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
Temporary Rental Assistance Calculation Sheet
2021 Utility Allowances for Ontario
CMHC
2021 Utility Allowances for Prince Edward Island
CMHC
News
Temporary Rental Assistance Funding goes to 102 Co-ops
14 May 2021
Late last year the Agency swung into action at CMHC’s call. We were asked to get temporary rental assistance to co-ops...
2021 Utility Allowances
19 April 2021
CMHC has provided the Agency with the 2021 utility allowances.
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
Half the Agency's clients have member arrears and bad debts below $43 a unit, and half above. In 2007, the midpoint was $83. Great work, boards and managers! Members too!