How can community housing help us prepare for crisis?
The role of community housing in resident social resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Learning report: Hey Neighbour Collective’s first three years
Reflecting on HNC’s first three years, this report details activities, learnings, and shared priorities moving forward.
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Niloofar Hedayati on how better use of space in multi-unit buildings can improve social connectedness among older adults
Over a lively phone call, we chatted with Niloofar about her work in Iran and how she’s applying that experience to new research in Canada.
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Impact report: Living Together Symposium
Living Together: Connecting housing, social health and resilience was a two-day hybrid symposium of engaging presentations and dialogues about tackling loneliness and social isolation in our homes and communities. Held…
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Practice Guide: Learning from the community connectors
Practice guide for implementing resident-led social programming in multi-unit rental housing.
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Webinar recap: Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing
On March 1st, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) and CMHC co-hosted a webinar entitled ‘Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing.’ A diverse audience, including local and federal government employees, housing providers and…
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Callista Ottoni on community-engaged research, social connectedness and the magic of informal conversations
Callista Ottoni, PhD candidate at UBC and Mitacs Intern for Hey Neighbour, shares her thoughts on community-engaged research, her recent photography exhibit, and why she loves cycling around the city.
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Practice Guide #4: Roles for Local Government in Strengthening Social Connectedness and Resilience Activities in Multi-unit Housing
Fourth in a series of four guides from Hey Neighbour Collective about strategies and practices to increase neighbour-to-neighbour connections and social resilience among residents living in multi-unit housing.
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How does housing density really affect life in cities?
Canada is simultaneously experiencing a severe housing crisis and – like many other countries – a crisis of increasing loneliness and social isolation. Intervening to tackle loneliness and social isolation…
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Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video
Workshop leaders and participants discuss how the Connect & Prepare program helps grow social connections between neighbours that support resilience and preparedness.
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Practice Guide #3: Developing organizational partnerships to build community in multi-unit housing
Third in a series of four guides from Hey Neighbour Collective about strategies and practices to increase neighbour-to-neighbour connections and social resilience among residents living in multi-unit housing.
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Join our webinar on social sustainability in multi-unit housing
Join us on March 1st at 10 AM PST for a free, CMHC-hosted webinar to learn more about building social sustainability in multi-unit housing. As Canadian cities densify, multi-unit housing…
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Benefits of community building for housing providers: video
Landlords and housing operators can help nurture relationships among residents, and the positive returns for everyone involved can be substantial.
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Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit housing
This guide explores many relatively easy things that residents, landlords, housing operators, community organizations, and governments can do to support residents in making activities and social connectedness happen.
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The benefits of neighbourly connections for residents in multi-unit housing: video
Residents share why they became community connectors in their multi-unit buildings, what kinds of activities they helped organize, and what the benefits have been.
