Updates

Practice Guide #1: Supporting residents to become community connectors in multi-unit housing

Read our first in a series practice guides.

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Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit Housing

Read our second in a series practice guides.

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How social connectedness between neighbours supports health and well-being

Read our first in a series of Hey Neighbour evidence backgrounders.

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Living Together Symposium

Living Together was a space for concerned professionals and advocates to exchange ideas about efforts and develop a stronger collective voice.

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Developing Truly Complete Communities, Discussion Paper

The goal of this discussion paper is to propose ideas for Metro 2050 that would foster neighbourhood-based social connectedness among residents of multi-unit housing, especially those who rent.

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Community housing series, by Happy Cities

Four-part series on learning from community housing movements.

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Little Mountain Cohousing’s entry lounge becomes an impromptu play area after school lets out.

Resources

Learning from community housing movements: The social potential of multi-unit building lobbies

Jul 14, 202211 min read

Five design strategies for transforming a lobby into an awesome social space.

Resource roundup from the Living Together Symposium.

Resources

Resource roundup from Living Together Symposium

Jul 5, 20224 min read

Resources from presenters and participants from the symposium, presented by Hey Neighbour Collective, Happy Cities, SFU Urban Studies and SFU Public Square.