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Meet the National Housing Trust Team
Contacting NHT Staff:
Main Phone: 202-333-8931
Email: first initial plus last name @ nhtinc.org (e.g. Joe Smith= jsmith@nhtinc.org) Address: 1101 30th Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20007
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Laura Abernathy
| Public Policy Associate
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Gillian Ament |
Controller |
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Michael Bodaken |
Executive Director |
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Keiva Dennis |
Dir., NHT Community Development Fund |
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Josh Earn
| Program Manager, NHTCDF
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Hana Eskra |
Assistant Vice-President, NHT/Enterprise |
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Beverly Fanelli |
Director of Asset Management |
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Kara Frank |
Multifamily Housing Developer
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Toby Halliday |
Vice President, Public Policy |
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Shonda Howard
| Assistant to the President
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Maggie Johnston |
ICE Investment Coordinator |
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Tracy Kaufman |
Director, National Preservation Initiative |
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Scott Kline |
Vice President |
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Matt Latham
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Sustainable Development Manager
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Aimee McHale |
Assistant Vice President, NHT/Enterprise |
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Tina Marie Miller |
Asset Manager |
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John Morland |
General Counsel |
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Todd Nedwick |
Assistant Director, Public Policy |
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Rob Richardson
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Development Manager, HPI
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Joyce Siegel |
Staff Accountant |
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Andy Slettebak |
Dir., ICE Revolving Loan Fund |
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Devin Tucker |
Dir., Community Development Programs |
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Laura Abernathy, Public Policy Associate
Laura Abernathy joined the National Housing Trust in 2010 as the Public Policy Associate. In this role, Laura monitors and analyzes housing policy proposals on both the state and federal levels, paying particular attention to the ways in which policies address the preservation of affordable housing, the greening of the existing housing stock, and the transportation opportunities available to low- and moderate- income households. Her work also includes conducting data research and analysis of the affordable multifamily housing stock.
Prior to joining the Trust, Laura worked at the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies to promote affordable, suitable, and accessible housing throughout the state of Florida. While at Shimberg, she collaborated with faculty and graduate students from the University of Florida to develop a GIS based model to assess land suitability for affordable housing. She also contributed to publications analyzing Florida’s rental market, specifically noting the supply of and demand for housing for migrant fishermen and the homeless.
Laura holds a B.A. in Economics and English Literature from Franklin & Marshall College and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida, where she specialized in Housing, Community, and Economic Development.
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Gillian Ament, Controller
 Gillian Ament is the National Housing Trust Controller. She has served the Trust since 1993. Ms. Ament has a strong background in accounting and financial analysis. Her responsibilities include the development and maintenance of financial plans and policies for the three organizations as well as budgeting, cash management, preparation of monthly financial statements, coordination with the Board’s Audit & Finance Committee and compliance with all foundation and governmental reporting requirements.
In addition, Ms. Ament collaborates and assists Director of Asset Management on all property accounting and financial reporting of NHT/Enterprise’s portfolio and coordinates the audit process for all organizational and property audits and tax returns. NHT/Enterprise currently has ownership interest in 16 properties, comprising over 2,900 units. Ms. Ament reviews all audits and tax returns for these entities. As NHT/Enterprise acquires and preserves properties, Ms. Ament works closely with the development and asset management staff to track predevelopment expenses, construction budgets and the ongoing operation of each of these properties.
Previous to her employment at the Trust, Ms. Ament had over 12 years of experience in finance, fundraising, personnel, organizational management, and community organizing at a number of Washington area nonprofit organizations.
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Michael Bodaken, President
 Mr. Bodaken has been head of the Trust for over 13 years. Under his guidance, the Trust has become the primary national nonprofit intermediary dedicated to the preservation and improvement of affordable multifamily homes.
Mr. Bodaken is chiefly involved in administration, business planning, technical assistance and public policy. Mr. Bodaken has been directly involved in providing technical assistance to capable nonprofit organizations interested in purchasing affordable, multi-family housing developments.
To date, his efforts have involved the preservation of more than 20,000 affordable multifamily homes, requiring a combined acquisition and rehabilitation financing of over $1 billion.
He is a frequent moderator and panelist at regional and national housing conferences concerning the preservation of multifamily housing. He is proficient in investment, tax and legal matters concerning housing and community economic development.
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Keiva Dennis, Director, NHT Community Development Fund
 Keiva Dennis oversees the National Housing Trust Community Development Fund. As a loan officer, Ms. Dennis is responsible for underwriting and closing new loans, servicing the outstanding loan portfolio and coordinating and executing NHTCDF’s operations. She is also involved in strengthening existing relationships and developing new relationships with borrowers, lending partners and funders.
Prior to joining the Trust, Ms. Dennis was Assistant Vice President of Product Development at Deutsche Bank in New York where she was responsible for managing innovative Cash Management products for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Ms. Dennis has a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Yale School of Management and a B.S. from Cornell University.
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Josh Earn, Program Manager, NHT Community Development Fund
 Josh Earn returned to the Trust in 2010 after having spent the summer of 2009 refining NHTCDF’s green lending program. He manages the National Housing Trust Community Development Fund’s $10.6 million Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 that is being used to revitalize census tract 99.06 in the Marshall Heights Neighborhood of Southeast Washington DC. Mr. Earn also underwrites loans and develops lending products for NHTCDF.
Mr. Earn received a BA in Political Science and Religion from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. Prior to Business School, he ran Israel Policy Forum’s government relations program, supporting diplomatic efforts to achieve Middle East peace.
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Hana Eskra, Assistant Vice-President for NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation
 Hana Eskra serves as Assistant Vice-President for NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation. Ms. Eskra’s experience includes more than 15 years of affordable housing development consultation, financial feasibility and packaging, and project management services as well as housing policy analysis and implementation. Ms. Eskra has worked for both non-profit housing organizations and for local government and has an operational knowledge of nearly all aspects of affordable housing. She has been directly involved in the development of over $100 million of affordable multi-family and single-family housing units and has worked with local government officials to create housing policies and procedures that encourage the development of affordable housing in their communities.
In her previous position, Ms. Eskra was Acting Director of Miami-Dade County’s Office of Community and Economic Development. In that capacity, she managed 120 employees and oversaw a $400 million operating and capital budget that incorporated federal, state and local funding for affordable housing, including the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, CDBG, HOME, general obligation bonds and a local housing trust fund. She was responsible for creating and implementing local housing policies that integrated market conditions in Miami-Dade County with available resources.
Ms. Eskra has also worked as a technical advisor for a Florida state-wide affordable housing organization providing technical assistance and training to non-profits and local governments, was an affordable housing development consultant in Virginia, and was the Director of Real Estate for the Greyston Foundation, a non-profit community development corporation located in Yonkers, New York. As the Director of Real Estate for the Greyston Foundation, Ms. Eskra was responsible for all residential and commercial real estate development including rental housing for homeless and low-income families, housing and a medical center for people with HIV/AIDS, and commercial space for economic development activities. Several of Ms. Eskra’s projects were featured in a CBS 60 Minutes segment on the Greyston Bakery and the Greyston Foundation in January, 2004.
Ms. Eskra has a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and wrote her Master’s thesis on the low-income housing tax credit. She currently resides in Miami, Florida.
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Beverly Fanelli, Director of Asset Management
 Beverly Fanelli is responsible for administering NHT-E’s asset management program, overseeing a growing portfolio of affordable and market rate multifamily housing financed with various combinations of private activity bonds, low income housing tax credits, 501(c)(3) bonds, and market rate mortgages, along with Section 8 housing subsidies. Ms. Fanelli also has oversight of the resident services program.
Ms. Fanelli has over 20 years experience in the multifamily housing industry. She spent over eight years with a national real estate syndicator where she held several positions, including Assistant Vice President. While with the syndicator, Ms. Fanelli was part of the asset management department, which was responsible for a portfolio of over 375 market and affordable housing properties. Ms. Fanelli also spent over six years with an asset management firm where she was Vice President of Asset Management. During her tenure there, she was responsible for an affordable housing portfolio of approximately 315 properties (38,000 units) located throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, with an initial debt and equity acquisition value in excess of $1 billion. Ms. Fanelli also worked as Senior Asset Manager/Vice President for a HUD contractor that provided technical support for the Special Assistance Workout Team (SWAT). She also spent several years as a consultant and worked as a sub-contractor with several HUD contractors for the Departmental Enforcement Center and the Office of Multifamily Housing.
Ms. Fanelli’s areas of expertise include asset management, due diligence, market analysis, loan workout/modifications, financial analysis, and training. Additionally, her experience has resulted in a strong knowledge of HUD housing and its program requirements, along with a strong knowledge of the housing programs and requirements of various state housing finance agencies.
Ms. Fanelli has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from West Virginia University. She previously held a real estate brokers license with the State of Maryland.
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Kara Frank, Assistant to the Vice President
 Kara Frank joined the Trust in March 2006. Ms. Frank is responsible for performing financial feasibility analyses, evaluating due diligence materials, assessing financing options, preparing financing proposals and overseeing renovation on behalf of NHT/Enterprise.
Ms. Frank additionally provides support to NHT/Enterprise’s Board of Directors and Asset Management staff. Her duties include helping to convene and implement quarterly Board meetings, creating and producing NHT/Enterprise’s marketing materials, maintaining a revolving “critical dates” schedule for all NHT/Enterprise projects, maintaining and updating the NHT/Enterprise pipeline of project activities, and submitting all electronic project 2530’s to the US Department of Housing & Urban Development.
Ms. Frank graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in Political Science. She is a registered Notary Public licensed in the District of Columbia and is certified by the National Development Council as a Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP).
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Toby Halliday, Vice President for Public Policy
 Toby Halliday's work for the Trust involves the promotion of federal policies by Congress and HUD that facilitate the preservation and improvement of affordable rental housing. He also supports the Trust’s engagement with state and local governments to promote preservation and helps to coordinate the Trust's policy, development and lending activities.
Prior to joining NHT, Mr. Halliday was the Director for preservation activities at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). During his five year tenure, LISC committed $69 million in financing and provided technical support to over 100 preservation projects and over 12,500 affordable homes. He provided project-specific support to nonprofits purchasing affordable housing properties and developed technical guides on preservation for nonprofit developers. He speaks at preservation and housing conferences and provides training on preservation-specific issues. He has worked with nonprofit groups in both urban and rural communities, providing technical and financing assistance on affordable housing and other community development projects. He has also assisted local governments developing economic adjustment strategies and facility reuse plans for large closing military facilities.
Toby received a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Shonda Howard, Assistant to the President
Shonda Howard joined the Trust in May 2010 as the Assistant to the President, Michael Bodaken. She provides support to the National Housing Trust, National Housing Trust – Enterprise Preservation Corporation, NHT Community Development Fund and the Institute for Community Economics. Ms. Howard plays a central role working with all of the projects in support of our mission. Her other roles include managing the schedule and administrative matters for the President, organizing Loan and Board Committee meetings, invoicing borrowers regarding their loan payment schedules, drafting correspondence, ensuring various grant requirements meet compliance.
Prior to joining the Trust, Ms. Howard served in various administrative roles for government and nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC. She has completed coursework at Jacksonville University and Florida State University.
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Maggie Johnston, Investment Coordinator, ICE Revolving Loan Fund
 Maggie Johnston joined the Trust in July of 2008, during the transition period with NHT’s new affiliate, the Institute for Community Economics (ICE). Ms. Johnston serves as ICE’s Investment Coordinator for ICE’s Social Investment Fund, making her the primary point of contact for the almost 300 individual and institutional investors who participate in that fund. She also assists with ICE’s Revolving Loan Fund portfolio.
Prior to joining the Trust Ms. Johnston served as the Executive Director of HomeAid New York City and as the Director of HomeAid Northern Virginia for a combined five years. In 2008 she received the HAND Virginia Peters Non-Profit Friend Award in for her work with HomeAid Northern Virginia. She was appointed by the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax and Prince William County to a Task Force asked to write their respective 10-Year Plans to End Homelessness. Her work in the non-profit housing world combined with her past work in the homebuilding, real estate and lending industries brings more than two decades of experience to NHT.
Ms. Johnston serves on the board of Community Lodgings, Inc. which serves homeless and at-risk families and children in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Tracy Kaufman, Director, National Preservation Initiative
 Tracy Kaufman joined the National Housing Trust in March of 2003 as the Director of the National Preservation Initiative. Ms. Kaufman is responsible for the development and implementation of this three year public policy initiative that is raising awareness of and developing innovative solutions to the complex issues surrounding the preservation of affordable, multifamily housing.
Ms. Kaufman has more than 13 years of experience in housing and community development, including managing U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development contracts, researching and writing nationally published reports and analysis, designing and implementing social marketing and outreach campaigns and planning and coordinating presentations, workshops and conferences.
Prior to joining the Trust, Ms. Kaufman was a Project Manager at Aspen Systems Corporation where she was responsible for managing HUD’s University Partnerships Clearinghouse. In that capacity, Ms. Kaufman coordinated grantee and technical assistance meetings, peer reviews, national conferences, newsletters, and publications. She was also responsible for a Web site that received more than 70,000 hits each month. In her capacity as Project Manager, Ms. Kaufman prepared budgets and tracked the financial status of the contract, managed full time project staff as well as freelance personnel, generated new business opportunities, and ensured that all projects meet deadlines, budgets and high quality levels.
Ms. Kaufman also worked for the National Low Income Housing Coalition -- analyzing affordable housing needs data, interpreting information, and disseminating data in user-friendly formats. She developed information for advocacy campaigns and educational purposes at the national, state, and local levels, produced high-profile analytical research and quantitative projects, and responded to media inquiries and data requests from constituents. Ms. Kaufman has authored or co-authored more than a dozen reports, guides and newsletters on affordable housing issues. Ms. Kaufman earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Tufts University and a Masters in Public Policy from the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University.
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Scott Kline, Vice President
 Scott L. Kline serves as Vice President of the National Housing Trust and NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation. During his 19 year career in the affordable housing arena, Mr. Kline has financed over $350 million of affordable housing. Mr. Kline oversees acquisition efforts on properties throughout the United States. He manages a staff of 9 who are responsible for coordinating all aspects of multifamily acquisitions, redevelopment, and preservation of affordable housing. The process involves evaluating physical conditions of properties, negotiating purchase terms with owners, developing project concepts and finance plans, coordinating due diligence processes, securing multiple layers of financing, developing resident service programs, and asset management. Often these efforts are on behalf of resident groups and/or nonprofit organizations interested in acquiring properties to preserve them as affordable housing. Other times they are done on behalf of NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation.
Mr. Kline also develops and conducts workshops for resident councils, non-profit developers, city/state housing officials, and state finance agencies. Frequent topics include: federally assisted housing and means for preservation; federal policy and programs which impact preservation of federally assisted housing; considerations for evaluating the acquisition, redevelopment and preservation of affordable housing; and approaches to financing the acquisition, redevelopment and preservation of affordable housing.
Prior to joining the staff of the Trust, Mr. Kline served as the Director of Multifamily Programs for the Arlington Housing Corporation (AHC), a private, nonprofit, developer of affordable housing in Arlington, VA. He coordinated a staff of 5 in all facets of multifamily real estate development, including acquisition, finance, design, construction and/or rehabilitation, marketing, and asset management.
Mr. Kline has experience working with a variety of financial executions and programs including: private activity tax-exempt bonds; 501(c)(3) fixed rate and lower floater bonds; Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits; Section 8; Community Development Block Grant funds; HUD Rental Rehabilitation Grants; HOME loans; state housing trust funds; Standard & Poor's Affordable Housing Program; Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Program and Community Investment Program; CRA loans; bargain sales; foundation grants; capital grants and 241(f) loans through the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act; and a variety of seller take-back arrangements.
Mr. Kline earned an M.B.A. in Real Estate Development and Urban Planning, from American University, Washington, D.C. and also holds a B.B.A in Finance, from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Mr. Kline is President of the board of the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (H.A.N.D.) serving the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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Matt Latham, Sustainable Development Manager
 Matt Latham participates in the Trust's real estate development operations conducted by NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation. Mr. Latham is responsible for working with development staff and design and construction teams to identify "best practices" in environmentally appropriate renovation and retrofitting of multifamily housing, incorporating green design in the renovation of new NHT/Enterprise projects, retrofitting of existing projects in NHT/Enterprise's portfolio, identifying programs and funding sources for green repairs and improvements, and overseeing renovations. He assists with the development and implementation of policy engagement to enhance the availability of resources for green retrofitting of affordable multifamily housing all over the U.S by sharing best practices from projects and regulatory challenges to implementing desired green improvements.
Prior to joining the Trust, Mr. Latham was a Project Consultant at Sustainable Design Consulting, providing LEED technical assistance and process management services to architects and developers on over 30 commercial, neighborhood development, multi-family residential, and institutional projects in the DC metropolitan area. Mr. Latham also worked for D&R International, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) contractor, managing the ENERGY STAR® Home Sealing program outreach to utilities and energy-efficiency program sponsors (EEPS). In addition, he co-led energy-efficiency financing initiatives on behalf of government clients.
Mr. Latham is actively involved with several industry trade associations, including Urban Land Institute’s Young Leaders Group, Congress for New Urbanism’s DC Chapter, and U.S. Green Building Council’s National Chapter Region. Designated by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), he became a Certified Sustainable Development Professional (CSDP) in October 2008. In May 2007, he completed the Northeast Home Energy Rater Training Systems (NEHERS) course to become a certified HERS Rater. Mr. Latham has been a LEED Accredited Professional since September 2006.
Mr. Latham has a Masters of Real Estate Development from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont.
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Aimee McHale, Asst. Vice President
 Aimee McHale is responsible for performing financial feasibility analyses, evaluating due diligence materials, assessing financing options, preparing financing proposals and overseeing renovation on behalf of NHT-E.
Ms. McHale’s has over 10 years of community development and affordable housing experience. Prior to coming to NHT-E, Ms. McHale was a Project Manager for Universal Companies, a Philadelphia based community development corporation, and was responsible for the development of rental and single-family affordable homes. There, Ms. McHale successfully secured over $6 million dollars for new construction and renovation residential development. As Housing Associate for a Baltimore neighborhood development organization, Ms. McHale identified and pursued vacant and blighted properties for acquisition and renovation and organized streetscape improvements in residential districts. In San Francisco, Ms. McHale coordinated and administered Welfare to Work programs, implemented programs at innovative, supportive housing sites for formerly homeless adults, and facilitated the process of tenant relocation for a building slated for renovation.
Ms. McHale has a Master in Community Planning from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.A. from the State University of New York, College at New Paltz. Ms. McHale was also a Center for Urban Redevelopment Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania from 2004-2006.
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Tina Miller, Asset Manager
 Ms. Miller is responsible for owner oversight activities and cooperative board development for a portfolio of 6-9 properties in the Washington D.C. area. The portfolio consists of a mix of affordable cooperatives, including limited equity, Section 8, and affordable restrictions.
Her primary responsibility is the development and implementation of a program to provide asset management services along with a cooperative board training program for a group of six cooperatives. She also handles asset management for three other rental properties.
In addition to typical asset management tasks, Ms. Miller is developing a guidebook for each cooperative that will also include policy and procedures on a variety of asset management and ownership tasks. She prepares monthly reports in Spanish and English to the coop boards, with an analysis of year to date operations, accounts receivable updates on replacement reserves, marketing efforts, work order status, etc. She also coordinates annual audits and reviews of all insurance at the cooperatives. Finally, she provides oversight for all bidding for rehab improvements and repairs.
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John Morland, General Counsel
 John Morland, Legal Counsel for the Trust, provides legal support and management assistance to the NHT-E. Mr. Morland develops, negotiates, and drafts grant requests, as well as related legal documents. He provides legal, negotiation, and strategy support for affordable housing acquisition and preservation projects. He also assists the President in developing products and business opportunities that support the affordable housing preservation mission of NHT-E.
Mr. Morland brings more than twenty-five years of legal and business management experience to the Trust. For more than ten years prior to joining the Trust, Mr. Morland served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Freddie Mac, where he headed a department of more than forty dealing with a broad variety of issues and disputes involving the multifamily real estate and mortgage industry. He was also responsible for a multimillion dollar outside counsel/vendor budget. Included in a docket averaging more than a thousand matters were multifamily workouts and foreclosures, sales of foreclosed real estate, vendor contract matters, lead paint and other environmental cases, title and mortgage insurance issues, mortgage-backed securities matters and a variety of general corporate issues.
Mr. Morland also has had a broad spectrum of other corporate, government and law firm experience. He served as Associate General Counsel for Amtrak, where his responsibility included major construction projects, vendor contracting, computer service contracts, employment disputes, and train wreck litigation. Prior to Amtrak, Mr. Morland served as Senior Trial Counsel in the Civil Division/Commercial Branch of United States Department of Justice where he litigated, among other things, Ginnie Mae mortgage fraud and mortgage servicer bankruptcy matters. After a clerkship on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Mr. Morland also worked as an Associate at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson on general corporate matters, banking regulation, and railroad real estate valuation proceedings.
Mr. Morland earned his law degree from George Washington University, where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif, and he earned a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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Todd Nedwick, Asst. Director, National Preservation Initiative
 Todd Nedwick serves the National Housing Trust as the Assistant Director for Public Policy. He conducts nationwide research and analysis of successful affordable housing preservation policies and practices, writes policy briefs and memos, and coordinates NHT’s communications activities, including monthly newsletter and website.
Since passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Mr. Nedwick has focused on implementing an advocacy strategy to influence the use of housing and energy resources. In particular, he has worked closely with national and state partners to develop and advocate best practices for using Weatherization funds in multifamily homes. His recent work also includes an analysis of at risk federally subsidized affordable housing near transit and strategies to preserve this essential housing resource.
Mr. Nedwick began working in the field of community development for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s Affordable Housing Preservation Initiative. He conducted a number of analyses for local LISC offices in order to assess the risk to the affordable housing stock posed by the impending expiration of federally assisted housing contracts. His work included using G.I.S. mapping software to understand the geographic impact of impending housing subsidy expirations.
Mr. Nedwick has two years of strategic communications experience, having served as a Program Manager for Radiant Communications. He has worked closely with many non-profit organizations to help them improve their advocacy strategies.
Mr. Nedwick holds a B.A. in Political Science from American University and a Masters in Public Policy with a concentration in Social Policy from the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy.
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Rob Richardson, Development Manager, Housing Preservation Initiative
 Rob Richardson is Development Manager of the Housing Preservation Initiative (HPI). The HPI is an initiative of the National Housing Trust (NHT) and Enterprise Community Partners to facilitate affordable housing preservation in key locations across the country by focusing the development, data, policy and lending capacity of these national organizations. Mr. Richardson is responsible for evaluating projects and managing their financing and redevelopment. As part of this work he performs financial feasibility analyses, develops redevelopment strategies, evaluates due diligence materials, prepares financing proposals and develops new financing tools.
Mr. Richardson has 15 years experience in housing, real estate and economic development. While at the Trust, Mr. Richardson closed on over $130 million in financing for the purchase of over 2,300 affordable apartments located in Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, Illinois and Washington, DC. The Texas preservation transaction was the largest 501(c)(3) housing bond transaction ever completed in the state at the time, totaling over $80 million in financing and introducing new affordability to a portfolio of 7 market rate properties. His broad range of expertise includes experience with HUD’s project-based Section 8 properties, Section 236 IRP decoupling, tax exempt bonds, low income housing tax credits, historic tax credits, low floaters, interest rate swaps, the Green Communities Initiative, the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Program, and state and local government financing programs.
Previously, Mr. Richardson was Director for Project Development at the Anacostia Economic Development Corporation, where he provided due diligence, project management and financing for the acquisition of a $14 million, 100,000 square foot neighborhood shopping center. He has experience in financial structuring, developing pro formas, preparing funding proposals and managing development teams for multi-family, office and retail development projects.
As a Program Officer at a citywide nonprofit intermediary, he provided project planning, analysis and technical assistance to community-based nonprofit organizations, and provided strategic planning assistance to the District of Columbia government. He has also worked for the Joint Center for Housing Studies, and the Chase Manhattan Bank Community Development Corporation, where he designed their nonprofit loan program and developed a guide for new housing investors.
Mr. Richardson graduated from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government with a Master in Public Policy degree and a concentration in Urban Community Development and Finance. He also graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University.
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Joyce Siegel, Staff Accountant
 Joyce Siegel has served as the National Housing Trust Accountant since 2002. Prior to her employment, she had provided financial consulting to the Trust as of 1999. Ms. Siegel has thirty years of experience in accounting and financial analysis, nearly all of which is in the real estate, development, construction, property management, tax credit and multi-family housing arenas. She provides backup and compliance support to the Controller for the National Housing Trust, NHT Community Development Fund, and NHT/Enterprise Preservation Corporation.
As NHT/Enterprise acquires and preserves properties, Ms. Siegel provides construction accounting and cash management for renovation projects. She works closely with the development team to identify and resolve deal structure issues, with a particular emphasis on issues that impact the flow of funds at the project and organizational levels. She is the lead liaison for cost certifications and reviews each report in detail. She also works with development team members to transition property accounting from contract of sale through acquisition and into asset management.
Ms. Siegel graduated summa cum laude from Southeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.
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Andy Slettebak, Director, ICE Revolving Loan Fund
 Andy Slettebak joined the staff of the National Housing Trust (NHT) in December 2008 as the Director of the Institute for Community Economics (ICE) Revolving Loan Fund. In October 2008 ICE became a controlled affiliate of NHT and relocated to NHT offices in Washington, DC. The ICE Revolving Loan Fund maintains a focus on lending to community land trusts and other forms of shared equity homeownership.
Prior to joining NHT, Andy was the Economic Development Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of Grants for the Campaign for Human Development (CHD). During his 15 years with CHD, Andy expanded a $1.3 million annual grant and loan program to support job creation and asset development in low-income communities. He redesigned CHD’s national grant process for increased staff productivity and due diligence, and led the restructuring of four programs to enhance staffing ratios and capacity building with local partners.
Andy has worked as a Development Consultant and Construction Manager in Baltimore, Maryland, as the Senior Architect for the City of Boston’s Public Facilities Department, and as a home improvement contractor and carpenter in Washington, DC and Columbus, Ohio.
Andy received a Masters in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ohio State University.
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Devin Tucker, Director of Community Development Programs
 Devin Tucker has over ten years experience in the non-profit sector. His work experience has focused on strategic planning, program development, volunteer leadership, organizational development, and fundraising. Devin has worked with the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Assets for Independence (AFI) program. AFI is the largest asset-building demonstration in the country. Devin worked with grantees on developing effective individual development account (IDA) programs that incorporated best practices for financial literacy and the earned income tax credit (EITC). He worked for several years as a technical assistance coordinator and consultant for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Networks initiative, which supports self-sufficiency and resident leadership opportunities in public and multi-family housing. The initiative facilitates asset-building, bridges the digital divide, promotes workforce development, and offers out-of-school activities in low-income communities. Devin has worked across the country on behalf of the initiative and has focused on brokering strategic partnerships with local foundations and community colleges to support workforce development, mentoring, and youth programs. He currently serves as the Community Service Chair for the Harvard Club of Maryland.
He has degrees from St. Louis University, Harvard, and has a certificate in Executive Non-profit Management from Georgetown University.
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