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
Reference Guide TRA 24 March 2021
Agency for Co-operative Housing
TRA commitment letter sample
Agency for Co-operative Housing
TRA agreement sample
Agency for Co-operative Housing
News
Our Newest Leaders
25 March 2021
We are delighted to announce a few new leaders at the Agency for Co-operative Housing. They may be new leaders, but they...
The Offer We’ve Been Waiting For: Temporary Rental Assistance
16 February 2021
Special one-time rental assistance is now available to housing co-operatives and non-profit housing providers whose...
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.
Plans in Action
The average co-op with an approved capital replacement plan tucks away more than $2,700 per unit in reserves each year--almost double the 2007 amount of $1,165. Future generations of co-op members thank you.