Webinar recap: The Benefits of Being an Enabling Host
How in-building social programming sparks connections and support.
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Webinar recap: Innovative community programs to build social connection in housing
Learning from community-based organizations about in-building social programming.
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HNC Feature: “No Place like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis”
A new book by Jessica Barrett, excerpted in The Walrus.
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Join the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: The Benefits of Being An Enabling Host
The many positives of in-building social programming.
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HNC Feature: Building social connections in practice
Happy Cities led a national workshop series for planners in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective and SFU Renewable Cities.
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Join us for the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: Innovative Community Programs to Build Social Connection in Housing
The critical role of community-driven programs.
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Practical and emotional supports are “Close to Home”
Small, neighbourly connections can have big impacts on aging in place.
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HNC Feature: Where Social Connection Becomes Care
How homes can foster connections between residents
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HNC Feature: The ‘Paradox of Proximity’
What it takes to build a vertical community, floor by floor.
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Living Together 2025: Symposium Report
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…
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HNC feature: The Walrus Talks on place and belonging
Exploring how shared spaces shape community and connection with Michelle Hoar
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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.
