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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Silver tsunami or golden opportunity?
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Building social connections: Case studies to inspire socially connected multi-unit housing
The crises of social disconnection and housing affordability can be solved together. Read the case studies (PDF) Growing evidence shows…
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What is the role of planners in fostering pro-social communities?
In the face of an emerging asocial society1, urban and community planners are challenged to promote social connections and combat…
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Cookies, research methods, and building audits
Do you live in multi-unit housing, such as an apartment or condo, and feel like you lack social interactions with…
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US Surgeon General highlights the need for more social connection
Recently, the Office of the US Surgeon General posted an advisory to warn against the impacts our increasingly isolated societies…
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How does housing density really affect life in cities?
Canada is simultaneously experiencing a severe housing crisis and – like many other countries – a crisis of increasing loneliness…
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Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video
In an emergency, your neighbours will be the first people at the scene who can potentially help. This simple fact…
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Benefits of community building for housing providers: video
The percentage of urban dwellers living in multi-unit housing is increasing—and that has generated growing interest in how to foster…
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Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments…
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The benefits of neighbourly connections for residents in multi-unit housing: video
Extensive research has shown that, for many people, social isolation and loneliness aren’t just troubling in and of themselves—they tend…
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Practice Guide #1: Supporting residents to become community connectors in multi-unit housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments…
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How do researcher-community partnerships turn the dial towards greater social connectedness?
Isn’t it ironic – a social connectedness researcher who collected data, while isolated in their own home, distanced from their…
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Reducing social isolation among older adults helps everyone
Efforts to tackle social isolation among older Canadians could produce a wealth of health and lifestyle benefits for the country’s…
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Loneliness at home: reviewing the Psychology of Loneliness report from the UK Campaign to End Loneliness
This article was originally produced for the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC). Loneliness has become an increasingly urgent public health…
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More housing supply isn’t a cure-all for the housing crisis
Canada needs to build more homes, faster, according to a recent report by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The…
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New research: neighbourhoods matter
When the pandemic began, we knew little about its impact on the well-being of older adults. HNC collaborators set-out to…
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Living Together: Connecting housing, social well-being and resilience
Tue, 7 Jun 2022, 8:00 AM – Wed, 8 Jun 2022, 4:00 PM PDT Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue…
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Getting to know Lainey Martin
We recently caught up with Lainey Martin over a video call. She’s a Geography student at SFU and a research…
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How sociable is life in multi-unit rental housing?
Three members of Hey Neighbour Collective’s community of practice – Brightside Community Homes Foundation, Catalyst Community Developments Society and Concert…
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What we’re following: great reads, resources, new tech and more.
When Hey Neighbour Collective launched in July 2019, it felt like the issue of loneliness and social isolation was a…
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New Balance and falls prevention class designed to ensure you’re ready for winter
This fall we’ve launched a balance and falls prevention class. This is the brainchild of Thomas Zhou who has run…
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The privilege of social isolation
Yes, these are incredibly unstable times and the impacts are being felt by everyone worldwide. Collectively, we are now thinking…
