Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada (CHF)
Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada (CHF)
Founded in 1968, CHF Canada is the nation-wide umbrella organization for co-op housing and Canada’s link with co-op housing around the world. It exists to unite, represent and serve the co-op housing community across Canada. CHF Canada works actively for the growth, stability and independence of the co-operative housing movement in Canada. As part of the larger co-operative movement, it promotes the practice of co-operation in Canada and abroad.
Membership includes housing co-ops, federations of housing co-operatives, associations of co-op housing staff, co-op management companies, and sponsoring organizations. CHF Canada offers a range of services and benefits to its members, including representation, advice, education, support and information.
CHF Canada’s international work is carried out through Rooftops Canada Foundation, an international development organization founded and supported by CHF Canada and its members.
affordable housing, cooperative housing, developing countries, energy efficiency in housing, housing finance, housing policy, housing subsidies, low-cost housing, social housing
Documents are available in several areas of the site:
• About co-op housing: Includes What is a housing co-op, We live in co-ops (on the diversity of members of housing co-ops), Finding a housing co-op, Starting a housing co-op, Staff of housing co-ops, Co-ops for students, Co-op housing around the world
• CHF Canada: Includes Frequently asked questions, Mission, mandate and values, Our members, Board and committees, and Our international work (a presentation and link to the website of Rooftops Canada Foundation)
• Ontario region: Includes Mission and mandate, Co-operative housing in Ontario, Ontario Region annual meetings
• Publications and resources: This section includes:
• Newsbriefs: Includes issues of CHF Canada’s newsletter National edition, and Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Southwestern Ontario editions
• eNews: Co-op Housing News, the email bulletin for Ontario Municipal Service Managers, is available online free and in full text; CHF Canada’s eNews, national edition and Ontario Region eAlerts is available to members only
• Annual reports
• CHF Canada media releases
• Ontario Region media releases
• Co-op housing in the news
• On-line documents index: Includes Co-operative principles and identities, Political correspondence, Housing co-op replacement reserves, Public policy – National, Public policy – Ontario, Ontario Region documents of note
• Glossary of co-op housing terms
• Education events
• Making our voice heard: Includes Speaking up for co-ops, Section 95 co-ops, Fix the SHRA campaign, Leaky co-ops, Housing needs in Ontario
• Federations and regional offices
• Links
• 2020 Vision Project: Documents relating to the end of the operating agreements with the federal government and the development of a vision for the future of housing co-ops and the co-op housing movement, and of tools and resources to make that vision a reality, includes Background, The 2020 co-op, 2020 Toolkit
Several documents are available free and in full text in HTML and PDF format. The password-protected area of the website contains documents accessible only to members.
Contact information
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P9
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P9
Suite 201, 1099 Marginal Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3E 4P7
Suite 313, 720 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2T9
Suite 192, 162-2025 Corydon Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3P 0N5
Suite 204, 5550 Fraser St
Vancouver, British Columbia
V5W 2Z4
Winnipeg:
(204) 947-5411
(888) 591-3301
Halifax:
(902) 423-7119
(866) 213-2667
Toronto:
(416) 366-1711
(800) 268-2537
(519) 453-0999
(800) 644-3949
Ottawa:
(613) 230-2201
(800) 465-2752
Vancouver:
(604) 879-4116
(877) 533-2667
Winnipeg:
(204) 947-5412
Halifax:
(902) 423-7058
Toronto:
(416) 366-3876
(519) 453-6854
Ottawa:
(613) 230-2231
Vancouver:
(604) 879-4186
