Articles by Hey Neighbour Collective

Participants at the Living Together 2025 Symposium place colourful Post-It Notes on a wall sheet titled, "Burning Questions."

Living Together 2025: Symposium Report

Hey Neighbour CollectiveDec 1, 2025

A community garden with bright red tomatoes growing on the vine.

HNC feature: The Walrus Talks on place and belonging

Hey Neighbour CollectiveNov 21, 2025

Michelle Hoar stands holding a book titled, 'The Power of Proximity, and she is between Ann-Britt Anderson and a male colleague.

HNC Feature: The ‘Paradox of Proximity’

What it takes to build a vertical community, floor by floor.

ByHey Neighbour CollectiveDec 11, 20252 min read

A group of neighbours gathers around a table to make an emergency preparedness plan, while an officer looks on. Photo by Building Resilient Neighbourhoods.

Partner Highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”

Nov 12, 20251 min read

A group of people create a mural outside along a sidewalk.

Building community is good for business

Nov 7, 20258 min read

A top-down view of accessible picnic tables, patios, and community garden beds at non-market housing community Timbre and Harmony.

Partner Highlight: How Build Canada Homes can go beyond affordability

Oct 30, 20251 min read

An illustration showing diverse contexts, excerpted from the Hey Neighbour Collective Five-Year Learning Report

Igniting resident leadership

Oct 17, 20253 min read

Groups of people gather around small tables in a classroom.

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

Sep 26, 20252 min read

Floor connectors hold space together smiling in the room.

Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”

Mar 4, 202513 min read

A group of aging adults stand arm in arm laughing.

‘Silver tsunami’ or golden opportunity?

Jan 23, 202524 min read

Participants at the SFU Design Jam.

Designing resilient and connected housing: Illustrations and insights from our design jam

Jan 10, 20256 min read

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

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

Dec 9, 20248 min read

Atiya Mahmood, Tara Fernando, and Noni Nabors stand in front of red Simon Fraser University signage while holding paper copies of recent published works.

Hey Neighbour Collective at Housing Central 2024

Nov 29, 20241 min read

Building Social Connections in Practice: A workshop series.

Building Social Connections in Practice

Nov 27, 20248 min read

Attendees look on at the A Place Like Home symposium.

Looking back one year ago: A Place Like Home symposium

Nov 27, 20247 min read

Wide, exterior walkways at Driftwood Village Cohousing in North Vancouver are lined with differently coloured doorways, windows, plants, and seating.

Designing Socially Connected Homes – small changes to make a big difference

Nov 26, 202410 min read

A conference hall full of Lego characters

It’s conference season!

Oct 21, 20243 min read

An illustrated graphic to promote the Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective webinar about the Building Social Connections toolkit.

Webinar Recap: Design tools to support wellbeing in multi-unit housing with Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective

Oct 3, 20245 min read

Two older persons sit on a bench reading the newspaper with one person's left arm over her shoulder.

October 1 is International Day of Older Persons

Oct 1, 20244 min read

An illustrated graphic to promote the Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective webinar about the Building Social Connections toolkit.

Join the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: Design tools to support wellbeing

Sep 12, 20245 min read

A woman faces away from the camera with a clear umbrella patterned with small birds around its edge, while sunlight streams in from overhead through a leafy tree.

Mitigating loneliness and isolation by building social and neighbourly connections play an increasingly important role in climate resilience

Sep 5, 20245 min read

Tara Fernando leans against a railing overlooking the mountains and valley of Squamish in British Columbia, Canada.

Tara Fernando shares her thoughts on amenity spaces and the importance of knowledge translation

Aug 26, 20249 min read

An line drawing illustration showing groups of people socializing in and in front of a multi-unit building.

Building Social Connections: Toolbox of design actions to nurture wellbeing in multi-unit housing

Aug 1, 20244 min read

Olivia Tomlinson faces away from the camera looking towards a tree and cloud-shrouded mountains at sunset while walking on a country road, holding her sandals and wearing an olive green skirt and black tank top.

Olivia Tomlinson talks about the importance of meeting new people

Jul 17, 20247 min read