Connect and Prepare Learning Report cover floats in the foreground with a community meeting happening in the background.

Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning Report

Through its partnership with Hey Neighbour Collective, Building Resilient Neighbourhoods helped to bring Connect & Prepare to three new BC municipalities, in collaboration with resident champions, housing operators, local government emergency management and community planning staff, and non-profit organizations.

An illustration in hues of pink, brown, yellow and tan, depicting a city square with buildings, cars, people on bikes, and neighbours helping each other.

Unlocking social connections in multi-unit housing: Insights from our 2021-2022 resident surveys

Fndings from the recently completed Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) report ‘How sociable is life in multi-unit housing?’. This report provides aggregated and comparative results of two annual resident surveys (2021 & 2022) across the properties of HNC members Brightside Community Homes Foundation  and Catalyst Community Developments Society.

Multi-unit housing can be designed to meet residents’ needs at all stages of life. (Happy Cities)

Aging in the right place: Designing housing for wellbeing and older adults

Design strategies and research to support aging in the right place, from a collaborative multi-unit rental building project between Happy Cities, Hey Neighbour Collective, SFU’s Department of Gerontology, Concert Properties and Brightside Community Homes.

Building Resilient Neighbourhoods connect & prepare workshop.

Practice Guide #4: Roles for Local Government in Strengthening Social Connectedness and Resilience Activities in Multi-unit Housing

Fourth in a series of four guides from Hey Neighbour Collective about strategies and practices to increase neighbour-to-neighbour connections and social resilience among residents living in multi-unit housing.

Day two symposium workshop with facilitators and people working at their tables, and the report cover floating in the foreground.

Mainstreaming ‘sociable design’ for multi-unit housing: mapping the path forward

On June 8, 2022, we continued the conversation with a similar cross-section of engaged professionals in a half-day in-person workshop as part of the two-day symposium entitled Living Together: Connecting Housing, Social Wellbeing, and Resilience.