Bob Davis
Executive Director
Bob Davis has been Executive Director of the Housing Authority for sixteen years. Prior to joining the Housing Authority, Bob was an executive with a company that built and sold manufactured housing. Bob’s experience also includes several years of development management with the King County Housing Authority. His career in housing began thirty five years ago with the Citizens Housing and Planning Council of New York, the New York City Office of Management and Budget and the New York City Department of City Planning.
Duane Leonard
Associate Executive Director and Director of Finance
Duane Leonard has extensive experience in public sector finance including working at the Washington State Auditor’s Office and the City of Tacoma. Duane served on the Washington State Treasurer’s Local Government Investment Pool Advisory Committee from 1997 to 2003. During his fifteen years at the Housing Authority, Duane has overseen the finances of the agency as it grew from approximately 1,600 vouchers and 830 housing units to over 3,000 vouchers and 2,000 units of housing.
Rickie Bates
Director of Administrative Services
Rickie Bates has worked at the Housing Authority for almost three decades and has seen the agency grow from ten employees to over seventy. Rickie built the human resources department from the ground up and has extensive experience developing policies and procedures to maintain a safe, fair and productive workplace. Rickie also brings a wealth of housing knowledge to her position at the Housing Authority. Before working in Administrative Services, Rickie was a housing coordinator in the Section 8 department.
Pam Frost
Director of Accounting
Pam Frost has nineteen years’ experience in the accounting and finance fields working in a variety of industries. Pam came to the Housing Authority in 2008 with proven experience improving and streamlining processes resulting in significant savings for her employers. At one Fortune 500 company Pam worked for, her coordination of a payment process change and savings initiative produced a $3.5M annual savings to the company.
Steve Kehler
Director of Asset Management
Steve Kehler has three decades of experience working in construction, maintenance and property management of multi-family housing. His experience includes establishing a new property management company. For the last fifteen years, Steve has utilized his background to improve asset management functions at the Housing Authority. Steve formed the asset management department to streamline functions by combining all of the staff who works in HASCO property management.
Manu Morgan
Director of Tenant Based Assistance
Manu Morgan has widespread knowledge of housing assistance programs through her two decades of work in the Tenant Based Assistance department. Manu utilizes her previous experience working in the medical field with seniors, developmentally disabled persons, and head injury patients to help develop programs and policies that meet the needs of special populations. Manu works with other partner agencies in the county to address homelessness issues. Specifically, she helped develop a pilot project called “Wrap Around Drug and Alcohol Project for Homeless Families” to address homelessness issues in families with chemical dependency.
Ann Schroeder Osterberg
Director of Development, Policy and Programs
Ann Schroeder Osterberg has thirty years of experience in public and nonprofit affordable housing development. During her eighteen years at the Housing Authority, she has overseen development of over 1,600 multi-family rental units and initiation of HASCO’s manufactured housing preservation, homeownership and service-enriched housing programs. Prior to joining the Housing Authority, she served as Executive Director of Plymouth Housing Group, a nonprofit based in downtown Seattle that owns and manages housing for very low-income and homeless individuals.