Led by U.S. Air Force veteran Dr. Xanthea Moore and strategist Ciara Suesberry-Roberts, the Houston partnership is creating furnished housing for veterans who need stability while preparing for what comes next.
For Dr. Xanthea Moore, veteran homelessness is not an issue she understands only through statistics, reports, or conversations with service organizations. It is part of her own story. The U.S. Air Force veteran and founder of MTW Home Health Care Agency knows what it means to serve the country and later find herself without stable housing. Years later, that experience has become part of the reason she is returning to veteran housing from a very different position. This time, she is helping create a place for another veteran to land.
“I know what it’s like to be a homeless veteran,” Moore said. “Now I’m doing my part with a brand new team, Berry Dynamic Agency, to reach back and pull other veterans up from their struggles.”
That mission is at the center of a new partnership between MTW Home Health Care Agency and Houston-based Berry Dynamic Agency. The two companies have formed an ongoing joint venture focused on developing residential housing opportunities for veterans, beginning with a furnished shared-housing program in the Houston area. The partnership brings together Moore’s experience in healthcare, operations, veteran relations, and resident support with Berry Dynamic’s work in business strategy, partnerships, financial management, communications, and growth.
The leadership structure was intentionally designed as a shared one. Moore serves as Co-CEO and Operations and Resident Relations Executive of the veteran housing joint venture, while Berry Dynamic Agency founder Ciara Suesberry-Roberts serves as Co-CEO and Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer. The title reflects their equal leadership of the housing venture, while Moore remains the founder and principal of MTW Home Health Care Agency and Suesberry-Roberts remains the founder and CEO of Berry Dynamic Agency.
For Suesberry-Roberts, the work is also deeply personal. She is the daughter of a decorated U.S. Army veteran who served for more than 25 years, and her father’s military career shaped the way she grew up understanding service, discipline, and responsibility. Long before she entered business or communications, she watched what a life of service required and saw how deeply military service can shape the person wearing the uniform and the family standing beside them.
That influence now gives her role in the veteran housing partnership a meaning that reaches beyond business strategy. Suesberry-Roberts grew up with a close view of the sacrifice, structure, and commitment that military life can demand. The opportunity to help build housing for veterans allows her to honor that legacy in a practical way while using the skills she developed in business, communications, and partnerships to support a community that has always been personal to her.
For Suesberry-Roberts, the work represents a different application of skills she has spent years using to help businesses and organizations grow. Berry Dynamic Agency’s work typically sits at the intersection of communications, business development, organizational structure, and partnerships. Its current focus is helping mission-driven organizations strengthen their foundations, develop the systems needed for growth, and build greater recognition for their work. With the veteran housing program, those capabilities are being used to build relationships with property owners, community organizations, veteran programs, and other groups that can help expand access to housing.
The partnership began with a simple concern: stable housing affects nearly everything else a person is trying to rebuild. A veteran may be looking for work, applying for benefits, attending medical appointments, addressing financial challenges, or preparing to live independently again, but each of those goals becomes harder when there is uncertainty about where that person will sleep. MTW’s Veteran Housing Program was created to provide a furnished, dependable residential environment where veterans can focus on those next steps without having to rebuild every part of their lives at once.
The current model provides furnished shared housing with utilities, Wi-Fi, and televisions included. Residents remain connected to their existing case managers, healthcare providers, veteran organizations, and other community resources rather than being asked to abandon the support systems already in place. The goal is not for MTW to replace those organizations. Instead, housing becomes one part of a larger network supporting the veteran.
That distinction matters to Moore. Her background in healthcare has given her years of experience seeing how health, finances, housing, and family circumstances can overlap. Her experience as a veteran adds another layer to that understanding. The program is being developed around dignity and stability rather than the assumption that every veteran who experiences homelessness has the same story or needs the same type of assistance.
Some residents may be transitioning from shelters or temporary living arrangements. Others may have income through employment, disability, or veteran benefits but still struggle to find an affordable and stable place to live. Women veterans, veterans with disabilities, and those who need continued coordination with outside providers may face additional challenges when looking for housing. For MTW and Berry Dynamic, the work begins with understanding the individual rather than reducing the person to a housing status.
The program also reflects a broader goal for the partnership. Moore and Suesberry-Roberts do not view the first home as the finish line. Their joint venture was established to pursue additional residential properties and housing opportunities as the program develops, with future expansion tied to the ability to maintain safe homes, responsible operations, and meaningful relationships with referral organizations and property partners.
The companies are also building relationships with organizations already working in veteran services rather than attempting to create an entirely separate support system. That includes veteran organizations, healthcare providers, case managers, housing programs, community organizations, and property owners. The intention is to create another housing option within the network that already exists around veterans in Houston.
The partnership is strengthened by the fact that both women arrive at the work with a personal connection to military service, though from different sides of that experience. Moore brings the perspective of a veteran who once faced homelessness herself. Suesberry-Roberts brings the perspective of a daughter who grew up watching her father devote more than two decades of his life to the Army. One understands firsthand what it means to need support after service, while the other understands how military service can shape a family’s values across generations.
For Suesberry-Roberts, that history makes the work especially meaningful. Her father’s example taught her that service is not simply a title or a period of employment. It is a responsibility that can continue long after the uniform comes off. In many ways, the veteran housing partnership is an extension of that lesson. The skills may be different, and the setting may have changed, but the principle remains familiar: when someone has served, there should be people willing to stand beside them when they need support.
Moore’s decision to speak openly about having experienced veteran homelessness gives the program its most personal reason for existing. She is not approaching the issue from the outside and asking veterans to trust that she understands. She has stood on the other side of the struggle.
Now, alongside Suesberry-Roberts and Berry Dynamic Agency, Moore is working to turn that understanding into something another veteran can walk through the door of.
The home itself may provide the bed, the furniture and the address. The larger hope behind the partnership is that stability gives veterans enough room to begin imagining what comes next.
