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…
Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health and resilience
Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.
Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”
At one BC Housing building, residents foster shared capacity, resilience, and fun.
‘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.
Designing resilient and connected housing: Illustrations and insights from our design jam
This article was originally posted on January 2, 2025 at SFU Renewable Cities. Housing is particularly well-suited to multi-solving approaches, as it is so much more than four walls and a roof:…
Jean talks about the importance of qualitative research and why he writes poetry
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…
Hey Neighbour Collective at Housing Central 2024
Hey Neighbour joined hundreds of other delegates at Housing Central in November, to chat with folks about the Building Social Connections toolkit co-developed with partners at Happy Cities. Michelle Hoar…
Building Social Connections in Practice
Communities across Canada face growing challenges—climate change, housing affordability, escalating construction costs, loneliness and social isolation, aging populations, and more. Housing is a critical tool for tackling many of these…
Looking back one year ago: A Place Like Home symposium
Last year, on November 15th, 2023, the Hey Neighbour Collective co-sponsored an all-day student research symposium alongside the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Departments…
Designing Socially Connected Homes – small changes to make a big difference
This article, co-authored by Emma Avery (Urban Planner & Communications Specialist, Happy Cities) and Tara Fernando (Strategic Communications Specialist, Hey Neighbour Collective), originally appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of…
It’s conference season!
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…
Webinar Recap: Design tools to support wellbeing in multi-unit housing with Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective
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…
October 1 is International Day of Older Persons
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 the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: Design tools to support wellbeing
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…
Mitigating loneliness and isolation by building social and neighbourly connections play an increasingly important role in climate resilience
A version of this op-ed originally appeared online in the Vancouver Sun on July 11, 2024. In June, residents in central and eastern Canada faced a heat dome. From B.C.,…