A collaboration between LatinGSD, GSD Career Services and Loeb Fellowship, the event explores successful non-traditional and multi-scalar fields of practice as opportunities to develop business models via social agency, advocacy, and activism.
Kimberly Dowdell has designed or managed over $100 million in assets as a licensed architect, a real estate project manager, and a city government official. Her career with major architectural and real estate firms in Washington, D.C. and New York coupled with her tenure working with the City of Detroit have rounded out Kimberly’s experience as an equitable development professional.
Through their Residential Energy Efficiency for Low Income Households (REELIH) program, Habitat for Humanity International and USAID have reduced the high home-heating costs in several Balkan countries, where many urban residents live in large, aging, uninsulated and often unmaintained apartment buildings.
The national market for home improvement and repair is now well over $400 billion annually. Join us as we release the 20th anniversary edition of our biennial Improving America’s Housing report.
The Social Innovation and Change Initiative welcomes Micaela Connery (Cheng Fellow, MPP ‘16), Founder and CEO of The Kelsey, for a conversation on creating and advocating for inclusive spaces.
The Champlain Housing Trust in Vermont is the country’s largest community land trust. Founded in 1984, it stewards 606 owner-occupied homes in its signature shared-equity program, manages 2,350 apartments and a motel for homeless families, and both owns and manages 140,000 sq. ft. of community facilities and commercial space.
