WELCOME TO THE CO-OP HOUSING INFORMATION EXCHANGE ("CHIE")

YOU CAN SCROLL DOWN AND FIND BLOGS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED IN A LINK FOR YOU ON TWITTER...OR BY E-MAIL. IN THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN OF EACH PAGE YOU CAN TRANSLATE A PAGE INTO A LANGUAGE THAT YOU PREFER BY CLICKING THE TRANSLATE BUTTON AND ALSO VIEW A PAGE MENU FOR THIS SITE.

WELCOME TO THE NEW CO-OP HOUSING INFORMATION EXCHANGE THAT HAS A MANDATE TO SHARE FREE INFORMATION ABOUT CO-OPS, SOCIAL/COMMUNITY HOUSING, AND RESOURCES IN CANADA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

WHAT MUST BE REQUIRED IS PRINCIPLED LEADERSHIP, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT THAT INCLUDE ACCOUNTABILITY AT ALL NON-PROFIT HOUSING CO-OPERATIVES ACROSS CANADA, AROUND THE WORLD, AND ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE.

CO-OPERATION CAN LEAD TO SUCCESS THROUGH SHARING FREE KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND THEN UNDERSTANDING!

CHIE HELPS PUT TOGETHER ALL THE PIECES OF THE PUZZLE ABOUT NON-PROFIT CO-OP HOUSING IN CANADA, SO YOU CAN GAIN A BETTER PERSPECTIVE.
THE CULTURE OF SILENCE AT MEMBER CO-OPS NEEDS TO END THAT SURROUND THE PRACTICE OF POOR OR BAD GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT.

FOLLOW YOUR CHIE, NOT A FAILED STATUS QUO WITH SELF-SERVING CO-OP HOUSING STAKEHOLDERS.

CHIE IS A SELF-HELP SITE THAT IS YOURS TO DISCOVER. LEARN ABOUT AND ADOPT PRINCIPLED LEARDERSHIP, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. REVIEW INTERNAL CONTROLS, FRAUD DETECTION AND PREVENTION. LEARN ABOUT CO-OP STAKEHOLDERS, GOVERNING LAWS, AND NEWS MEDIA.

YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO EXPLORE MULTIBLE LINKS AREA AND ITEMS OF LEGISLATION THAT OFFER RESOURCES THAT MAY PROVIDE SOME SOLUTIONS FOR CANADIAN NON-PROFIT HOUSING CO-OPS AND NON-PROFIT HOUSING OUTSIDE CANADA IN DIFFICULTY OR CRISIS.

YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO RESEARCH CO-OP STAKEHOLDERS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND LEGISLATION THAT RELATE TO CO-OP'S IN YOUR PROVENCE OR STATE, AND COUNTRY. CHECK FOR INFORMATION UPDATES IN THE LINKS AREA AND OTHER LOCATIONS ON THE CHIE SITE.

IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE INFORMATION YOU ARE RESEARCHING ON CHIE OR KEN'S SITE, TRY SOME OF THE MANY LINKS AVAILABLE, EXAMPLE: CHF CANADA...

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A MEMBER TO FOLLOW YOUR CHIE!... BUT REGISTERED USERS THAT INCLUDE OPEN ID CAN POST COMMENTS ON CHIE.
**AS AT MARCH 2, 2014 YOU CAN NOW REGISTER AND JOIN THE CHIE SITE**

CHIE HAS A POLICY TO REVIEW AND DELETE MATERIAL OR COMMENTS THAT ARE DEEMED INAPPROPRIATE OR OFFENSIVE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE SITE ADMINISTRATOR. THE CHIE ADMINISTRATOR WILL NOT BE RESPONDING TO YOUR QUESTIONS OR ENQUIRES...

CO-OP AND SOCIAL HOUSING RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO START THEIR OWN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE, AND COMMUNICATE INFORMATION TO YOUR FELLOW RESIDENTS ABOUT CONCERNS WITH GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OR NOT DEMOCRATICALLY RUN WHERE RESIDENT VIEWS AND OPINIONS ARE SILENCED. EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITES INCLUDE BLOGGER, TWITTER, WORDPRESS, AND FACEBOOK, ETC...REMEMBER, FOLLOW YOUR CHIE!

SHARE YOUR STORIES WITH CHIE ABOUT CO-OP HOUSING BY USING THE CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW, AND IT MAY BE PUBLISHED ON THE CHIE SITE.

NOTICE ABOUT CHIE CONTENT AS AT JULY 16, 2017
SOME INFORMATION HAS BEEN TAKEN OUT OF VIEW FOR FURTHER REVIEW AND MAY BE RE-PUBLISHED A LATER POINT IN-TIME AFTER THE REVIEW HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND APPROVED


Ken Hummel, Administrator, Co-op Housing Information Exchange


Contact information, e-mail: <kenhummel@msn.com>




Wednesday

NOW TORONTO MAGAZINE

Now Toronto Magazine features news and archived articles about Co-op and Community Housing. Perform a search about Co-op Housing or read their current edition. Click link to access: http://www.tinyurl.com/5krby


June 21-28, 2012

By Adam Giambrone

"Taking stock of Toronto public housing"

http://www.tinyurl.com/74tw6uz


May 10-17, 2012

By Ben Spurr

"Affordable homes with hang-ups"

http://www.tinyurl.com/btkbyom


August 4-11, 2011

By Adria Vasil

"ECOHOLIC"---"I'm looking for an appartment. What are my eco-friendly options?

http://www.tinyurl.com/655g8nx


June 11, 2011

By Enzo Di Matteo

"Get real estate"---"case ootes, TCHC, and the Reality of Selling Shoddy Community Houses"

http://www.tinyurl.com/6jr3fh8


May 9, 2011

By Ben Spurr

"CITY"---"Jane's Walk: backyard chickens and changes in Regent Park"

http://www.tinyurl.com/6fmws7h


March 10-17, 2011

By Josh Hume

"This "Scandal" is no stunner...unless You're Rob Ford and want to make political hay out of it."

http://www.tinyurl.com/6g7ukks


March 9-16, 2011

By Enzo Di Matteo

"Rob Ford's house call"---"The Mayor pulls every manoeuvre in the book to push through his hostile takeover of Toronto Community Housing"

http://www.tinyurl.com/64rvh46


March 4, 2011

By Enzo Di Matteo, News Editor

"TCHC fought the mayor, and the mayor won"---"Toronto Community Housing chair David Mitchell and the rest of the city appointees on the board resign"

http://www.tinyurl.com/4w3v3kv


December 2-9, 2009

By Enzo Di Matteo

"CITY HALL"---"Wellesley housing fix"

http://www.tinyurl.com/63qbxc5


June 16-23, 2009

By Enzo Di Matteo

"Social housing sell off"

http://www.tinyurl.com/68k3afy


July 17-24, 2008

By Enzo Di Matteo

"Public housing's about face"

http://www.6e7e7a5


February 15-22, 2007

By Jenny Yuen

"Shelter Scramble"---"Are Shelter Closings part of a Strategy to Push Homeless out of the Core"

http://www.tinyurl.com/6zua3kf


January 24, 2007

By Len Desroches

"Shelter from the norm"---"My Escape From a Lifetime in Dodgy Rooming Houses"

http://tinyurl.com/66pqb79


March 23-30, 2006

By Wayne Roberts

"Building our own"---"I was part of one of this country's most novel housing experiments. We could do it again if only pols stopped thinking of shelter as a business."

http://www.tinyurl.com/4uep6uf


March 23-30, 2006

By Andrew Cash

"The big co-op squeeze"---"Fed's cash grab wipes out thousands of subsidized units in city desperate for cheap housing"

..."CMHC assesses how much subsidy money it will give to a co-op based on its mortgage. Because interest rates have been going down over the last 10 to 15 years, co-ops are saving money when their mortgage rolls over. CMHC says these savings should be put toward the co-op's internal subsidy pool, thereby reducing the amount CMHC coughs up."


"Sounds fair, right? If you're saving a buck on your mortgage, that's a buck the feds shouldn't need to give you for your subsidies. The problem is that for over a decade CMHC has been slowly starving co-ops' subsidy pools by withholding far more than co-ops are saving."

http://www.tinyurl.com/5r55ac6


March 23-30, 2006

By Robert Priest

"The Bain of my existence"---"Living Jointly and Jovially under the Maples"

http://www.tinyurl.com/6bbwpkt


June 30 - July 7, 2005

By Debbie O'Rourke

"Finding feverfew"---"Ghosts haunt my sunrise hunt for the healing herb that can save my lover's aching head"

http://www.tinyurl.com/3pxvdjb


June 3-10, 2004

By John Bacher

"Jack right about Paul"---"Axing of federal grants to housing undoubtedly caused homeless deaths"

http://www.tinyurl.com/3lm6csa


May 20-27, 2004

By John Bacher

"Polemical Jocobs"---"Jacobs praises former Toronto mayor David Crombie for intergrating Toronto's social housing into the fabric of city neighbourhoods, but then ducks the controversial question of why construction of the projects ceased. Earlier she suggests it was because they were badly planned, autocratically run and not popular with either taxpayers or tenants."

http://www.tinyurl.com/6egolz3


January 9-16, 2003

By Helen Armstrong

"Roll of the Dice in Regent"---"Will Massive Redesign Allow Community to get beyond its Troubles?"

http://tinyurl.com/68mg7cv


Archived Issues: 1999, Vol. 19, No. 01, Page 21

"HOUSING"

By Alec Scott

"Co-op board resigns en masse"

"Everyone's keeping mum about the recent putsch at the Windmill Line Housing Co-op near the St. Lawrence Market."


"According to the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which oversees the co-op, the existing board of directors resigned and will not be replaced before the September 8 general meeting."


"Some residents were not satisfied with the board's management according to Judith Collins of the Co-op Housing Federation of Toronto. The now boardless co-op's office will not divulge details."


"What is the public interest in this?"---"asks co-op member Muriel Cassidy. "We're trying to keep this all in the family."

http://www.tinyurl.com/4drd8vs




Information noted above may be revised and/or deleted without prior notification.




Ken Hummel, Administrator, CHIE

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