Managing Your Business
Partners in Your Success
Explore great business resources from the Agency, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, CMHC and other sources.
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 Manager Resources
Q&A: Annual Information Return (AIR) For Housing Co-ops
This is a short guide to better understanding the Annual Information Return (AIR) for housing co-ops and the importance of filing on time.
2024 Utility Allowances for PEI
2024 Utility Allowances for Alberta
News
11 February 2025
2023 Changes to the Ontario Co-op Corporations Act: What You Need to Know
When the Co-op Corporations Act in Ontario was updated in 2023, a number of changes were made. Your co-op's by-laws need...
9 January 2025
A New Look for Federations and Management Company Snapshot Reports
It’s not just our co-op clients who benefit from performance data from the Agency. We also like to share aggregated data...
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.