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
Case Studies of Housing Projects with Operating Agreements That Have Ended
CMHC
Sample Statutory Declaration Form
Agency for Co-operative Housing
News
Looking to Borrow in a Year or so? Introducing the HPC Housing Investment Corporation
30 September 2019
In February, British Columbia’s Community Land Trust (CLT) completed the refinancing for a building that houses two...
Renovations Photo Contest – Enter for a Chance to Win
26 September 2019
Has your co-op recently undergone a renovation? No matter how big or small, if you have a story to tell, we want to see...
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.
Vacancy Loss
At last count, Agency clients together lost $3.2 million to vacancies. That's down 47% from 2008.The improvement speaks for itself.