Webinars, Videos, and Podcasts
Multi-unit housing provides us with a unique opportunity to foster social connections, engagement, and resilience. Our webinars, videos, and podcasts brings together diverse speakers, topics, and research to share the social potential of multi-unit housing.
Thoughtful design and programming
As Canadian cities densify, multi-unit housing is becoming a dominant form for many – if not most – households. These housing types, however, sometimes offer lower levels of connection between neighbours and a reduced feeling of community. This is not a minor issue: our connections with neighbours – and with our immediate neighbourhood – impact our health in significant and measurable ways.
But multi-unit housing is not inherently isolating: thoughtful design and programming can help to build community, neighbourly connections and resilience. Great examples exist but they are too often the exception, not the rule.
This webinar series explores the designs, tools, and paradigms that planners and housing professionals can use to ensure denser housing also supports community resilience and social connection.
Webinars, video recaps, and videos
Watch these three symposium sessions from June 8th, the second day of the Living Together Symposium.
Watch these three symposium sessions from June 7th, the first day of the Living Together Symposium.
On September 16, Hey Neighbour Collective and Happy Cities co-hosted an online workshop to explore cultural, financial, and policy-level challenges to building socially connected, affordable multi-unit…
On June 22nd, Hey Neighbour Collective and co-hosts Happy City, Concert Properties and SFU Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue held a panel and webinar…
Panelists brought ideas, evidence and stories from their practice and research on what is at stake for the common humanity of our cities as we…
COVID-19 has presented particular challenges to operators of multi-unit rental housing, from mounting financial pressures due to residents’ challenges in paying rent, to managing new…
The pilot aimed to Increase a sense of community amongst residents within their buildings, decrease the frequency and intensity of loneliness among residents, support participating…