Joe Heaphy has worked on affordable housing policy and development issues for more than twenty-five years and is well respected within the nonprofit and community development sectors. Before creating Ethos Development Partners, he was Vice President of Real Estate Development for the Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO), a nonprofit social services agency that serves Detroit, Wayne County and Oakland County, Michigan. In this position he worked to develop permanent supportive housing for those with special needs. While at NSO, Joe led the $50 million redevelopment of the Michigan Bell Building, which now provides 155 units of permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless individuals, and serves as the service and administrative headquarters for NSO.
Lana Manaweil Zaghmout is Vice President at Ethos Development Partners. Prior to joining Ethos, she served as the Inclusion and Business Opportunity Manager for the City of Detroit’s Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity Department where she developed programming for the Mayor’s Executive Order 2016-1, Community Benefits Ordinance Agreements, Casino Hiring Agreements and Tax Abatement Employee Hiring provisions. Prior to that she was the Occupied Properties Program Manager for the Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA). At the DLBA she developed and implemented programs for Detroiters to gain and maintain homeownership through initiatives such as the Buy Back Pilot Program and the Occupied Non-Profit Program. She has also worked as Senior Policy Analyst for Detroit City Council and as Finance/Program Officer for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. She is an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Larson Center for Leadership Cohort 2018 graduate. She graduated from Wayne State University Law School in 2012 and from Wayne State University in 2009 with a B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in Political Science.
Alan Fehsenfeld has been Development Manager at Ethos Development Partners since 2022. Prior to joining Ethos, he was a development professional at Hope Network in Grand Rapids, where he was part of a project team involved with affordable housing projects. Alan has a background in finance and received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in finance from the University of Indiana. Alan lives in Newaygo, Michigan and volunteers with Truenorth Community Services.
Elizabeth Luther is Development Manager at Ethos Development Partners. She joined the team in January 2024, bringing fifteen years of housing, planning, and community development expertise. Elizabeth is driven by equity, justice, learning, and purpose. She is engaged in strong business, philanthropic, and nonprofit networks, and is a resourceful leader and manager, skilled in directing complex, mission-driven projects from concept to completion in pursuit of long-term results. Prior to joining the team at Ethos, Elizabeth designed and directed the Equitable Development Initiative at national CDFI Capital Impact Partners, supporting real estate developers of color with training, technical assistance, and project financing, resulting in over 300 program alumni across six national markets and providing over $50 million in loans and grants to support multifamily, mixed-use, and affordable housing projects to date. At Detroit-based Michigan Community Resources, she designed engagement strategy and processes for Detroit Future City public planning process. Elizabeth chaired the Detroit CDFI Coalition policy committee from 2018 to 2019, and currently serves on the board for Midtown Detroit, Inc. She holds a master’s degree of Urban and Regional Planning from the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan (2009), a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2022), and her undergraduate alma mater is the University of Notre Dame.
Anne Osmer is a licensed real estate salesperson with more than twenty years of experience in real estate development and marketing. She manages back-office operations and marketing initiatives for Ethos.
Gary Scheuren is principal of a development management and consulting practice, assisting clients in assembling and managing real estate development projects. An accomplished professional with over twenty-three years of experience as a practitioner of construction and real estate development management, Gary is a true collaborator who develops essential strategic partnerships to facilitate successful project outcomes. He has experience in managing projects at all stages, performing financial feasibility analyses for potential development projects through financial closings. He has provided developers and other clients with the project conceptualization, budgeting, financial assembly, pre-development due diligence management, coordination of subsidy programs, construction monitoring and closeout activities. Most of Gary’s work has been in sectors of the industry that focus on developing affordable housing and on the redevelopment of properties. Gary has close working relationships with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA), Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC), and the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). He has direct experience working with the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, including with Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), MSHDA Financing, Historic Tax Credits, CDBG & HOME funding, Michigan Community Revitalization Program (CRP), private equity, and commercial and private lending. Gary also served as the contracted Programs Director for the Michigan Historic Preservation Network (MHPN), managing the activities of the MHPN Tax Credit Investment Program and the MHPN Preservation Fund. During his tenure he managed the investment in over $110 million of Michigan tax credits. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Prior to starting his consulting practice in 2009, he served as Project Executive at The Christman Company, a Michigan-based construction management firm, specializing in commercial, institutional and historic preservation projects.
Joanne Candela has a long history of providing accounting and financial consulting to nonprofit organizations and developers in the low-income housing tax credit industry. She spent several years bringing projects in Pontiac and Detroit through closing, construction and into placed-in-service status. Most recently this included the $50 million Michigan Bell Building redevelopment in Detroit that received an award for having the “Most Complex Financial Structure.” Joanne had previously spent a decade in public accounting at Deloitte and Touche and has owned her own accounting and financial services business for over twenty years.
Matt Kosciow is the owner of MK Consulting, providing consulting and tax services to real estate developers with projects involving tax incentives such as Historic Tax Credits, New Markets Tax Credits, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and Opportunity Zones. Matt has over 20 years of public accounting experience, including twelve years as a senior tax manager in Plante Moran’s Housing and Community Development Solutions Group. Matt’s responsibilities include consulting on real estate transactions involving the syndication of tax credits, preparing financial projections and entity/transaction structuring, performing annual financial statement assurance services and Historic Tax Credit and Low Income Housing Tax Credit cost certifications, and general accounting and bookkeeping such as preparing financial and tax information for annual tax returns. Matt received his undergraduate degree in Actuarial Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1998, and achieved a Master of Science in Professional Accountancy from Walsh College in 2001. Matt has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Michigan since 2004.
Dawna Morse has more than fifteen years of experience in the field of economic and affordable housing development. She specializes in project management, policy development, regulatory compliance, and project financing. Her work spans the United States and includes municipalities, nonprofit service providers, for-profit and nonprofit housing developers, and Community Land Trusts. She holds a master’s degree in Business Management and Strategy, a B.A. in Education, and a Housing Development Finance Professional (HDFP) certification.
