News and Inspiration
We actively work with our partners to feature and be featured in diverse media. Here we share our news, and where we draw inspiration from.
Practical and Emotional Supports are “Close To Home”
West End Seniors’ Network’s “Close To Home” program aims to grow social connections and reduce isolation and loneliness–especially in multi-unit buildings that have a high proportion of residents who are…
HNC Feature: Where Social Connection Becomes Care
How homes can foster connections between residents
HNC Feature: The ‘Paradox of Proximity’
What it takes to build a vertical community, floor by floor.
Partner Highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”
Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.
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…
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.
Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health and resilience
Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.
‘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:…
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…