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West End Seniors’ Network’s “Close To Home” program aims to grow social connections and reduce isolation and loneliness–especially in multi-unit buildings that have a high proportion of residents who are…
How homes can foster connections between residents
What it takes to build a vertical community, floor by floor.
Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2025 issue of Landlord BC’s quarterly print magazine, ‘The Key.’ “Landlords and property managers can do a little or a lot to support…
Over the past five years, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) demonstration partners piloted a wide range of social connectedness programs in a variety of contexts, from shared meals in social housing to emergency preparedness workshops in market condominium buildings. Yet, across all of these diverse initiatives, there was striking consistency in the impacts on the majority of participating residents.
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
Living Together 2025 is a two-day collective action symposium held in Vancouver.
Interwoven challenges of aging populations, social isolation, rising housing costs, and climate change are unleashing a global social innovation movement.
This article was originally posted on January 2, 2025 at SFU Renewable Cities. Housing is particularly well-suited to multi-solving approaches, as it is so much more than four walls and a roof:…
Hey Neighbour joined hundreds of other delegates at Housing Central in November, to chat with folks about the Building Social Connections toolkit co-developed with partners at Happy Cities. Michelle Hoar…
Communities across Canada face growing challenges—climate change, housing affordability, escalating construction costs, loneliness and social isolation, aging populations, and more. Housing is a critical tool for tackling many of these…
Last year, on November 15th, 2023, the Hey Neighbour Collective co-sponsored an all-day student research symposium alongside the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Departments…
It’s gearing up to be a busy conference season for the team at Hey Neighbour Collective. We’re presenting at four separate events in Vancouver over the next few months, and…
