Partners in Your Success
Explore great business resources from the Agency, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, CMHC and other sources.
Managing Your Business
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
Project Management Guide
Agency for Co-operative Housing
Q&A on Underfunded Reserves
Agency for Co-operative Housing
2022 Utility Charges for Rental Assistance Clients
CMHC
2022 Utility Allowances for British Columbia
CMHC
2022 Utility Allowances for Alberta
CMHC
News
Welcoming New Co-ops to the Rental Assistance Program
5 August 2022
This month, the Agency is excited to welcome a new batch of co-op clients to the Rental Assistance Program (FCHI-2).
...Launching the online Rental Assistance Calculator
26 July 2022
We’re pleased to announce the official launch of our online Rental Assistance Calculator.
This tool was developed...
Our co-op a business?
A well-run housing co-op is a business where success depends on teamwork. When everyone is doing their part, the board is able to look to the co-op’s future. Staff can get their job done because the board has their back. Best of all, members can enjoy a great community life together.
Find out how your co-op measures up and how to be a better business.
Capital Plans and Contributions
Comparing 2007 and 2020, we saw the median annual contributions per unit almost triple ($1,026 per unit to $3,052).