Webinar recap: The Benefits of Being an Enabling Host
On April 14th, 2026, Hey Neighbour Collective and United Way BC’s Seniors’ Housing Working Group co-hosted the webinar “The Benefits…
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Webinar Recap: Innovative community programs to build social connection in housing
On March 6, 2026, Hey Neighbour Collective and United Way BC’s Seniors’ Housing Working Group co-hosted the webinar, titled “Innovative…
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HNC Feature: “No Place like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis”
Jessica Barrett, author of No Place Like Home: The Missing Key to Our Housing Crisis, writes, “most people actually yearn…
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Join the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: The Benefits of Being An Enabling Host
When: Tuesday, April 14th, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST Format: 2-hour, participatory model | Presentations, panel, Q&A, and facilitated…
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HNC Feature: Building social connections in practice
Hey Neighbour Collective, Happy Cities and SFU Renewable Cities hosted Building social connections in practice, a national training cohort for…
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Join us for the next ‘Housing That Connects Us’ webinar: Innovative Community Programs to Build Social Connection in Housing
When: Friday, March 6th, 10AM – 11:30AM PST Format: Zoom webinar, 1 hour presentation and 30-minute facilitated Q&A (90 minutes)…
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Practical and Emotional Supports are “Close To Home”
West End Seniors’ Network’s “Close To Home” program aims to grow social connections and reduce isolation and loneliness–especially in multi-unit…
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HNC Feature: Where Social Connection Becomes Care
How we navigate our homes, relationships, and communities evolves as we age across the life course. This beautiful digital storytelling…
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HNC Feature: The ‘Paradox of Proximity’
What does the “Paradox of Proximity” mean to you? Bloxhub, Denmark’s Nordic hub for sustainable urbanism, describes it this way:…
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HNC feature: The Walrus Talks on place and belonging
How do the places where we gather shape how we connect? This is a question that Hey Neighbour Collectives Director,…
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Partner Highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”
In this article, the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) team 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.’ Read the original…
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Partner Highlight: How Build Canada Homes can go beyond affordability
In September, the federal government announced the Build Canada Homes program, a national initiative to “build affordable housing at scale…
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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…
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Living Together 2025 in Action
In early May, we gathered the people and organizations who inspire us, challenge us, and align with our vision, all…
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Living Together 2025: Symposium Report
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Hey Neighbour Collective’s Evaluation Report: Impacts and learnings from our first five years (2019-2024)
For more than five years, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) has been bringing together housing operators, community-based organizations, researchers, policy makers,…
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Emerging SFU Scholars Reflect on Living Together 2025
On May 5th and 6th, 2025, we hosted our second Living Together: Connecting housing, social health, and resilience symposium. This…
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‘Age-Friendly Edition’ of the Building Social Connections toolkit
Homes can be designed to support wellbeing at all ages and life stages. Happy Cities and Hey Neighbour Collective recently…
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Learning about urban landmarks with Kishore Seetharaman
I’ve worked with a couple of members of HNC in the past. In particular, Dr. Atiya Mahmood is an SFU…
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Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Living Together 2025: Connecting housing, social health and resilience convened nearly 200 housing operators and experts, public health professionals, municipal…
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An interview with Charito Gailling
We see housing as critical infrastructure for “multi-solving” in the midst of multiple overlapping crises, like climate change, rising social…
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An interview with Scott and Rebeca
In this short interview, Scott Stewart and Rebeca Robles from New Chelsea Society (NCS) share insights on building community within…
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An interview with Ana and Ame-Lia
When you’re surrounded by diversity (across sectors, perspectives, professions, and lived experiences) but united by a shared vision, you feel…
