Washington Housing Conservancy
Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director
Economic Mobility
Year Founded: 2018
the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) is dedicated to tackling the systemic inequities in the affordable housing crisis through reimagining the role and influence of housing developers to promote, advance, and sustain the economic mobility of its residents. WHC is committed to preserving housing affordability where it does not currently exist for long-term, moderate to low income tenants of color, particularly Black tenants, of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) area. Leveraging their core strategies of inclusive property management, community-building & placemaking, and financial health development and wealth building, WHC is disrupting inequitable housing practices and empowering and connecting residents with resources they need to stay, work, and live in the DMV area. WHC is actively working to influence the national housing equity movement by partnering with others to adopt key elements of its model in different cities. Recent innovations like the organization’s Housing + Mobility Lab funded by TD Bank is one of the ways WHC is building a network of national stakeholders interested in adopting WHC’s model in their cities.
An alumnus of New Profit’s 2021 Catalyze Health Equity Catalyze Cohort, the Washington Housing Conservancy is led by Executive Director Kimberly Driggins, a nationally recognized expert who has an extensive background in affordable housing, urban planning, real estate development, and policy. Prior to her appointment at WHC, she previously served as Director of Strategic Planning/Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit’s Planning and Development Department and as Associate Director for Citywide Planning for the District of Columbia’s Office of Planning. Kimberly has a BA degree from Hampton University and an MPP from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She was awarded the prestigious Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015.
Kimberly Driggins
Executive Director
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