Loneliness Awareness Week
Resources for building neighbourly social connection and fostering resilience.
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How density can bring people together
Research from Canada and around the world has explored how different housing environments shape opportunities for social connection. While high-density living (such as multi-unit housing) is sometimes assumed to limit…
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Join the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: How three municipalities are designing for social wellbeing
“How three municipalities are designing for social wellbeing” will be held on June 24th, from 9:30 am – 11 am PST.
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Webinar recap: The benefits of being an enabling host
How in-building social programming sparks connections and support.
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Webinar recap: Innovative community programs to build social connection in housing
Learning from community-based organizations about in-building social programming.
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HNC feature: “No Place like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis”
A new book by Jessica Barrett, excerpted in The Walrus.
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Join the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: The Benefits of Being An Enabling Host
The many positives of in-building social programming.
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Join us for the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: Innovative Community Programs to Build Social Connection in Housing
The critical role of community-driven programs.
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Practical and emotional supports are “Close to Home”
Small, neighbourly connections can have big impacts on aging in place.
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Partner highlight: No help needed, we’re Canadian!
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.
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Partner highlight: How neighbourly connections can help us “age in the right place”
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods demonstrates how to work through common attitudes and resistances toward neighbourly helping.
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HNC feature: The Walrus Talks on place and belonging
Exploring how shared spaces shape community and connection with Michelle Hoar
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Partner highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”
Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.
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Building community is good for business
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…
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Igniting resident leadership
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.
