Our Story
“I don’t know what we do, but we have to find a new direction.” This call to action begins our story, when in 1969, Father Ben O’Connor ended a verbal account of his neighborhood’s challenges with this declaration.
New Directions Housing Corporation was born from the ecumenical efforts led by Father O’Connor at his parish, Saint William Church, a Roman Catholic congregation located at 13th and Oak Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. From this declaration came an organization, incorporated as a nonprofit in 1971, which has evolved into a tri-county service agency offering excellence in Real Estate Development, Asset and Property Management, Resident Services, Home Ownership Preservation, and Community Building and Organizing.
New Directions Housing Corporation serves Jefferson County, Kentucky, and Floyd and Clark counties in Southern Indiana. Its nonprofit community development strategies provide much-needed housing development, and today nearly 1000 families of low income live in the nonprofit’s rental housing. A robust resident services strategy creatively meets resident needs and encourages progress through four Youth Learning Centers, three Lifelong Learning Centers and its homeless shelter, Heverin House, one of our nation’s first established transitional shelters designed to serve single-parent families moving toward permanent housing. The agency’s follow up strategy further supports shelter graduates to ensure that permanent housing is attained and sustained.
In addition, New Directions delivers the region’s most comprehensive efforts in Home Ownership Preservation, including the volunteer-driven Repair Affair which annually links over 1,200 caring volunteers to elder or disabled home owners needing home repair help. Community Building & Organizing initiatives include The Neighborhood Roundtable, our board’s advisory group comprised of grassroots leaders and neighborhood association members.
New Directions is a member agency of Metro United Way and NeighborWorks®America, and is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity.
Our Mission:
New Directions Housing Corporation develops and maintains affordable housing and vital communities in partnership with neighborhoods and other stakeholders.
Our Vision:
Caring neighbors building community.
Executive Staff:
Joe Gliessner
Chief Executive Officer
Lisa Thompson
Chief Operating Officer
Gerald Tyrrell
Chief Financial Officer
Senior Staff:
Al Spotts
Director of Housing Development
Bridgette Johnson
Director of Property Management
Michael Gardner
Director of Home Ownership Preservation
Janice Hill
Management Information Systems Director
Amanda Sneed
Resident Services Staff Leader
Board of Directors
Art Baltes
Executive Committee
Service Department Associate
Republic Diesel
Adel S. Elmaghraby, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
University of Louisville
Nancy Fox
Secretary
Community Volunteer
Adam Hall
Executive Committee
Community Relationship Manager
Fifth Third Bank
Todd Harrett
Treasurer
Account Executive
Northern Continental Logistics
Robert Holmes
Executive Committee
President and CEO
Louisville Real Estate Development Co.
Jackson Jones
Attorney
Valenti, Hanley & Robinson
Jason Knoy
Sr. Analyst
Energy Efficiency Planning and Development
LG&E and KU LLC
Sharon Landrum President/Broker
Sharon Landrum Realty, Inc.
Robert Lewandowski
UPS Airlines - Worldport
Air District Engineering Manager
Jack McGill
Area Director Provider Network Operations
Humana, Inc.
Daro Mott
Deputy Director
Louisville Metro Government Operations
Dr. Tony Newberry
President
Jefferson Community & Technical College
John C. Pieper
Executive Committee
McCauley, Nicolas & Company, LLC
Beth Cress Rose
Real Estate Agent
Milestone Realty Consultants
Brad Schwandt
UPS Airlines
Director of Maintenance
Aircraft Maintenance & Engineering
Terry Singer, Ph.D.
Dean/Professor
Kent School of Social Work
University of Louisville
Jim Stammerman
Executive Asst. to the Chancellor
Ivy Tech Community College
Elizabeth Stith
Vice President
Community Volunteer
Louis Straub, II
Senior Vice President
Chase Bank
Councilman David Tandy
Louisville Metro Government
Jane Walsh
Strategy and Development
Network Center for Community Change
Bill Weyland
Board President
Managing Member
City Properties Group
Marita Willis
Imm. Past President
Vice President, Community Consultant
PNC Bank
Annual Reports
PDFs of the 2005 - 2011 Annual Reports
Financials
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