News and Inspiration

Hear from two UK innovators about the connection between housing and wellbeing.

Please enjoy our round-up from the webinar, including a video, slides and other resources, along with a snapshot of a few of the most notable excerpts from our conversation.

Hear from local experts about the health and climate rationale for intergenerational ‘sociable’ design.

Happy Cities, Hey Neighbour Collective, and Simon Fraser University are working with six local governments in Metro Vancouver to co-create policies for social wellbeing in multi-unit housing.

Are you a Vancouver-area university student researching housing-related issues? Check out this November event.

A critical perspective in housing affordability and choices that are key to quality of life.

Connect & Prepare program featured in report by Public Health Agency of Canada and BC Centre for Disease Control.

Our HNC research group, comprised of Simon Fraser University and Happy Cities members, explored how social interactions in multi-unit housing are influenced by the physical environment in 20 buildings in Vancouver and Victoria.

People who oppose rezoning single-family neighbourhoods often claim that density is bad for our health and wellbeing. But what does the data really say? With the B.C. government’s recent announcement…

HNC is on the lookout for a new part-time member to boost our knowledge mobilization capacity.

Governments have become interested in reducing loneliness and social isolation and strengthening resilience and collective emergency preparedness in these settings. 

The role of community housing in resident social resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.