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NAHRO Faculty
The following individuals currently make-up NAHRO's active faculty. NAHRO faculty
are selected based on their demonstrated expertise in the public housing and
community development fields, program development, and facilitation and training
skills. Individuals interested in applying to be a NAHRO Faculty member should
e-mail nahro@nahro.org.
Pat Arnaudo
Pat Arnaudo is the Director of Special Projects for Professional Development. Most recently, Pat served as Senior Consultant for Nan McKay and Associates. Before that she served in HUD for over 30 years in various managerial capacities, most recently as Director of Management and Occupancy in the Office of Public and Indian Housing. She was responsible for crafting many of the Rental Housing Income Integrity Improvement Program (RHIIPs) initiatives, including Rental Integrity Monitoring (RIM), EIV and rent reform. She was also responsible for many of the policies emanating from QWARA and the subsequent QWARA training. During the time Mr. Ramirez was Deputy Secretary she was responsible for significantly improving Multi-Family Tenant Characteristics (PIC-50058) reporting which helped to get HUD off the high risk list. Pat received numerous HUD and local organization awards, including two Vice President Gore “Hammer” Awards. She has a BA and MPA from the University of Michigan.
Joseph Albanese
Mr. Albanese is a veteran NAHRO faculty member with expertise in a wide
variety of housing and community development and management areas. He
has served his community for more than 12 years as a housing commissioner
and was Vice President for Commissioners of the Mid-Atlantic Regional
Council of NAHRO. Mr. Albanese owns his own consulting firm and brings
30 plus years of hands-on experience in addressing a variety of business
and human resource issues. In addition, Mr. Albanese has consulted with
a number of troubled and/or distressed housing agencies and has worked
as an Interim Executive Director. Mr. Albanese is also a certified Lead
Base Paint consultant/trainer and is included in the National Lead Base
Paint Listing.
Dwayne Barrett, Esq.
Dwayne is a partner with Reno & Cavanaugh. He is a tax lawyer who concentrates on affordable housing and community development matters. He has expertise in low income tax credit developments, tax-exempt bond financing, tax increment financing, Gulf Opportunity Zone Tax Credits, new market tax credits, CDBG funds, HOME funds, and mixed finance transactions. He has practiced law in Nashville for fifteen years. Barrett earned his law degree at the University of Tennessee and an LL.M. in taxation at the University of Florida.
Veronica Bukowski, M.S., PHM, CPBA, CPVA
Veronica Bukowski, MS, PHM, CPBA, CPV, began her career with the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). After leaving HUD, she worked
as Director of Training for eight years at the National Association
of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO) in Washington, DC. Ms.
Bukowski researched and designed NAHRO's PHM training and wrote the
original text. In 1981, she and Richard H. Stanton co-founded an organizational
development and performance enhancement practice. Over the years, the
organization has worked closely with NAHRO in the design and development
of professional training programs and conference presentations. For
NAHRO, Ms. Bukowski conducts PHM, Public Housing Occupancy, Eligibility,
Income and Rent Calculation, Earned Income Disallowance (EIR), and Supervisory
and Management Seminars. Additionally, she provides technical assistance
for NAHRO clients.
Bernice B. Butler
Bernice teaches the NAHRO Public Housing Manager Seminar. She has vast experience in both private and agency assisted and affordable housing. She is knowledgeable of and has first-hand experience with the execution of complex real estate development strategies including mixed-income and mixed financed developments, creation and implementation of new and innovative real estate-related finance programs and program management. She has proven expertise in market-rate and subsidized/affordable housing development; conventional public housing, Section 8 existing and moderate rehabilitation program management and other HUD/Federal, state and local housing and community development program management; as well as property acquisition and assemblages, structuring/restructuring real estate projects, and project management.
Bernice’s career includes work at the City of Jacksonville Department of Housing and Urban Development as manager and director of various programs, including Manager of 1200-unit inner city project; Project Manager of CDBG program; Director of Housing Assistance Programs, CEO for 5,000 unit Section 8 voucher program and started first Section 8 Mod Rehab program in State of Florida. Additionally, she was the Project Director who was responsible for direct management of CDBG and HOME funded housing rehabilitation programs and sub grantee housing and economic development programs in City of Dallas, TX and City of Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Sharon Carlson, SPHM
Sharon began her career in housing in 1982, and has served as Executive Director for Belding Housing Commission in Michigan since 1995. She currently serves at the national level as Vice-President for Member Services for the North Central Regional Council of NAHRO, is Senior Vice-President of Michigan NAHRO, and is a current board member for the Michigan Housing Directors Association. As a NAHRO faculty member, Sharon is certified to deliver training in Commissioners’ Fundamentals, and The Commissioner’s Guide to Understanding and Monitoring Agency Operations and Programs. Sharon received her BSBA degree from Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Larry Cobb
Larry is a member of the national NAHRO Professional Development Committee and Vice Chair of the NAHRO Board of Ethics and Credentialing Trustees (having served as Chair, and Member, Board of Governors 2005-07). He is currently executive director of the non-profit Ethicsworks, co-founded in 1999. For more than two decades Larry served NAHRO at agency, chapter, regional, and national levels. He was also NAHRO's Vice President –International from 2003-05, serving as a plenary speaker at international conferences on housing, community development and professional ethics.
His work on professional ethics began in an earlier academic career (earned degrees include BA economics, MA philosophy, PhD government), from which he retired in 1997 as professor emeritus (public administration) from the Pennsylvania System of Higher Education at Slippery Rock University. Overlapping was a decade as a Commissioner on the Butler County (PA) Housing and Redevelopment Agencies. As an ethicist, he combined the academic and the practical by serving on NAHRO's Task Force on Evaluation and Credentialing.
With an eye toward the future, he's active in the American Society for Public Administration Ethics Section and in the re-accreditation of Masters of Public Administration programs at universities around the United States.
Peggy Cobb
Peggy is a professional educator active in housing and community development through her work in the MARC-NAHRO Regional Service Office, ethics training for commissioners, as well as volunteering at NAHRO conferences. She has service on many not-for-profit boards including Ethicsworks, a training organization, Mercer County (PA) Habitat for Humanity, the Butler County (PA) YWCA (with responsibility for its senior housing program), and the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees. She also won election to the West Liberty Borough Council.
With expertise in teaching and learning (BS, MS, and Principal and other administrative certifications), Peggy taught for 25 years in Grove City (PA) School District and capped her elementary level teaching career with a stint as intermediate school principal. Also, she was recognized in 2008 by receiving the PASR John J. Dillon Award for state-wide leadership and service.
Peggy co-teaches with her husband, Larry Cobb, the NAHRO Ethics for the Housing and Community Development Commissioner Seminar.
Damian Colden, P.E.
Mr Colden, P.E. is a professional engineer with more than 13 years of
experience in facilities engineering management. He has experience in
facilities maintenance management, environmental program management,
project management for construction and facilities support contracting,
process automation and systems training. In 1995, Mr. Colden founded
his own firm concentrating on providing integrated engineering management
solutions to modernization and maintenance issues. He presents NAHRO's
Managing Maintenance in Public Housing, Asset Management for Affordable
Housing and Uniform Physical Inspection Seminars and is busy developing
a stand alone Preventative Maintenance curriculum for NAHRO Professional
Development. Additionally, Mr. Colden's services are invaluable as a
team member on NAHRO's Consulting Teams.
Lisa Coleman, PHM
Lisa Coleman is the Director of Production and Quality Assurance for Professional Development. She is a former housing program director with the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County, Maryland and has 13 years of experience in the housing industry. She administered the Housing Choice Voucher Program, as well as, Mainstream, Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Rental Allowance Program, Permanent Housing for Homeless Persons with Disabilities and Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership. In addition to Housing Choice Voucher Program Administration, she supervised the Admissions and Occupancy for all programs including Public Housing. Mrs. Coleman is a NAHRO faculty member currently teaching Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation for Public Housing/Housing Choice Voucher, Public Housing/Housing Choice Voucher Occupancy and Section 8 (HCV) Housing Management, Earned Income Disallowance and Family Self-Sufficiency.
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D., PHM
Dr. Crewe has more than 22 years of experience in the field of public
and assisted housing, and she currently serves as NAHRO's Vice President
for Professional Development. In her current position as assistant professor
of social work at Howard University in Washington, DC, she is working
to establish the linkages between the housing and social work professions.
Dr. Crewe serves as the principal investigator for two grants that focus
on welfare reform and is the author of the HUD funded dissertation "Unchallenged
and Unmotivated: An Ethnographic Study of Sanctioned Welfare Reform
Recipients in Federally Subsided Housing," which focuses on the
interactions of housing and welfare reform.
Bill Crown, SPHM
Mr. Crown is the retired Vice President of Housing for Knoxville's Community
Development Corporation, the housing authority in Knoxville, Tennessee.
His responsibilities included the administration of more than 4,000
units of public housing as well as the Rental Assistance program of
approximately 2,200 units. He had been with the housing authority for
more than 26 years. Mr. Crown has been involved in the public housing
industry on a national level serving as a consultant to HUD and the
Urban Institute on matters of administration and funding, and as a long-term
member of NAHRO's National Housing Committee. Before joining the housing
authority, he taught undergraduate management courses at the University
of Tennessee while earning a masters degree in organizational psychology.
Ellis Henry, SPHM, SHM, CPPO
Mr. Henry has over 20 years experience in governmental procurement, contract administration and construction management, with more that 10 years in public housing administration as modernization and development director, deputy and executive director. He is certified as a professional public buyer and professional purchasing officer from the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing. Mr. Henry has been a university professor since 1992.
Richard A. Leco
Richard Leco has been in the Housing and Community Development industry for over 30 years. He served as an executive director for twenty-four years, a town administrator and as a Deputy Office Director for Congressman Barney Frank. He is presently managing partner for D&V Associates, LLC., a public housing consulting firm. He has served over 18 years on the Board of Commissioners for the North Attleboro Housing Authority and has served as President of New England NAHRO and twice as the National NAHRO Legislative Network Chairperson. For NAHRO, he conducts the Capital Fund Program (CFP) Seminar. Mr. Leco holds a B.A. from Curry College where he has taught Government classes, as well as teaching at Bryant University. He holds a masters degree from Harvard University.
Jules Lefkowitz
A member of the NAHRO faculty since 2001, Jules Lefcowitz has worked
in the facility management and construction industry as a trades person,
construction business owner, project manager, owner's representative,
and program manager for more than 25 years. He has integrated this succession
of experiences into a consulting practice that serves nonprofit developers,
public housing agencies, condominium associations, and property management
companies. Mr. Lefcowitz assembles facility plans, project specifications,
project bid packages, and project contract documents. He also performs
project management for clients. In addition to his consulting practice,
Mr. Lefcowitz writes about construction and property management issues
in regional and national publications. He also provides training to
organizations wishing to develop their own facility planning and construction
management capacity.
Kenneth N. Love
Mr. Love is the Vice President of Business Development for the Constellation Energy Corporation in St. Petersburg, FL and president of Innovative Consulting Services. Ken has fourteen (14) years of public housing experience, five years as an Assistant Director of Housing and six years Director of Facilities Maintenance. He has been a Certified Section 8 Inspector for more than seventeen (17) years. He has been a NAHRO Faculty member for more than 13 years conducting training sessions in Housing Quality Standards Inspections, Public Housing Assessment System, and Uniform Physical Condition Standards (UPCS) Inspection protocol. Mr. Love has more than 35 years of government, public and private sector training experience. His career spans from quality control, construction management, facilities management and energy conservation. He has in-depth knowledge of training development, maintenance management and procurement policy and procedure. He understands the dynamics involved in operation and management of the PHA (including Asset Management), the important role of inspections in the occupancy cycle, how inspections affect an agency's SEMAP and PHAS scores.
Larry Loyd
Larry has served at the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel County in the position of Executive Director since 1991. Anne Arundel County is a metropolitan county of approximately 500,000 residents situated between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC. Prior to his tenure there, he spent time in the public and private sector in North Carolina. Larry has completed almost 40 years of service in the housing industry. He served as the President of the Maryland Association of Housing and Redevelopment Agencies (Maryland NAHRO), and held the position of Vice-President of the NAHRO Housing Committee. Currently, Larry is the President of the Middle Atlantic Regional Council of NAHRO and also serves on the NAHRO Board of Governors. His professional commitment to NAHRO allowed him to serve as a delegate for NAHRO ventures in Israel and China. Larry has also served as a delegate for NAHRO to the Tri-Country Conferences in Vancouver, British Columbia and Edinburgh, Scotland. Larry is a member of Lambda Alpha International, and holds his Certified Property Management (CPM) Certification with the Institute of Real Estate Management. For a number of years, Larry has conducted Workshop for Executive Directors Seminar for NAHRO. Participants favorably comment that he is knowledgeable, experienced and that he effectively shares information with the students.
Terry Madigan, SPHM
Mr. Madigan began his housing career in 1981 and is currently the Executive
Director of the East Hartford Housing Authority, in East Hartford Connecticut.
He has 20 years of Public Housing experience and serves as the Vice
Chair of the National NAHRO Professional Development Committee. He has
a well-rounded background in the Modernization and Maintenance field,
from both the administrative and mechanical viewpoint.
Clifton Martin, PHM, SPHM and Real Estate Sales License (MD)
Clifton Martin is the Deputy Executive Director of the Anne
Arundel County Housing Commission in Maryland. He has been working at
the Commission since 1993, with a focus on Management, Operations, and
the Housing Choice Voucher Program. He supervises over 40 staff persons
and oversees the daily operations of four departments. Mr. Martin was
a Property Manager for Oxford Realty Services and American Property
Management prior to his tenure at the Housing Commission. He is a NAHRO
faculty member currently teaching Public Housing Occupancy, Section
8 Occupancy, Sharpening Your Skills: A Housing Manager's Workshop, Workshop
for Executive Directors, Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation, and
Earned Income Disallowance. Additionally, he has assisted NAHRO with
on-site technical assistance and developed personalized training for
housing agencies in Bradenton, FL, Covington, KY and for various state
chapter conferences throughout the U.S.
Julie McGovern, Esq.
Julie S. McGovern is a Member whose practice focuses on public housing regulatory issues, HOPE VI and mixed-finance transactions, rural lending, and affordable housing. She has a thorough understanding of public housing funding streams such as Operating, Capital, and HOPE VI Funds, both on their own and when used in conjunction with local loan programs for rental and homeownership developments, FHA insured financing, bonds, Federal Home Loan Bank’s affordable housing program, low income housing tax credits, and rehabilitation tax credits. She also has extensive experience in advising PHAs on the structuring and use of public housing affiliates, procurement, and conflict of interest issues. Julie is experienced in managing all aspects of a mixed-finance transaction from negotiation of the development agreement through multiple phased closings for rental and homeownership units and through regulatory issues arising in the operation of mixed finance developments.
Ken Miller
Ken Miller was born in Brooklyn; his first home was a public housing project in Canarsie. Ken grew up on the San Francisco peninsula and graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara. He moved to Tacoma to be a welfare rights organizer in VISTA and then led a dozen organizing projects including a tenants rights effort in Salishan - now the site of a HOPE VI revitalization. After managing and planning a variety of human service programs Ken joined the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, beginning a two-decade career that included strategic planning for business units and staff groups, acquisition analysis and new product development. For the past seven years he’s developed single- and multi-family homes in the Tacoma area. Ken is a commissioner of the Tacoma Housing (and Community Development) Authority. Active locally and nationally he’s served as national chair of the American Leadership Forum and on the boards of organizations in human services, the arts and environment. He has been on the faculty of the Institute for Organization Effectiveness (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) and appeared at conferences in the U.S. and Europe for groups including the Conference Board, the Council on Foundations, the Reputation Institute and the Public Affairs Council. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Association Management, the Journal of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and BoardSource among others. Ken’s book - Bringing Values to Life: How to Manage Reputation as an Asset - will be published in 2009.
Dennis Mobley, SPHM
Mr. Mobley began his career in housing in 1972 as a research analyst
with the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. After 12 years of specializing
in site-based finance, he served as Vice President of the National Center
for Housing Management and was responsible for heir privately-owned
Section 8 management portfolio. Since 1990, he has provided training,
consulting, and technical assistance to LHAs and others including NAHRO.
His NAHRO training repertoire includes PHAS, Capital Fund Program, and
Asset Management. He has also assisted in the development and delivery
of NAHRO's SPHM seminar and special on-site trainings, and often lectures
at NAHRO conferences. In addition, he is the creator of a number of
NAHRO spreadsheet software products including Budget Assistant©
which is currently being used by over 200 LHAs around the country.
Dennis Morgan
Dennis Morgan is a Senior Associate at D L Morgan & Associates.
He has provided technical assistance and training on SEMAP, Housing
Quality Standards, Screening and Terminations, Lease Enforcement, Admission
and Occupancy, Section 8 Administration, Housing Choice Voucher Homeownership,
Moving to Work, Consortia, Relocation, PHAS, and the PHA Plan. Mr. Morgan
also teamed with other senior members to co-author the Public Housing
Admission and Occupancy Guidebook, Voucher Homeownership Guidebook,
Consortia articles and other publications. Mr. Morgan has more than
30 years experience in the public housing industry, including six years
as Executive Director of Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority in Toledo,
Ohio, and serving in executive positions in two Florida PHAs for 23
years - including 16 years at the Orlando Housing Authority and seven
years as Executive Director of the Deland Housing Authority. He conducts
Eligibility, Income and Rent Calculation, Occupancy, HQS, UPI, and Sharpening
Your Skills Seminars for NAHRO. He authored NAHRO's PH Eligibility,
Income and Rent Calculation Resource Manual and the Earned Income Disallowance
Workbook. Additionally, Mr. Morgan works with NAHRO in providing technical
assistance to individual agencies across the country.
Ronald Oldham
Ron Oldham is a consultant in management services for providers of affordable housing and association management. He has worked with troubled housing authorities, has served in interim positions (Interim Director of Property Management & Community Services for Tacoma Housing Authority, July-December 2005), and has developed training curricula for housing managers and most recently commissioners under NAHRO’s professional development system. He participated in the writing and editing of “Lessons Learned: A Public Housing Guidebook” for the U.S. Department of H.U.D. in 2000. He currently serves as Director of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of NAHRO, an association of housing authorities and community development organizations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Prior to his consulting career which began in 1999, Ron worked for the Seattle Housing Authority for over 30 years, serving in a variety of management positions including Manager, Area Administrator, and Director of Housing Management. His last position with SHA was Deputy Executive Director.
Matt Pesce, P.E.
Matt Pesce, P.E., is an energy & facilities consultant with 18 years of experience in performance measurement, equipment & system design, commissioning, and capital & strategic planning.
He provides strategic and engineering consulting and decision support to federal and state agencies and private sector clients in energy management, renewable and green building technologies, efficiency and load reduction options, and performance contracting. His work has included demand response program development for Con Edison and Southern California Edison; strategy development for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program; and High Performance School standards implementation and business process improvements for Rhode Island Department of Education.
Mr. Pesce has worked with numerous housing authorities as an owners representative for performance contracts, assisting them to plan projects, select ESCOs, and perform contract negotiations, independent commissioning, and measurement & verification. He has also assisted housing authorities to complete projects without an ESCO and to aggregate smaller agencies under a single procurement.
Stan Quy
Stan Quy joined the NAHRO Professional Development faculty in 2010 following a 35-year career with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This included service in the latter part of his federal career as the Acting Regional Director for the HUD Kansas City Regional Office and the State Director for the Nebraska HUD Office. Upon retirement in 2007, he became an Adjunct Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the Metropolitan Community College, teaching graduate level courses in public administration and nonprofit management and undergraduate classes in business administration. He has been a contributor to consulting work completed by the UNO Center for Organizational Research and Evaluation. He also became the Principal in The Organizational Leadership Edge consulting firm, which provides training and technical assistance in strategic planning, capacity building, board leadership, policy formulation, marketing, and human resources management. Stan is designing three NAHRO courses that will be launched in 2010 in the areas of marketing, customer responsiveness, and advanced strategic planning and management.
Reflecting his interest in life-long learning and professional development, he is currently completing his dissertation for a Ph.D. in Business with a specialization in nonprofit organization and management. Earlier Masters’ degrees were completed in Urban Planning and in Leadership. He also studied several summers at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. Stan is on the Board of Commissioners for the Douglas County (NE) Housing Authority and is Chair of the DCHA Board Policies and Strategic Planning Committee. He is also a member of the NAHRO National Committee on Professional Development and is a member of the NAHRO North Central Executive Board. Stan has professional affiliations with the American Society for Training and Development, the American Society of Public Administrators, and Toastmasters International. In 2007, the Nebraska NAHRO Chapter recognized Stan with an appreciation award for his many years of outstanding dedication and service to affordable housing in Nebraska.
Dave Shaffer
Dave Shaffer is a consultant with over 25 years of experience specializing in the areas of procurement, contract administration, Capital Fund program administration and Native American housing program management. In addition to providing training and consultant services to public housing agencies, Dave also serves as the Executive Director for an umbrella Indian Housing Authority, serving 9 tribes in southern California and as Capital Fund Manger for a number of public housing agencies. Prior public housing experience includes 14 years at the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority where he served as the Director of Development and Modernization.
Dave has been associated with NAHRO professional development since 1998 serving as a trainer for Procurement Basics, Advanced Procurement, Capital Fund Program Management, Resident Leadership I and II and Grant Writing. He has also been instrumental in the development of NAHRO course curriculum and training manuals.
Alyce Terry, SHM
Alyce Terry, CHM, SHM, has trained, developed specialized programs and
provided consulting for U.S. housing agencies and U.S. Territories for over
eighteen years. She brings over twenty years of Section 8 expertise to NAHRO
HCV presentations. Ms. Terry is equally knowledgeable regarding public housing
occupancy issues. Currently, she presents SHM, Section 8 Occupancy, SEMAP, Voucher
Mastery, Section 8 Budgeting, Section 8 and Public Housing Eligibility and Rent
Calculation, and Earned Income Disallowance Seminars for NAHRO. In addition
to conducting training, Ms. Terry also works with NAHRO to provide technical
assistance to individual agencies.
William "Bill" C. Thorson
Mr. Thorson retired from the Senior Executive Service at U.
S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in October 2007 after over
35 years of Federal service. Mr. Thorson is a highly experienced executive in
a wide range of issues involving public housing program administration and public
housing agency (PHA) operations. In addition, he specializes in organizational
reengineering and troubled/near troubled PHA recovery. Among his key positions
at HUD, Mr. Thorson served as the Executive Administrator of the Housing Authority
of New Orleans and the Director, Office of Capital Improvements, where he managed
the Capital Fund and Capital Fund Financing Programs (CFFP). In addition, Mr.
Thorson was one of a number of key managers selected to develop the Real Estate
Assessment Center, including the UPCS inspection system and PHAS. Mr. Thorson
has trained extensively on the public housing Capital Fund, CFFP, PHAS, UPCS,
maintenance, procurement, and energy performance contracting. Currently, Mr.
Thorson is a consultant, providing assistance to PHAs and contractors.
Jane C. W. Vincent
Jane C. W. Vincent has been an active member of NAHRO since 1980, currently serving on the Board of Governors as Vice President and Chair of the International Committee. She has been a member of NAHRO�s Faculty since 2005 in addition to serving as adjunct faculty for the University of Delaware.
Jane has worked for over 30 years in the housing and community development industry, both in the public and private sectors. She has worked for an urban county and served as the lead appointed official overseeing housing and community development for an urban city. She is sole proprietor of The Vincent Group, specializing in affordable housing market research and support to non-profits and housing authorities. Her consultancy includes training and strategic planning services.
Jane also currently serves as Senior Vice President for Development for the Delaware Community Foundation, where she is responsible for all development and marketing of a $230 million philanthropic organization serving the state of Delaware.
Jane received her Masters and undergraduate degrees from the University of Delaware. She is a licensed Realtor in Delaware. Jane serves on many boards, including as a commissioner to the Wilmington Housing Authority�s nonprofit subsidiary, the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, the Delaware Housing Roundtable, and the Downtown Wilmington YMCA.
Martin Walsh
Martin Walsh is an associate with Reno & Cavanaugh. Martin represents housing authorities as well as non-profit and for-profit developers across the country in redevelopments involving HOPE VI, public housing capital funds, federal low income housing tax credits, new markets tax credits, tax exempt bonds, HOME funds and other public and private sources of development funds. Martin has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to the DC bar and Pennsylvania bar.
Joy C. West, Esq.
Ms. West has more than twenty years of experience as an attorney and has handled a diverse range of cases. Over the course of her career, she has developed an impressive range of experience in the practice of law, legislation representation and procurement. She has provided technical assistance in the area of procurement to public housing agencies designated as troubled by HUD and has experience in handling urban problems including fiscal policy, airport development, community development, public and assisted housing, transportation, environment and census adjustment. She also has experience in providing technical assistance to HOPE VI sites in the area of community and supportive services (CSS). Ms. West established her own professional services corporation in 1987.
Deborah Wilson
Deborah Wilson has been working in the government housing industry for over 25 years. She has served as Executive Director of the Ferndale Housing Commission, in Ferndale, Michigan, for the past 22 years overseeing various facets of both Public Housing and the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. She is the current President of the Michigan Chapter of NAHRO and the President of the Michigan Housing Director’s Association. She also serves on the board of the North Central Regional Council of NAHRO. During her tenure as President of Michigan NAHRO, Deborah had the privilege of working with NAHRO to pilot a Commissioner Fundamental Training Program that allowed for training to be held at various PHAs throughout the State of Michigan. She has served as faculty for NAHRO for the past 1 ½ years and provided Commissioner Fundamental Training approximately 13 times in less than a year. As a certified UPCS Inspector and a certified Lead Based Paint Inspector and Risk Assessor, she has also provided inspection and risk assessment training for the Michigan Housing Director’s Association.
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