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Building Resilient Neighbourhoods

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    Reports

    What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!

    By Building Resilient Neighbourhoods 2025 . 09 . 262025 . 09 . 26

    What if our neighbours became sources of everyday support that could allow all of us to grow our social connectedness and resilience, while also staying in our homes longer as we “age in the right place”?

    Read More What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!Continue

  • Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
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    Symposium recap: Living Together 2025

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2025 . 05 . 222025 . 06 . 30

    Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.

    Read More Symposium recap: Living Together 2025Continue

  • Floor connectors hold space together smiling in the room.
    Profiles

    Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”

    By Rob Wipond 2025 . 03 . 042025 . 03 . 04

    At one BC Housing building, residents foster shared capacity, resilience, and fun.

    Read More Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”Continue

  • Jean in Cerro Monserrate, Bogotá, Colombia (Monserrate Mountain).
    Interviews

    Jean talks about the importance of qualitative research and why he writes poetry

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2024 . 12 . 092024 . 12 . 06

    What work are you involved in with Hey Neighbour? I’m working with a key partner of HNC, the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods team, to help them code qualitative data as part…

    Read More Jean talks about the importance of qualitative research and why he writes poetryContinue

  • Three images of PDF resources overlaid on a photo of Queen Anne's Lace flowers against a smoky sky.
    Resources

    Be prepared for extreme heat and wildfire smoke – a collection of resources

    By Building Resilient Neighbourhoods & Hey Neighbour Collective 2024 . 07 . 082025 . 03 . 04

    Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Hey Neighbour Collective have curated a list of resources, tools, and guides from BC and Canadian sources to prepare for extreme heat and wildfires (updated 2024).

    Read More Be prepared for extreme heat and wildfire smoke – a collection of resourcesContinue

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

    Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning Report

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2024 . 06 . 252025 . 03 . 04

    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.

    Read More Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning ReportContinue

  • One guy helps someone out of a car, and another guy helps someone with their groceries with text on top that says, "Neighbours Helping Neighbours."
    Interviews

    What is Neighbours Helping Neighbours?

    By Rob Wipond 2024 . 06 . 132025 . 03 . 04

    A conversation with Molly Rose about Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ new initiative.

    Read More What is Neighbours Helping Neighbours?Continue

  • Rental housing operators and community building
    Reports

    Rental housing operators and community building

    By Keltie Craig 2023 . 12 . 132025 . 03 . 11

    Making Connections – a rental housing providers and neighbourly social connectedness research overview.

    Read More Rental housing operators and community buildingContinue

  • A crowd of people meetup in a beautiful park with giant trees and listen to a speaker before breaking off into smaller groups.
    News

    Building hope through action

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 08 . 032023 . 11 . 14

    Connect & Prepare program featured in report by Public Health Agency of Canada and BC Centre for Disease Control.

    Read More Building hope through actionContinue

  • Neighbours prepare for heat, together in a shady backyard with some festive flags up.
    Resources

    Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new guide

    By Building Resilient Neighbourhoods 2023 . 06 . 212023 . 06 . 23

    Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN), in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective, has published a new, free guide called Prepare Together for Extreme Heat.

    Read More Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new guideContinue

  • Headshots of speakers, and slide deck cover images of the presenters, from the CMHC webinar on March 1.
    News

    Webinar recap: Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing 

    By Lainey Martin 2023 . 03 . 072023 . 03 . 09

    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…

    Read More Webinar recap: Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing Continue

  • Building Resilient Neighbourhoods connect & prepare workshop.
    Resources

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

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 232025 . 06 . 23

    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.

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

  • The sun sets in the West and the city of Vancouver sits nestled South of mountains, as seen from the air.
    Profiles

    Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 142025 . 06 . 10

    Workshop leaders and participants discuss how the Connect & Prepare program helps grow social connections between neighbours that support resilience and preparedness.

    Read More Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: videoContinue

  • A group of neighbours meets to workshop some neighbourhood bonding ideas.
    Resources

    Practice Guide #3: Developing organizational partnerships to build community in multi-unit housing

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 142025 . 06 . 23

    Third 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.

    Read More Practice Guide #3: Developing organizational partnerships to build community in multi-unit housingContinue

  • Illustration of a community of connections and warm neighbourliness in the lower mainland, with text on top reading: March 1 Webinar.
    News

    Join our webinar on social sustainability in multi-unit housing

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 132024 . 12 . 16

    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. As Canadian cities densify, multi-unit housing…

    Read More Join our webinar on social sustainability in multi-unit housingContinue

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