Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a systems change project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in BC’s fast-growing vertical communities.
Over the past five years, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) demonstration partners piloted a wide range of social connectedness programs in a variety of contexts, from shared meals in social housing to emergency preparedness workshops in market condominium buildings. Yet, across all of these diverse initiatives, there was striking consistency in the impacts on the majority of participating residents.
We set out to capture the essence of the Living Together Symposium, for those who couldn’t be there in person (and for those who want to revisit the experience!).
This report summarizes key learnings from HNC’s first five years of operation (2019-2024) and is organized into four parts that describes HNC’s activities and their impacts, collective learnings, and shared priorities moving forward.
Designing multi-unit housing to support wellbeing at all ages and life stages.
HNC’s research assistant Kishore tells us why he dove into the field of environmental gerontology and how he journeyed from Chennai to Canada.
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.
What work are you involved in with Hey Neighbour? I’m working with a key partner of HNC, the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods team, to help them code qualitative data as part…
It’s gearing up to be a busy conference season for the team at Hey Neighbour Collective. We’re presenting at four separate events in Vancouver over the next few months, and…
On October 3rd, 2024, Hey Neighbour Collective hosted Housing That Connects Us #4: Design Tools to Support Wellbeing, as part of the year-long Building Social Connections project in partnership with…
At Hey Neighbour, we think a lot about the social connectedness of folks living in multi-unit homes, and how to improve their wellbeing. Some of us at Hey Neighbour are…
Join Hey Neighbour Collective and Happy Cities on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM PST for a dynamic conversation about the recently launched Building Social Connections toolkit! Communities…
How did you make your way to the Hey Neighbour Collective? When I was accepted into the Master of Public Health (MPH) program at SFU, I found a job post…
Our neighbours are our closest source of social support and connection. Socially connected homes and neighbourhoods nurture greater physical and mental health, community resilience, and social trust between diverse residents. …
During our conversation with HNC’s newest, Copenhagen-based, research assistant Olivia, we also chatted about her research and why being bad at hobbies can be liberating.
