News and Inspiration

Resources for building neighbourly social connection and fostering resilience.

A new book by Jessica Barrett, excerpted in The Walrus.

Small, neighbourly connections can have big impacts on aging in place.

How homes can foster connections between residents

Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.

Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.

What it takes to build a vertical community, floor by floor.

Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.

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…

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.

Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.

Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.