Hello, neighbour! How a B.C. design firm welcomed social-housing tenants

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Lovely story of how one neighbourhood stepped away from NIMBY and welcomed social housing.

Ms. Chisholm wanted to find a way to break down social barriers between the area’s young entrepreneurs and the new residents. “I started to think, here’s an opportunity. How could we change the conversation? … How could we look at these people as real people and maybe even welcome them as neighbours and what would that look like?” she said.

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Source: Globe & Mail

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