HNC feature: Where social connection becomes care
How homes can foster connections between residents
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Partner highlight: No help needed, we’re Canadian!
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.
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Partner highlight: How neighbourly connections can help us “age in the right place”
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.
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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.
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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.
