
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
Rent Supplements Program Guide for Ontario Co-ops
Ontario Annual Income and Asset Review Form
Rental Assistance Program Tips and Tricks - Edition Number 1 2025
2025 Utility Allowances for Ontario
2025 Utility Allowances for Alberta
2025 Utility Allowances for British Columbia
News
2024 Housing Co-op Performance Data Paints a Picture of a Strong Sector
Two decades into the Agency’s oversight of federally administered housing co-ops, we’re proud to say that many are doing...
Making Sense of Your Dollars and Cents
When the Agency for Co-operative Housing was established in 2005, our mission was clear: help federally funded housing...
Tip of the Month
Co-ops without Paid Managers
Since 2007, the percentage of co-ops without paid help is down by more than half to a mere 2% of Agency clients. Another 12% just have a lonely bookkeeper.