Impact report: Living Together Symposium
Living Together: Connecting housing, social health and resilience was a two-day hybrid symposium of engaging presentations and dialogues about tackling loneliness and social isolation in our homes and communities. Held…
Practice Guide: Learning from the community connectors
Download the PDF version of this Practice Guide. Key learnings from the report The pandemic created barriers that led to creative solutions. Building design matters for sociability. There is an…
Webinar recap: Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing
On March 1st, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) and CMHC co-hosted a webinar entitled ‘Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing.’ A diverse audience, including local and federal government employees, housing providers and…
Callista Ottoni on community-engaged research, social connectedness and the magic of informal conversations
How did you first learn about the Hey Neighbour Collective? My PhD supervisor, Meghan Winters, who is a principal investigator with the Collective, introduced me to the team. My doctoral…
Practice Guide #4: Roles for Local Government in Strengthening Social Connectedness and Resilience Activities in Multi-unit Housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments and condominiums are becoming a prominent form of housing in…
How does housing density really affect life in cities?
Canada is simultaneously experiencing a severe housing crisis and – like many other countries – a crisis of increasing loneliness and social isolation. Intervening to tackle loneliness and social isolation…
Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video
In an emergency, your neighbours will be the first people at the scene who can potentially help. This simple fact has borne out in research into acute emergencies—the more socially…
Practice Guide #3: Developing organizational partnerships to build community in multi-unit housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments and condominiums are becoming a prominent form of housing in…
Join our webinar on social sustainability in multi-unit housing
Join us on March 1st at 10 AM PST for a free, CMHC-hosted webinar to learn more about building social sustainability in multi-unit housing. Register now As Canadian cities densify,…
