Kimberly Driggins
@driggs16dc.bsky.social
Urban planning & development in DC & Detroit; Loeb Fellow 2016; expertise in placemaking & affordable hsg; love of arts & culture, travel, soccer; Jersey girl
Back in my happy place! #islandvibes #goodlife
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Back in my happy place! #islandvibes #goodlife
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WHC CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social will speak at the Bisnow Multifamily Annual Conference (BMAC) East 2025 on December 2. Join her for the latest insights on housing affordability, policy & development. Use code JOINME for a discount! Register here: app.ingo.me/q/ej9oq
#washhousing #affordablehousing
#washhousing #affordablehousing
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
WHC CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social will speak at the Bisnow Multifamily Annual Conference (BMAC) East 2025 on December 2. Join her for the latest insights on housing affordability, policy & development. Use code JOINME for a discount! Register here: app.ingo.me/q/ej9oq
#washhousing #affordablehousing
#washhousing #affordablehousing
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WE ARE GOING TO THE SEMIS 😮💨
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
WE ARE GOING TO THE SEMIS 😮💨
YES! @washingtonspirit.com win in PK’s. Let’s go!! 👊🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
YES! @washingtonspirit.com win in PK’s. Let’s go!! 👊🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
Let’s go @washingtonspirit.com! We got this
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Let’s go @washingtonspirit.com! We got this
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WHC CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social was featured on “Beyond the Resume: Fixing the Formula in DC Affordable Housing” a panel on the challenges & opportunities shaping DC's #affordablehousing, hosted by Jackson Lucas & Robinson+Cole. Watch their full discussion on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw26...
October 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
WHC CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social was featured on “Beyond the Resume: Fixing the Formula in DC Affordable Housing” a panel on the challenges & opportunities shaping DC's #affordablehousing, hosted by Jackson Lucas & Robinson+Cole. Watch their full discussion on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw26...
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Spending over 30% of household income on housing qualifies as rent burdened. But according to the latest research from @harvard-jchs.bsky.social the “30% metric” underestimates how many renters are actually burdened by housing costs once you include food, healthcare, childcare, transport, & more:
Rising rents are leaving households with less income to pay for other needs, and inflation has also pushed up the cost of other necessities.
Our new paper finds that, after paying for rent, 2/3 of working-age renters cannot afford their basic needs.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/two-thi...
Our new paper finds that, after paying for rent, 2/3 of working-age renters cannot afford their basic needs.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/two-thi...
Two-Thirds of Working-Age Renters Struggle to Afford Basic Needs
Rising rents are squeezing renter households, leaving them with less residual income to pay for other needs. But inflation has also pushed up the cost
www.jchs.harvard.edu
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Spending over 30% of household income on housing qualifies as rent burdened. But according to the latest research from @harvard-jchs.bsky.social the “30% metric” underestimates how many renters are actually burdened by housing costs once you include food, healthcare, childcare, transport, & more:
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Join @driggs16dc.bsky.social, CEO of the Washington Housing Conservancy, on Tuesday, September 30, for a webinar hosted by Jackson Lucas discussing affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, and equitable development. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Join @driggs16dc.bsky.social, CEO of the Washington Housing Conservancy, on Tuesday, September 30, for a webinar hosted by Jackson Lucas discussing affordable housing, neighborhood revitalization, and equitable development. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Looking forward to CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social participating in the upcoming webinar "Fixing the Formula in DC Affordable Housing" on 9/30 for the next Jackson Lucas Webinar series, in partnership w/ Robinson+Cole: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@trueground.bsky.social #affordablehousing
@trueground.bsky.social #affordablehousing
September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Looking forward to CEO @driggs16dc.bsky.social participating in the upcoming webinar "Fixing the Formula in DC Affordable Housing" on 9/30 for the next Jackson Lucas Webinar series, in partnership w/ Robinson+Cole: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@trueground.bsky.social #affordablehousing
@trueground.bsky.social #affordablehousing
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Washington Business Journal featured an op-ed by @driggs16dc.bsky.social outlining beneficial housing policy reforms and expressed support for the Mayor’s RENTAL ACT legislation currently before DC Council. Read here to learn more about proposed TOPA and RENTAL Act reforms:
Viewpoint: D.C. housing rules are holding nonprofit housing providers back - Washington Business Journal
Without reforming TOPA and eviction policy, D.C. will continue to lose ground when it comes to housing production, a local nonprofit CEO says.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Washington Business Journal featured an op-ed by @driggs16dc.bsky.social outlining beneficial housing policy reforms and expressed support for the Mayor’s RENTAL ACT legislation currently before DC Council. Read here to learn more about proposed TOPA and RENTAL Act reforms:
June 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Destination Crenshaw will be the largest Black public art project in America once completed. The org's head Jason Foster talks to @nextcity.org about the project as “a holistic kind of community change using art” in honor of Crenshaw and LA. Listen to the podcast episode here: bit.ly/3ZqOHW2
This “Unapologetically Black” Monument Is Already Changing Los Angeles
Podcast: Next City checks back in on the development of a mile-long reparative monument led by Destination Crenshaw.
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May 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Destination Crenshaw will be the largest Black public art project in America once completed. The org's head Jason Foster talks to @nextcity.org about the project as “a holistic kind of community change using art” in honor of Crenshaw and LA. Listen to the podcast episode here: bit.ly/3ZqOHW2
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NEW: The way we behave outside is changing - we're not lingering with others in public spaces. Dr. Salazar-Miranda's research says we lose "broader social function of cities" "when people treat sidewalks and paths as primarily just corridors to get from point A to point B.” Read more: bit.ly/4dtJtyI
The Lost Art of Lingering
The way people behave in public space is changing. A researcher has ideas about why — and how we can make cities more equitable and…
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May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NEW: The way we behave outside is changing - we're not lingering with others in public spaces. Dr. Salazar-Miranda's research says we lose "broader social function of cities" "when people treat sidewalks and paths as primarily just corridors to get from point A to point B.” Read more: bit.ly/4dtJtyI
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Last night at the ULI Washington's 2025 Awards for Excellence, WHC's CEO
@driggs16dc.bsky.social joined in celebrating Impact Award honorees Deborah Ratner Salzberg from Uplands Real Estate Partners and Jodie W. McLean from EDENS. Congrats to you both! washington.uli.org/events/award...
@driggs16dc.bsky.social joined in celebrating Impact Award honorees Deborah Ratner Salzberg from Uplands Real Estate Partners and Jodie W. McLean from EDENS. Congrats to you both! washington.uli.org/events/award...
May 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Last night at the ULI Washington's 2025 Awards for Excellence, WHC's CEO
@driggs16dc.bsky.social joined in celebrating Impact Award honorees Deborah Ratner Salzberg from Uplands Real Estate Partners and Jodie W. McLean from EDENS. Congrats to you both! washington.uli.org/events/award...
@driggs16dc.bsky.social joined in celebrating Impact Award honorees Deborah Ratner Salzberg from Uplands Real Estate Partners and Jodie W. McLean from EDENS. Congrats to you both! washington.uli.org/events/award...
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2/2 And if you enjoyed the lecture, join us Friday, April 18 @gsd.harvard.edu for our half-day symposium where practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and researchers will discuss types of social housing and new efforts to create affordable, high-quality homes.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/evo...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/evo...
The Evolving Landscape of Social Housing in New England
In response to persistent and worsening housing affordability challenges, the idea of “social housing” has been gaining momentum across the US. In
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April 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
2/2 And if you enjoyed the lecture, join us Friday, April 18 @gsd.harvard.edu for our half-day symposium where practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and researchers will discuss types of social housing and new efforts to create affordable, high-quality homes.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/evo...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/calendar/evo...
Love this! @gsd.harvard.edu #LoebFellows are well represented.
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/a...
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/a...
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
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April 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Love this! @gsd.harvard.edu #LoebFellows are well represented.
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/a...
At the Architecture Biennale, the U.S. Says ‘Come Sit by Me’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/a...
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Within the next decade, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in American history. As people live longer, their housing needs will change, but our current housing market is ill prepared for this demographic shift. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
America’s Housing Market Is Failing Older Adults
As the US population ages, more older adults are facing severe cost burdens, with limited ability to move or maintain their homes.
www.urban.org
March 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Within the next decade, older adults will outnumber children for the first time in American history. As people live longer, their housing needs will change, but our current housing market is ill prepared for this demographic shift. @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...
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"Cost burdens are spreading from the poorest households to working folks, particularly young people... a full-time job is no guarantee that housing will be affordable."
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Number of those burdened by rental affordability hits record high — Harvard Gazette
Public policy expert discusses possible ways to cut costs amid national housing crunch
news.harvard.edu
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
"Cost burdens are spreading from the poorest households to working folks, particularly young people... a full-time job is no guarantee that housing will be affordable."
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
An interview with our director Chris Herbert about the country's rental affordability crisis.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
The Dark Prophet of Car-Clogged Cities
70 years before congestion pricing landed in New York City, Lewis Mumford sounded the alarm on letting automobiles run amok in America’s downtowns.
www.bloomberg.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Seventy years ago, the writer Lewis Mumford warned that urban highways would be a disaster:
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
“This is pyramid building with a vengeance, a tomb of concrete roads and ramps covering the dead corpse of a city.”
He was right. We just didn’t listen.
Me, in CityLab 🧵
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So happy to see this finally done! Proud to be a neighbor to these new JPers! #bospoli
The solution to homelessness is a home. Proud of all the partnership & persistence across City, State & community to make today’s ribbon cutting possible!
New Jamaica Plain housing project supports people coming out of homelessness
Largest permanent supportive housing project in Boston comes online.
www.wgbh.org
March 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
So happy to see this finally done! Proud to be a neighbor to these new JPers! #bospoli
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"That’s the hope for this hike, especially after a couple of rough weeks, just going out and breathing & remembering that things might be falling apart but there’s still a lot of beauty as well."
#nature #publicspace #diversity @jeanuh.bsky.social @briankaiser.bsky.social @nytimes.com
#nature #publicspace #diversity @jeanuh.bsky.social @briankaiser.bsky.social @nytimes.com
Connecting With Nature to Celebrate Black History Month
Outlandish, a hiking store and adventure group in Brooklyn, is one of several organizations on a mission to encourage Black people to spend time outdoors.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"That’s the hope for this hike, especially after a couple of rough weeks, just going out and breathing & remembering that things might be falling apart but there’s still a lot of beauty as well."
#nature #publicspace #diversity @jeanuh.bsky.social @briankaiser.bsky.social @nytimes.com
#nature #publicspace #diversity @jeanuh.bsky.social @briankaiser.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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One of the best players in baseball history: The Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays!
As a teenager, he joined the Negro American League.
He played 23 seasons in the @MLB, playing for the New York Giants and the New York Mets.
Willie was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
As a teenager, he joined the Negro American League.
He played 23 seasons in the @MLB, playing for the New York Giants and the New York Mets.
Willie was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
February 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
One of the best players in baseball history: The Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays!
As a teenager, he joined the Negro American League.
He played 23 seasons in the @MLB, playing for the New York Giants and the New York Mets.
Willie was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.
As a teenager, he joined the Negro American League.
He played 23 seasons in the @MLB, playing for the New York Giants and the New York Mets.
Willie was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.