A home for those who serve.
KenHome Foundation is a national institution committing capital, land, and coalition to the housing of the first responders and healthcare workers without whom America's greatest cities cannot function. We do not fund this work. We build it.
Rooted in compassion. Built for community.
The men and women who answer when the alarm sounds — and the clinicians who meet them at the door — can no longer afford to live in the cities they protect and heal.
Across the United States' highest-cost metropolitan economies — the corridors where our hospitals, fire departments, and emergency networks must function or our cities cannot — the firefighters, police officers, paramedics, nurses, and resident physicians who staff them are being priced beyond commuting distance of their stations, their bays, and their bedside. KenHome Foundation exists to close that gap — structurally, permanently, and at the scale the country requires.
We are not a grant-making foundation that disburses to others. We are an operating foundation that builds what it funds — owning, holding, and stewarding the housing it develops as permanent civic infrastructure. Dallas is the flagship. Houston follows. Every American metropolitan economy whose essential workforce has been priced out of the city it serves is, in time, within the mission.
They keep the city alive.
They should live in it.
Dallas Medical District.
One thousand homes. Four phases. The proof of model that funds a national institution.
The Dallas Medical District Workforce Housing Initiative is the founding project of KenHome Foundation — the development, capital, operating, and coalition model that every subsequent city will inherit. Its successful execution authorizes the Foundation's expansion into Houston and the metropolitan corridors beyond.
- LocationDallas Medical District corridor
- Total Units1,000 across four phases of 250
- Affordability~20% below prevailing market rent
- TimelinePhase I groundbreaking late 2027; full completion 2034
- Capital Plan$318M – $424M across all four phases
The flagship. The follow. The metropolitan footprint.
KenHome Foundation's expansion follows the density of the crisis. We commit first where the gap between essential-worker compensation and metropolitan housing cost is most acute, and where the institutional, public, and philanthropic capacity to assemble a coalition is already in place.
Serving the 55,000+ healthcare workers and 8,000+ first responders of the UT Southwestern, Parkland, Children's Medical Center, and Methodist Health System corridor. Phase I capital under active assembly with municipal, institutional, and philanthropic partners.
Anchored by the Texas Medical Center — the largest medical complex in the world, with more than 100,000 employees across 60+ institutions. The workforce housing pressure parallels Dallas; the institutional architecture for coalition is already present.
Austin, Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, New York, Washington, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Each metropolitan area selected against four criteria: housing-cost severity, essential-workforce concentration, public-sector readiness, and the philanthropic and institutional capacity to sustain a multi-phase commitment.
The people who show up. Every day.
Every home the Foundation builds is dedicated to the workforce without whom American cities cannot function — and whose service entitles them to live within the communities they have chosen to serve.
This work is built by coalition.
No single contributor funds a KenHome city. Each partner — public, institutional, philanthropic — contributes what they are structurally positioned to contribute. The aggregate is what builds the city. The Foundation welcomes coalition at every scale, in every market.
Municipal, state, and federal participation — land conveyance, capital programs, and policy alignment in every target metropolitan area.
- —Land donation or conveyance
- —HOME, CDBG, housing trust funds
- —LIHTC allocation partnership
- —Tax abatement structures
Healthcare systems, academic medical centers, and research institutions whose workforce retention and community-benefit obligations align directly with the Foundation’s work in each city.
- —Institutional land contribution
- —Workforce partnership
- —Capital investment
- —Research and evaluation
National foundations, Fortune 500 corporations, regulated financial institutions, and individual donors whose participation underwrites the national mission and reinforces the capital stack of each city.
- —Operating and program grants
- —Program-Related Investments
- —CRA-qualifying investment
- —Naming and recognition
The work will outlast us. So should the record of who built it.
At a central location within each completed KenHome city, a permanent marble wall will bear the names of every institution, corporation, foundation, family, and individual whose contribution materially enabled the work. Cast in stone. Lit at night. Read for generations.
Join the CoalitionBuild with us.
Whether you represent a city, a hospital system, a national foundation, a Fortune 500 board, a regulated bank, a labor council, or yourself — the first responders and healthcare workers of America's highest-cost metropolitan economies require what KenHome Foundation is building. The coalition is open.