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5-Year Impact Report: Inspire. Innovate. Impact
Preserving housing affordability and promoting economic mobility in the DC-region The Washington Housing Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your investment helps us expand our work. Your gift is 100%...
Creating Communities of Belonging
When Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) began in 2018, our overarching goal was to preserve rental units in neighborhoods facing development pressure and keep them affordable to prevent displacement, especially for the “missing middle,”...
Spring Tree Planting at Hamilton Manor
Spring is here in the DMV. It brings with it warmer weather and longer days. Blooming flowers and high pollen counts. Spring is a season of renewal and a great time to plant trees. Trees add beauty and promote both mental and physical...
Creating Dr. King’s Beloved Community
This week we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day honoring the civil rights leader’s legacy and vision for a more just, equitable and inclusive world. For me, remembering Dr. King this year has had particular resonance. We live in a...
WHC Featured in HUD Article
Washington Housing Initiative (WHI) and the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) have been featured in a recent article by HUD’s PD&R Edge Home that spotlights WHI’s and WHC’s unique approach to maintaining affordability through...
WHC Hiring Social Impact Coordinator
JOB DESCRIPTION – SOCIAL IMPACT COORDINATOR Our Social Impact Mission Established in 2018, the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that disrupts housing market forces to prevent displacement and...
2024 Highlights – Donate to Support WHC Today!
As 2024 comes to a close, CEO Kimberly Driggins is humbled to reflect on five incredible years with the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC). It has been an honor for her to lead this organization working to make the housing system work...
WHC Interview on Health Affairs Podcast
WHC's Executive Director Kimberly Driggins was recently interviewed on Health Affairs' Research & Justice for All podcast. What will it take to reinvent an equitable housing system? LISTEN to Kimberly in conversation with Dr. Rhea...
A Note of Gratitude from the Washington Housing Conservancy
Five years ago, when Kimberly Driggins joined WHC as its first executive director, the organization was nearly a year old and barely more than an innovative and powerful idea. What was particularly compelling was its vision for how to...
WHC Welcomes Trevor Brown to Board
2024 marks WHC’s sixth year and Kimberly Driggins' fifth year as Executive Director. As WHC enters our next phase of impact, we’re excited to pursue new avenues of growth and opportunity. A critical part of this new journey is a recent...
Welcome Destiny Delaware to WHC
WHC Welcomes Social Impact Program Manager WHC is excited to announce a new addition to our staff. Destiny Delaware joined WHC in September as the new Social Impact Program Manager. With a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and a Master’s in...
WHC Playground Build with Monumental Sports & Entertainment and Kaboom!
Playground Build with Monumental Sports and Entertainment and Kaboom! Earlier this month, just in time for the new school year, with our partners KABOOM! and Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation, and more than 125 volunteers,...
WHC Awarded New Profit Build Investment Grant
Washington Housing Conservancy Receives $1.5 Million from New Profit To Grow and Scale Its Innovative Approach To Advance Housing As a Pathway to Opportunity and Prosperity Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) has been selected to receive...
The Housing Crisis: A Key Issue Driving Voter Decisions in the 2024 Election
The lack of affordable housing in the DMV and in communities across the nation looms large as a political issue in this election cycle. Several studies this year highlight the frustration and angst in voters’ minds about the housing...
Happy Summer and WHC 2024 Highlights
June brings the summer solstice, longer, light-filled days. I can’t believe it’s already midyear. As I reflect on our work at Washington Housing Conservancy, I am buoyed by the traction we are getting around our model and our thought...
WHC in 2024 Spur Local Catalogue
We are proud to announce that Washington Housing Conservancy has been selected as a trusted and critical small nonprofit in the Greater Washington region! Congratulations to our peer nonprofits, who we’re excited to meet and partner with...
Housing and Mental Health
Housing and Mental Health May is National Mental Health Month, a valuable moment to discuss the link between mental health and housing. In recent years, the issue of high rent and unaffordable housing has become a prominent concern in...
Fair Housing: Inclusive, equitable and affordable
Fair Housing: Inclusive, equitable and affordable Fifty-six years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act, a landmark civil rights legislation that made it unlawful to discriminate in housing...
Social Infrastructure at the Core of WHC
Why Focusing on Social Infrastructure is Core to WHC’s Impact Our social infrastructure is fragmented and crumbling. While our country’s physical infrastructure – roads, bridges, tunnels, and fiber networks – grab attention and public...
WHC Awarded a $1M Grant from TD Ready Challenge
Washington Housing Conservancy is awarded a $1 million grant through the TD Ready Challenge A 2023 TD Ready Challenge grant was awarded to Washington Housing Conservancy for their solution that helps address systemic barriers to...
Honoring the Black History of the DC Region
Washington, DC is rich in Black history and culture–from abolitionist Frederick Douglass to civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune to poet Langston Hughes to musicians Duke Ellington and Chuck Brown. Throughout Black History Month we...
Welcome WHC’s New Board Members
The Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) is excited to welcome two new Board of Directors - Mark Joseph, PhD, Founding Director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, based out of Case Western Reserve University, and...
Happy Holiday Season and Reflecting on the Year
Happy Holiday Season and Reflecting on the Year As we approach the end of another remarkable year, I find myself reflecting on the incredible journey we've embarked upon together as a community committed to positive change in the...
Innovative Affordable Housing Policies in the DC Region
Innovative Affordable Housing Policies in the DC Region America is short on housing. The U.S. lacks nearly 4 million units. The DC metro region’s share of that void comes to 320,000 units. Amid the shortage, quality housing that is...
5 Years 5 Stories: Carol Thompson Cole
Every month, WHC is excited to spotlight a leader, stakeholder or resident and their answer to "Why WHC?" This month, we feature one of our Board members, Carol Thompson Cole. As a Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) board member, Carol...
WHC’s Partnership with Esusu
WHC’s Partnership with Esusu: Helping Our Residents Secure the Building Blocks of Financial Success As anyone with a credit card or car loan can tell you, credit history and credit scores play an oversized role in determining many...
The Power of Placemaking to Build a Stronger Social Infrastructure
WHC's Executive Director Kimberly Driggins was included in the Milken Institute's essay collection Power of Ideas leading up to their Future of Health Summit in November. Check out her essay on placemaking, community building and...
WHC Executive Director Speaking at WRLD CTY Forum in NYC
WHC's Executive Director Kimberly Driggins is speaking at the WRLDCTY Global Forum for Urban Innovation on October 3 in the panel Flipping the Script on Housing. She will be joined by Marc Norman, from NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate,...
The Link Between Affordable Housing & Educational Outcomes
The Link Between Affordable Housing and Educational Outcomes Back to school time is a reminder of how important stable and safe housing is to children’s ability to learn and ultimately to their future emotional, physical and economic...
5 Years 5 Stories: Yvette Ross Kane
Every month, WHC is excited to spotlight a leader, stakeholder or resident and their answer to “Why WHC?” This month, we feature our Director of Asset Management and DC native, Yvette Ross Kane.
Brazil Summer Learning Journey
A SUMMER LEARNING JOURNEY TO BRAZIL AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL IMPACT Here in the United States, we see a great deal of conversation around the state of our physical infrastructure – roads, bridges, tunnels, fiber networks, etc. But...
Affordable Housing is a Vaccine
In the affordable housing space, we see daily how housing is foundational to good health and economic opportunity. The Stakeholder Council of the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) brought that into sharper focus last month during a...
WHC Welcomes New Fundraising and Program Staff
WHC Welcomes Director of Development, Two Social Impact Coordinators and Announces a Staff Promotion The innovative nonprofit Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) welcomes a director of development and two social impact coordinators,...
WHC Joins the APA/NLC Housing Supply Accelerator Committee
The American Planning Association and National League of Cities' newly launched Housing Supply Accelerator will bring together key stakeholders to develop model practices, examine policy and other strategies to address the US housing...
Proud to be a Motley Fool Financial Freedom Rule Breaker
Last year, Kimberly Driggins was selected by The Motley Fool Foundation to be in its inaugural cohort of Financial Freedom Rule Breakers of social innovators who challenge conventional wisdom and create equitable pathways to Financial...
2023 Newsletter
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WHC Acquires Loree Grand in NoMa DC
Washington Housing Conservancy Acquires 212-Unit Luxury DC Apartment Community to Preserve Housing Affordability for Moderate- and Low-Income Families and Individuals The purchase of the Loree Grand in the high-growth Near Northeast...
Welcome WHC’s New Board Chair
Federal City Council Executive Kevin Clinton Named as Washington Housing Conservancy’s New Board ChairThe Washington Housing Conservancy, an innovative nonprofit organization that focuses on preserving affordable housing to prevent...
WHC Executive Director Kimberly Driggins Honored at 2022 Women Who Mean Business Awards
The Washington Business Journal celebrated their 19th annual Women Who Mean Business awards on October 6th at the Ritz-Carlton. WHC’s Executive Director, Kimberly Driggins, was one of the select few to be honored at this year’s...
Shelterforce Article on WHC’s Social Impact Investing
The Washington Housing Conservancy’s Executive Director, Kimberly Driggins, and AJ Jackson, EVP of Social Impact Investing at JBG SMITH, wrote a piece for Shelterforce on WHC's creative social impact investment model. With access to the...
Meet WHC’s New Director of Asset Management
WHC Welcomes Yvette Ross Kane, Director of Asset Management
WHC and MHP Earle Manor Deal in the News!
Washington Housing Conservancy’s first acquisition in Montgomery County, MD in a joint venture with MHP was profiled in an article from Commercial Observer. Hear what our Executive Director has to say about our newest community: “Earle...
WHC and MHP Acquire Affordable Housing Community in Wheaton, MD
Fourth addition to portfolio of 140 units at Earle Manor advances the WHC mission to secure long-term affordability and open opportunities for individuals and families in inclusive mixed-income communities.
Washington Housing Conservancy Welcomes Three New Board Members
Maria Gomez of Mary’s Center, David M. Martin of Arent Fox, and Eshauna Smith of Ballmer Group support WHC mission to preserve racially diverse moderate and low-income communities, stabilize rents, and open new avenues to opportunity.
Commercial Observer Covers Huntwood Acquisition
News is spreading on the Washington Housing Conservancy’s recent acquisition of Huntwood Courts in Washington, DC. Commercial Observer featured WHC’s first deal in the District of Columbia, an important milestone as we now serve...
WHC Acquires First DC Affordable Housing Community
Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) Acquires Its First Affordable Housing Community in Washington, DC
Prince George’s County Held Press Conference at Hamilton Manor
The Washington Housing Conservancy and NHT Communities welcomed Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks to Hamilton Manor at a press conference to announce the expansion of the County’s Right of First Refusal (ROFR) program....
WHC in partnership with NHT Communities acquires its second property in Hyattsville, MD
The Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) further advances its mission to preserve affordable housing throughout the Washington, DC region with its second acquisition. In partnership with NHT Communities, WHC purchased Hamilton Manor, a...
Washington Housing Conservancy is hiring a Director of Asset Management!
UPDATE 4/15/2022: This position has been filled. Established in 2018, the Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC) is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that disrupts housing market forces to prevent displacement and promote opportunity for...
Washington Housing Conservancy’s First Acquisition of Arlington’s ‘Crystal House’ Honored with 2021 Housing Achievement Award
Transaction involving partnership with Amazon recognized by Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND) for providing affordable, inclusive housing for moderate-income individuals and familiesWASHINGTON, DC—June 25, 2021—The...
Health and Housing Article by Kimberly Driggins
WHC Executive Director’s article on Preservation, Placemaking, and Private Sector Investment was published on Invest HealthThis week, WHC Executive Director Kimberly Driggins' article was published for Invest Health, an initiative by The...
WHC is Featured in Fast Company Article!
Crystal House, a WHC partner community, was featured in a Fast Company article on Arlington affordable housingWashington Housing Conservancy was featured in a Fast Company article about our innovative approach to preserve housing...
WHC Partners with Amazon to Acquire First Property
Exciting details on the first acquisition for the Washington Housing ConservancyIn partnership with Amazon, we have completed a transaction that will lead to the preservation and creation of 1,300 affordable homes at the 16-acre “Crystal...
September 25: Harvard Equitable Development Symposium
Register now for the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ virtual symposium “In Pursuit of Equitable Development: Lessons from Washington, Detroit, and Boston.”Executive Director Kimberly Driggins (Harvard Loeb Fellow ‘16) looks...
Washington Housing Conservancy Stands in Solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.The COVID-19 pandemic and the eruption of outrage over systemic racism and police brutality have brought America to an unprecedented crossroads. The...
Models to Preserve Affordable Housing Are Even More Important in the Aftermath of COVID-19
The Urban Institute released a research brief on the Washington Housing Initiative and the importance of preserving housing affordability in the aftermath of COVID-19.The Urban Institute released a research brief on their contributions in...
Housing as a Tool for Urban Redevelopment
Washington Housing Conservancy executive director Kimberly Driggins participated in a discussion about housing’s role in driving urban development and what local partnerships and solutions look like today.Preserving affordable workforce...
Washington Housing Conservancy Appoints Placemaking Expert Kimberly Driggins as New Executive Director
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 14, 2019) --- The Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC), an independent non-profit and long-term steward dedicated to the preservation and sustainability of affordable workforce housing in the Washington D.C. metro...
Washington Housing Conservancy Named Pre-Qualified DOPA Developer by Mayor
Expanding WHC’s Ability to Work Directly with the District to Preserve Affordable HousingWASHINGTON, D.C. (May 9, 2019) --- The Washington Housing Conservancy, an independent non-profit and long-term steward dedicated to the preservation...
Washington Housing Conservancy Launches with Board and $12.5 Million in Donations
An Innovative, Community-Oriented Approach to Address Affordable Workforce Housing Needs in the Washington DC Region WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 24, 2019)--- Rising rents and a shortage of affordable, well-located housing has put increased...
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