Liam Griffin
Intercultural Community Development Consultant and Coach
Liam is the Communications & Partnerships Manager for Brightside Community Homes Foundation. Steward of the Brightside narrative, Liam is the organization’s storyteller in chief and keeper of “the right purple” (hex code #4B306A for those who are wondering).
Whether conveying stories of positive change, writing strategic communications, or coordinating support for new affordable homes, brokering Brightside’s connections and partnerships within the affordable housing sector and community is core to Liam’s role. Having watched all of Netflix, he now enjoys fidget toys and long public hearings on municipal rezoning policy in his spare time.
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.
Robyn Lee, on her work with the Collective and the importance of understanding architectural history
Robyn Lee shares about her Masters work and what she’s up to with HNC.
This report provides results of the initial 2020-21 round of resident surveys completed by 619 residents of housing provided by Catalyst Community Developments Society, Brightside Community Homes Foundation, and Concert Properties in British Columbia.
On September 16, Hey Neighbour Collective and Happy Cities co-hosted an online workshop to explore cultural, financial, and policy-level challenges to building socially connected, affordable multi-unit housing communities. We were joined…
This grant will support work from March 1st 2021 through to June 30th 2022 with four of our five practice partners. Together we’ll be exploring social sustainability innovations for affordable multi-unit rental housing. In particular, we’ll be highlighting the role that landlords, property managers and policy-makers can play in the process of building community, social connectedness and resilience in multi-unit housing contexts.
Led by Dr. Meg Holden, the SFU Research Team has published an article on The Conversation Canada about the importance of prioritizing social connections during the COVID-19 recovery.