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
NHS Funding Programs for Co-ops
CHF Canada
2019 Utility Allowances for Ontario
CMHC
News
A New Era for the Agency’s Board
15 July 2019
For the first time, starting in June 2019, the Agency’s Board of Directors will include two directors already serving on...
If Your Co-op is in Poor Shape, How Will You Know?
11 July 2019
The sun is setting on your co-op’s CMHC operating agreement. Did you know that, soon after, your co‑op will no longer...
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.
Client Compliance
In 2008, 70% of Agency clients met every term of their CMHC operating agreement. That's risen to 85%. Better grasp of the rules or better-run co-ops? Why not both?