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Kimberly Vermeer (she/her/hers)

President
Urban Habitat Initiatives Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts

Kimberly Vermeer, LEED AP Homes, is President of Urban Habitat Initiatives Inc. where she is an interdisciplinary sustainability practitioner, author, and podcaster, with a special focus in multifamily affordable housing. She consults to affordable housing developers to advance sustainability and climate resilience in their development projects and organizations. Kim supports the I'm HOME team at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to advance manufactured housing as a key component of addressing housing affordability and homeownership. Committed to equity in sustainability and to delivering the benefits of green building to vulnerable populations, she works with teams to incorporate a full range of sustainability and climate resilience strategies into their projects. In her podcast, Green in Action, Kim shares stories of the people and organizations that are leading the transformation of the affordable housing sector through sustainable design and development. Kim is co-author, with Walker Wells, of the recently published book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, Revised Edition. An experienced educator, she has developed and facilitated many professional education and peer learning events. Her background includes housing finance, policy, and development. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga.

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