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
Guide to Tendering for Property Management Services
Agency for Co-operative Housing
Summary of Co-operative and its Management Requirements
Agency for Co-operative Housing
Property Management Services Tender Call - Bid Form
Agency for Co-operative Housing
News
New S61 Mortgage Prepayment Deadlines
20 December 2018
For a limited time, S61 co-ops can apply to pay out their high-interest CMHC mortgages without penalty. To do so, they...
The Conversation Continues on Social Media
14 November 2018
The Agency is exploring new and dynamic ways to keep you informed and interested. On November 14, we will dive into the...
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.
Arrears Cost
Median arrears have fallen from $80 to $51 per unit since 2007. Great improvement! Still, think what co-ops could do with that $51.