This month, the Agency is excited to welcome a new batch of co-op clients to the Rental Assistance Program (FCHI-2).
After the federal government’s announcement of $118.2 million in new funding earlier this year, co-ops with operating agreements that expired before April 2016 were able to sign on
A refuge for activists who strive for social justice in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side
A roof garden with a heart-lifting view that looks to the ocean and the loom of mountains
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Bosky pocket-garden terraces and a meeting room with a full
The Agency saw 2021 as a bridge year of transition from one reality to another. Once we’d made the crossing, 2022 looked like The Open Road to us.
The road ahead is full of possibilities.
In 2022, we began to work with co-ops that had been shut out from the Rental Assistance Program because their
The Agency’s director from the Prairies Region has now retired after serving three three-year terms. Ken McFarland will be missed for more than his stellar ability to dig into a set of financial statements.
A chartered accountant and former member of a Toronto housing co-operative, Ken served as
Every two years the Agency produces our Portfolio Performance Review, which goes to CMHC and is posted on our website in English and French. The review is based on information from co-ops’ Annual Information Returns, which we combine in different ways and compare with past results.
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We’ve recently been reviewing the performance of our co-op housing portfolio over the years since CMHC entrusted us with its oversight in 2006. Here are a few fast facts we’d like to share with you.
Overall, our clients are continuing to do well, and we’d like to think our data-driven, risk-based
Donna Charbonneau has been many things and seen many places during her years in the co-operative housing movement. She began in 1993 as the co-ordinator of Newmarket Housing Co-operative, moving within a few years to Rainbow Circle, and then to Ramer’s Wood in Markham. The grassroots experience of
Alexandra Wilson, the Agency’s founding Chief Executive Officer, will retire at the end of March. She ends a 47-year career in the co-operative housing movement, including 16 years leading the Agency.
The Agency’s Board of Directors undertook a wide search to find the right CEO for the next phase
We are delighted to announce a few new leaders at the Agency for Co-operative Housing. They may be new leaders, but they are the same friendly faces you have come to know. With Olga Tasci moving into the role of Chief Executive Officer, her previous position of Director, Operations was vacant
The Annual Information Return is the online form your auditor files on your behalf with the Agency for Co-operative Housing. Several back-up documents accompany the filing:
In 2008, 70% of Agency clients met every term of their CMHC operating agreement. Now 80% do. And compliance failures, great and small, are also fewer.