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
Community Development and Education Plan
Overview of Rental Assistance (FCHI-2) for S95 co-ops
Information Sheet on Mortgage Payment Deferrals during COVID‐19
Agency for Co-operative Housing
News
All in This Together at Abiwin Co-operative
5 August 2020
As the pandemic moved into high gear in Canada, businesses were closing and employees were sent home; a new normal was...
Chadwick Towers Prepays its Mortgage
13 July 2020
In 2018 CMHC made an offer to a particular group of clients, which the Agency encouraged them to accept. For a limited...
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.
Management Trend
More co-ops are moving to management companies. Just 28% of Agency clients have their own managers, while management companies serve 56%.