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
2024 Utility Allowances for PEI
2024 Utility Allowances for Alberta
2024 Utility Allowances for British Columbia
2024 Utility Allowances for Ontario
News
The Tortoise Wins: The Agency’s 2023 Annual Report
For our 2023 Annual Report, the Agency is reflecting on its roots. Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, resonates...
A New HomeRun for Co-ops
Do you ever wonder how your co-op is really doing? You know your buildings, your books and your members better than...
Tip of the Month
Good Vacancy Loss
Some vacancy loss is by choice, because units are being refreshed for new members. So not a loss but an investment.