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    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”?

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    Hey Neighbour Collective’s Evaluation Report: Impacts and learnings from our first five years (2019-2024)

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2025 . 07 . 092025 . 09 . 29

    This report summarizes key learnings from HNC’s first five years of operation (2019-2024) and is organized into four parts that describes HNC’s activities and their impacts, collective learnings, and shared priorities moving forward.

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    Publications

    ‘Silver tsunami’ or golden opportunity?

    By Rob Wipond 2025 . 01 . 232026 . 02 . 12

    Interwoven challenges of aging populations, social isolation, rising housing costs, and climate change are unleashing a global social innovation movement.

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    What is Neighbours Helping Neighbours?

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

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

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    Resources

    Seven lessons for implementing social activities in rental housing

    By Happy Cities 2022 . 12 . 162024 . 02 . 09

    Social activities for neighbours can help build a sense of community, boosting health, happiness, and resilience in multi-unit buildings.

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