About Love My Hood

Love My Hood is both a strategy for the City of Kitchener and a movement led by residents.

The Love My Hood strategy

In 2017, the City of Kitchener adopted its first official neighbourhood strategy, called Love My Hood: Kitchener's Guide to Great Neighbourhoods. Love My Hood was created thanks to the effort of volunteers and city staff, who worked through nearly 1,000 hours of project meetings.

The Love My Hood vision encourages residents to take the lead in shaping their neighbourhood, with help from the city. Residents choose the projects that matter most to them and decide how to shape the future of their neighbourhood. After all, the best neighbourhoods are made by the people who live in them.

Read more about our vision and the 18 action items that guide the strategy.

All of the action items in our plan are based on the feedback we received during the community engagement process, in which:

• 5,343 people participated, which is three people for every street in Kitchener!
• 3,842 hours of conversation were held, which is like talking about neighbourhoods for 160 consecutive days!

To see what your neighbours had to say, check out:

• What did the community tell us?
• Love My Hood: How did we make it?

The #LoveMyHood movement

The #LoveMyHood movement is driving positive neighbourhood action. Many residents are using #LoveMyHood on social media to showcase all the things they love about their neighbourhood - and we encourage you to do the same!

By focusing on our neighbourhoods' strengths and sharing inspiring stories with each other, we can build on this momentum and create neighbourhoods we can all be proud of.