Staff and Location
Location
We are located at 800 E. North Street, 2nd Fl. Greenville, SC 29601 in the First Citizens building.
Phone: (864) 235-6331
Fax: (864) 235-6326
Website: www.greenvillehousingfund.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Greenville-Housing-Fund/121103477533
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Deborah McKetty
Executive Director
Office: 864-235-6331
Deborah is a native of Greenville attending local Greenville County schools and the University of South Carolina. Ms. McKetty also received her Masters in Urban Planning from Texas Southern University. She has served as Vice President in several positions of Corporate and Community Affairs and Community Economic Development at national banks including the Chase Manhattan Bank and Wells Fargo. She also worked at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBA) where she managed the Affordable Housing Program.
Ms. McKetty has worked on regional and national collaboratives to improve the quality of life for low and moderate-income families. In Houston, Texas, Deborah worked with the Private Sector Initiatives and the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast to develop a capacity building initiative for community development corporations (CDCs). Those efforts led to the development of the Houston Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Today there are over 65 active CDCs revitalizing Houston’s older neighborhoods.
She has served as Project Manager for several key projects such as the FHLBA’s, Ten year Impact Study of the Affordable Housing Program and the development of a $1.5 million internet application for the Affordable Housing Program (FHLBAccess) which automated and streamlined the application process, the disbursement of funds, and monitoring compliance. In her role at FHLBA, Ms. McKetty managed a portfolio of over 1,000 affordable housing projects throughout the Southeast. She is a certified Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP) and a certified Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP).
In 2005 the United Way of Greenville County engaged Ms. McKetty to conduct a study to determine strategies to help further local affordable housing efforts. Several recommendations from The Affordable Housing Opportunity Assessment have been implemented including the development of a local housing trust fund- GHF. Deborah continues to work with the GHF Board to ensure that GHF becomes an important resource in the development of affordable housing in the Greenville community.
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John Corcoran
Assistant Director
Office: 864-235-6331
John comes to GHF with over 14 years of experience in development, consulting, real estate and finance, and he was formerly Vice President of Tax Advantage Group, Vice President of Mercy Housing and Vice President/Owner of Millennium Development Partners. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics from the University of Georgia. His responsibilities as Program Manager include working with financial institutions and partner agencies in the delivery of training and management of IDA accounts; supporting coordination of the Greenville Housing Network Advisory Committee; collecting information, tracking progress and reporting to relevant parties, funders and network partners; and conducting communications activities such information sharing across the state and on the website.
