Dear ,
It’s
been a busy fall at Hey Neighbour Collective. On top of all our
partners’ ongoing activities to build community, social connections and
resilience in multi-unit housing, HNC team members:
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Presented at November’s Housing Central conference and at an international conference on loneliness in Barcelona.
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Completed a major academic
literature synthesis looking at multi-unit housing and social well-being
as part of an SSHRC focus on Canada’s Emerging Asocial Society (report forthcoming.)
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Co-published a report with Happy Cities on Concert Properties’ Community Connectors program (more below.)
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a series of focus groups and interviews with twenty market and
non-market rental housing operators and third-party property managers (report forthcoming.)
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We’re
also hard at work on some videos and best practice guides that will be
ready to share in early January - so stay tuned! For now, please enjoy
some of our newer articles, below.
Our best wishes for a peaceful, connected, and joyful season,
Hey Neighbour Collective
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Happy, healthy tenants benefit landlords, too
In this article,
co-authored by Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective, we outline
three ways rental housing providers can support social connectedness
within their buildings.
An earlier version of this article was published in LandlordBC’s print magazine - The Key - in September 2022.
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How an 11 year-old helped connect neighbours through the pandemic
For
many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic meant more time at home, and fewer
social outlets. But in one Victoria apartment building, 11 year-old Hana
was busier than ever. (By Happy Cities)
This article is based
on a Practice Guide that synthesizes research findings from separate
studies of Concert Properties’ Community Connectors program, done by
Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour.
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How do researcher-community partnerships turn the dial towards greater social connectedness?
Three
reflections from “How are you? Moments of connection and isolation”, an
interactive photography exhibition by Callista Ottoni, in Vancouver’s
West End Neighbourhood.
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Reducing social isolation among older adults helps everyone
A
new report from the National Institute on Ageing gives stark insights
into how lonely older Canadians are—and argues that real solutions
should touch all of us. (By Rop Wipond)
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Loneliness at home: reviewing the Psychology of Loneliness report from the UK Campaign to End Loneliness
Two
of Hey Neighbour’s very own research assistants, Lainey Martin and
Robyn Lee, recently reviewed the ‘Psychology of Loneliness’ report for
the Canadian Housing Evidence Collective (CHEC-CCRL) to understand what Canada can learn from the UK-based Campaign to End Loneliness’s efforts to address loneliness.
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