Kathy
Roseth
Director of Porchlight
907 NW Ballard Way, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98107-0439
kroseth@sea-pha.org
http://www.sea-pha.org/residentinform/porchlight.htm
Since December 2000, Kathy
Roseth has served as the Director of PorchLight, a new housing services
center of the Seattle Housing Authority which opened in Ballard in December
2000. PorchLIght is designed to serve as the new front door to the housing
authority, which when it is fully established will offer streamlined
processing in a customer-service oriented environment. It handles admissions
to the housing authority's 6,500 units of public housing and 1,000 units
of senior housing, and it also administers the federal housing choice
("Section 8") rental voucher program which serves an additional 7,000
households.
Prior to accepting the position
with the Seattle Housing Authority, Roseth served as Executive Director
of the Lutheran Alliance To Create Housing (LATCH), an independent 501(c)3
housing development and management corporation constituted as a coalition
of 37 Puget-Sound area Lutheran congregations. Roseth was LATCH's first
staff person, beginning in 1991 with a budget of $12,000. By the end
of 2000 LATCH had a staff of 13, a budget of $750,000, and had developed
and was managing 130 units of low income housing in six properties in
Seattle and North King County, specializing in resident-managed rental
cooperatives for low income families. The most recent of these projects
is the HOPE VI redevelopment of a distressed public housing property,
Roxbury Village, in Southwest Seattle, in partnership with the Seattle
Housing Authority. LATCH also developed a major housing advocacy network
which deployed citizen advocates from its 37 member congregations. The
network effectively mobilized constituents in 20 of the state's 49 legislative
districts, and every district of the Metropolitan King County Council.
Roseth has a master's degree
in business administration from the University of Washington (1990),
and a master's degree in English language and literature, also from
the UW (1978).
