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
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
2024 Utility Allowances for British Columbia
News
Thank you from Your Friends at the Agency
Your co-op’s needs and concerns, as we understand them, are at the core of the services and tools the Agency provides...
In Arrears? Who, Me?
A director is in arrears when they owe their co-op money. Simple. Easy to understand.
In the old days (B.A.: Before the...
Tip of the Month
No Vacancy Loss
28% of Agency clients lost no money to vacancies last year. Good, if this means members chose to stay in their units. Bad, if new members moved into units that hadn’t been refreshed.