Living Together 2025: Symposium Report
Summary of learnings, key questions, and calls to action
Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health, and resilience convened a diverse array of housing professionals, municipal planners, provincial and federal policy makers, public health professionals, architects, planners, non-profits, researchers and students. During this two-day collective action symposium at the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in Vancouver, British Columbia, these two hundred community leaders and experts discussed major learnings and vital next steps for creating a future where more of Canada’s communities are age-friendly, socially connected, neighbourly, health-promoting and resilient.
This report summarizes the two-day event and the key learnings, questions, and calls to action that emerged.
The goals for Living Together 2025
- Learn about what’s working and what the barriers are to fostering socially connected, neighbourly, health-promoting, and resilient multi-unit housing.
- Strengthen connections and shared understanding across diverse actors, sectors and roles.
- Explore opportunities for “joined up” efforts that will align health, housing, and other sectors to move more deliberately towards systems and policy change.
- Co-create calls to action for our next steps as a collective action movement.
“Overall, it’s an incredible event whereby the focus is to leave with actionable items. There’s been too many conferences where we focus too much on identifying issues. This is a breath of fresh air.”
Symposium participant
Take a look at presentation slides, poster presentations, and the photo gallery.
See what our participating emerging scholars had to say!
Watch Symposium videos and short interviews with attendees.
