Managing Your Business

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Partners in Your Success
Explore great business resources from the Agency, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, CMHC and other sources.

Housing co-operatives are small businesses formed to provide housing for their members. They prosper best when they are fully occupied and members pay their housing charges in full and on time.

A housing co-op is not a complex business, but it takes work to keep it going. As the steward of your business, your board’s job is to see that the business thrives so that members’ homes are not only affordable, but a good place to live.

How-to information and resources can help your co-op succeed, but your board, staff and members will have to do the work yourselves.

Hundreds have done it and so can your co-op. Let’s get started.

Resources

Model Investment Policy

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Guide to Investment Policy for Housing Co-operatives

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Quick Guide to the Rental Assistance Online Calculator

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News

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Management Trend

The trend to hire management companies continues. 58% of co-ops hire management companies, compared to 28% that employ independent staff as their managers.