Kingston Dignified Housing Strategy
Building a dignified housing future for Kingston residents.
Councillor Conny Glenn, Founder
We're preparing something meaningful
KDHS brings together residents, sponsors, and civic partners to shape housing policies rooted in community wisdom. Our full platform—including public documents, policy desks, and a civic assistant—will launch soon.
A Note from the Team
The Kingston Dignified Housing Strategy began with Conny Glenn and a simple premise: Kingston's housing crisis isn't a failure of individuals — it's a failure of system design. Decades of policy choices created structural scarcity, and the predictable results are all around us: skyrocketing costs, unsafe conditions, overwhelmed services, and rising frustration.
KDHS is a comprehensive plan to re-architect how Kingston delivers housing and food security — not as charity, but as core civic infrastructure. Our vision is a city where nobody is homeless or precariously housed, nobody goes hungry, and housing, food, health, and community systems work together by design. We're guided by five values: Dignity, Trust, Co-Design, Evidence-Driven Iteration, and Long-Term Stewardship.
This isn't a quick fix. We're building by evolution — strengthening what works, redesigning what fails, and adding capacity until dignified housing becomes the standard condition for every Kingston resident.
The first step is already underway. Kingston Food Rescue is the first operational element of the KDHS framework — putting the principle of "food as infrastructure" into practice.
Because housing systems collapse without food security. A person in survival mode cannot stabilize, cannot plan, cannot rebuild. By treating food access as foundational infrastructure rather than optional charity, we're laying the groundwork for everything else KDHS aims to achieve.