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A housing co-op is people who together own or control the building(s) in which they live. Instead of buying “real” property, you buy stock or a membership in a cooperative...

Read the lease. Read the lease. Read the lease. When most people hear the term “lease,” they think of the long sheets of paper written in very small type that...

A Step-by-Step Tool to Support the Development of Cooperatives and Other Forms of Self-Help Organization

To receive funding through the Rental Assistance Program (FCHI-2), CMHC is requesting that housing providers contribute to strengthening the housing sector by enhancing their own long-term operational practices.

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This research documented promising practices of federally assisted housing projects that have transitioned to a post-subsidy environment and continued to provide affordable housing.

CMHC Mortgage Loan Insurance for Multi-Unit Residential Properties

In an effort to combat dwindling budgets and vanishing resources while demand for services continues to increase, many nonprofits seek opportunities to collaborate in new ways – leveraging resources, sharing...

Nonprofit or cooperative? Questions about the differences between these two types of legal entities are often part of early discussions about cooperative development.

This report presents a general overview of how cooperative and key concepts are measured for statistical purposes. It is based on extant work and literature. The first part of the report...

A guide for housing providers

Our vision of a cooperative economy is of an interdependent, dense network of enterprises and institutions that allow us to meet our needs through principled, democratic ownership, and that care...

"The co-operative ideal is as old as human society. It is the idea of conflict and competition as a principle of economic progress that is new."

Due to certain similarities, the chart below provides a simplified comparison of the housing cooperative and condominium. While both are considered common interest communities, the internal structures are completely separate.

At a time when income inequality is on the rise around the world, it is essential to remember that solutions to inequality exist. The co-operative model is foremost among these.

“A combination of factors, including the rising cost of housing in recent years, has forced many people to look for alternative housing options. This guide to co-op housing attempts to...

A housing cooperative can be a high-rise apartment building, a garden-style apartment, a townhouse, a single-family home, a senior housing complex, or a manufactured home park.

Co-operatives were originally established as a practical way to help working people use self-help to improve their conditions.

Today’s economic climate is marked by growing insecurity in the face of structural changes to work, benefits, and business ownership. Small business start-ups are at their all-time lows, and entrepreneurship...

The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) was chartered by Congress in 1978 and privatized as a cooperatively owned financial institution in 1981, currently owned by 2,900 customers/owners.

Co-operative Values and Principles are embodied in the Statement of Co-operative Identity, published by the International Co-operative Alliance.

Based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity, cooperatives put people at the heart of their business.

Although co-operative housing is widespread and has a significant impact on the quality of life of millions of people, our housing sector remains relatively underappreciated. This joint report represents the...