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
2023 Utility Allowances for Alberta
2023 Utility Allowances for British Columbia
2023 Utility Allowances for PEI
2023 Utility Allowances for Ontario
News
New Good Practices Video on Filing Your AIR
2 May 2023
Every year, Agency clients ask their auditor to web-file their Annual Information Return (AIR) to fulfill their annual...
Co-op and Rental Housing in 2023: What to Expect
14 December 2022
The Agency is excited to present some cautious predictions about rental and co-op housing markets in 2023. We...
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.
Client Compliance
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.