MHO Expands Affordable Housing Staff
Mountain Housing Opportunities (MHO) has expanded its affordable housing and community development staff.
Asheville native S. Antanette Mosley became the new Director of Resource Development on April 18. Prior to returning to Asheville, she practiced law in Atlanta, Ga., specializing in intellectual property, entertainment law, and general litigation. She also routinely handled pro-bono cases for clients including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Estate, victims of domestic violence, and organizations assisting homeless people.
In her new position Attorney Mosley will work with MHO’s board and staff to develop and implement MHO’s private fundraising strategy by expanding MHO’s relationships with individual donors, businesses, charitable foundations, and religious organizations. She will also have broad responsibility for MHO’s marketing and communications strategy, while Lisa Keeter will continue as Marketing and Communications Manager.
Mosley received her B.A. in psychology from UNC Chapel Hill and her J.D. degree from Georgia State University College of Law.
This past January Geoffrey Barton, a licensed architect specializing in multi-family housing and civic/cultural projects, was appointed MHO’s Manager of Architectural Services. He was previously the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow for MHO and the Asheville Design Center.
Barton’s work is grounded in community engagement processes and a commitment to environmentally responsible design. He works with MHO’s rental development department on the design and development of green, affordable apartment developments and also supports the organization’s Affordable Homeownership work by designing single-family homes, with a focus on energy efficiency and affordability for the homeowner.
Prior to joining MHO, Geoffrey worked at Van Meter Williams Pollack Architecture in San Francisco on multi-family affordable housing designs throughout the Bay Area. He received a B.A. from Wake Forest University in 2005 and his Master of Architecture degree from North Carolina State University in 2009.
Mountain Housing Opportunities is a nonprofit housing and community development corporation based in Asheville, established to build and improve homes, neighborhoods, communities, and lives, and to build hope and dignity in the people they serve. MHO serves more than 1,600 North Carolina residents each year in their programs of affordable housing development, home lending, apartment leasing and management, emergency home repair, and community revitalization. MHO is a member of the national NeighborWorks® America network.
Tying MHO’s growing staff to the organization’s expanding work, Executive Director Scott Dedman said, “Our Strategic Plan calls for us to meet more of the community’s housing needs by more than doubling our annual production of homes and home repairs over the next four years.” In 2015 MHO completed 112 new homes in Buncombe and Madison Counties and performed over 100 safety-related home repairs for low-income homeowners. The 2019 goal is to develop 230 or more homes and provide safety-related home repairs to at least 200 low-income homeowners each year.
