Resources, reports, guides, and profiles
Browse HNC backgrounders, discussion papers, toolkits, partner spotlights and research. Access additional research and reports from our partners. Get in touch if you have resources you’d like to share.
Practice guides
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 many fast-growing urban areas. So, what are the best approaches for helping nurture and strengthen neighbourly social connections in these spaces, and what kinds of benefits can result?
These five practice guides are written specifically for residents, landlords, housing operators, non-profit organizations, and municipal governments. The guides summarize Hey Neighbour Collective’s key learnings about the vital roles that each of these groups can play in fostering neighbour-to-neighbour connectedness and social resilience in multi-unit housing. The guides also point to the top tips, tactics, and strategic approaches, and describe the most common benefits that emerge for everyone involved.
Feature resources and reports
Partner research and reports
Brightside Community Homes Foundation
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods
- Building Resilient Neighbourhoods program
- Building Resilient Neighbourhoods toolkit (PDF)
- Connect & Prepare program
Catalyst Community Developments Society
- Homes That Connect Us: Building social connections and community engagement among residents of multi-family rental housing
- Madrona Community Connections Pilot – Final Report & Recommendations
- Spaces that Connect Us: Key Considerations for Delivering Social Infrastructure
Concert Properties
City of Vancouver – original Hey Neighbour pilot and earlier research
- Hey Neighbour Pilot – Final report PDF file (2.1 MB)
- Hey Neighbour Toolkit – A manager’s guide to creating community in buildings PDF file (850 KB)
- Hey Neighbour Recipe book – A resident animator’s guide PDF file (3.7 MB)
- Hey Neighbour – Exploring sociability in multi-unit buildings across Vancouver
- Supporting Friendlier, More Neighbourly Multi-Unit Buildings In Vancouver (PDF)
- Living Up, Or Living Apart? (PDF)
Happy Cities
- Together, Apart Toolkit: Ideas for staying connected in times of physical distancing
- Happy Neighbours project microsite
- Happy Homes: A toolkit for building sociability through multi-family housing design
- Designed to Engage: Policy recommendations for promoting sociability in multi-family housing
West End Seniors’ Network
Other related resources
- NORC Innovation Centre
- The Agile Aging Alliance
- Future Spaces Foundation
- Healthy Cities by Design
- GenWell Project
- Campaign to End Loneliness