Partner Highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”
Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.
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Building community is good for business
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Landlord BC’s quarterly print magazine, ‘The Key.’ “Landlords and property managers can do a little or a lot to support…
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Partner Highlight: How Build Canada Homes can go beyond affordability
Emma Avery of Happy Cities presents three new, non-market buildings in Metro Vancouver that offer inspiration for building housing that is intentionally designed to be more affordable and connected.
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Igniting resident leadership
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.
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What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!
What if our neighbours became sources of everyday support that could allow all of us to grow our social connectedness and resilience, while also staying in our homes longer as we “age in the right place”?
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Living Together 2025 in Action
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!).
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Hey Neighbour Collective’s Evaluation Report: Impacts and learnings from our first five years (2019-2024)
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.
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Emerging SFU scholars reflect on Living Together 2025
We applaud our dedicated research assistants for bringing such impactful work to life! Find reflections from Olivia, Jean, Kishore, and Sreya on their experiences at the symposium, things that sparked their curiosity, and connections they made.
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‘Age-Friendly Edition’ of the Building Social Connections toolkit
Designing multi-unit housing to support wellbeing at all ages and life stages.
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Learning about urban landmarks with Kishore Seetharaman
HNC’s research assistant Kishore tells us why he dove into the field of environmental gerontology and how he journeyed from Chennai to Canada.
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Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
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What makes an age-friendy home?
A version of this article was originally published by Happy Cities in March 2025. This post supplements the “Building Social Connections Toolkit: Age-friendly Edition,” which illustrates how to design home…
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Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health and resilience
Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.
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Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”
At one BC Housing building, residents foster shared capacity, resilience, and fun.
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‘Silver tsunami’ or golden opportunity?
Interwoven challenges of aging populations, social isolation, rising housing costs, and climate change are unleashing a global social innovation movement.
