CO-OP HOUSING INFORMATION EXCHANGE' ("CHIE") : Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

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>

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Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada

The Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada ("CHF Canada") is a self described umbrella group of non-profit-housing co-operatives, and national voice of the co-op housing movement in Canada since 1968. CHF Canada is also a lobbyist group that seek out funding from the Federal Government, Provinces, and Municipalities for Co-ops, and other non-profit housing. CHF is also a business that profits mainly from it's member Co-ops.

CHF Canada website main-page: CLICK HERE and their Mission and Values, Annual Meetings, NewsBriefs, and Protect Co-Op Housing You Hold the Key Ken's views and opinions: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada 2015 Annual Report in PDF: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada 2015 AGM minutes in PDF: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada 2014 AGM minutes in PDF: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada non-consolidated financial statements ending December 31, 2015: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada consolidated financial statements ending December 31, 2014: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada 2013 AGM minutes in PDF: CLICK HERE

In Ken's view, the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada has not published Annual General Membership meeting minutes on their Annual General Meeting Webpage since 2012 and CHF Canada has not published their Consolidated Financial Statements prior to 2007.

In Ken's view, CHF Canada has not published any of its Board of Directors meeting minutes on the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada website.

You may need to be a registered member with CHF Canada's Members Network to log into the Co-op housing resource center in order to access some educational materials, such as for example: Running Your Housing Co-op, Getting Governance Right, Getting Management Right, and End Of Agreements (EOA) Members' Network...and from the archives of CHF Canada Co-op Talk, some posted messages from their defunct network :: CLICK HERE

In Ken's view, CHF Canada falls short on their mission, values, and with transparency. Examples: CHF Canada does not disclose the remuneration of the Executive Director, and Staff..., and pander to its Member Housing Co-op's, Board of Directors and Management Staff.

Nicholas Gazzard, Executive Director, CHF Canada and lobbyist: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada's sole partner is the Agency for Co-operative Housing

Ken shares some views and opinions about CHF Canada and the Agency: CLICK HERE

Additional Information::

CHF Canada, and its member federation's lobbyist...play a roll in drafting legislation and encourage parliamentarian's in the Ontario legislature, and pass Bill 14 without further amendments into Law that give co-op housing member's less right's under Law than tenant's of landlord's: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada files application in Superior Court that orders Bridlewood Housing Cooperative into receivership and an order in 2012 that approves sale of the Co-op far below its market value to the Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada.

Since that point-in-time, and in 2016, CHF Canada has not transitioned the housing project that it owns back to the Co-op Housing Model and has refused to return its Housing Project back to the status of Non-Profit Co-operative Housing: CLICK HERE and CLICK HERE for more information!

North End United Housing Co-op receives Award for Best Practices for strong governance and sound management at the 2010 CHF Canada Annual General Meeting. The Co-op was ordered into receivership in 2012 and was later sold to the Nova Scotia Housing Development Corporation::

CLICK HERE And a 54-page Oversight Review places blame for the North End United (NEU) Housing Cooperative debacle that is shared by the NEU Co-op Board of Directors, CHF Canada, and the Nova Scotia, Department of Community Services: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada charges each of its member housing co-ops, membership dues. Co-op membership dues are levied against each co-op member unit.

Membership dues are $4.00 per unit, per month in 2014, $4.05 per unit, per month in 2015, and $4.15 per unit, per month in 2016.

In Ken's view, membership to CHF Canada is not a voluntary act for each individual member residing inside a co-op housing unit. Some individual co-op members' can be opposed to paying membership dues, as they don't support CHF Canada's agenda...

If you want to consider withholding monthly membership dues from the co-op that are paid to CHF Canada then consider writing a letter to the co-op board of directors explaining why you don't support paying membership dues towards CHF Canada...

You and your Co-op Membership can vote as being opposed to the approval of a proposed annual budget when the Co-op budget is presented for consideration with a budget line item that include expenses for membership dues to CHF Canada.

When submitting monthly housing charge payment's to the co-op, consider withholding $4.15 per unit, per month from your payment that represents your 2016 co-op unit dues for CHF Canada.

If your a resident member of a housing co-op that is a member of any CHF Canada regional housing federation, you may want to consider opting-out of that membership and withhold payments designated for any CHF Canada member housing federation

CHF Canada Ontario Region: CLICK HERE

Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto: CLICK HERE

Central Ontario Co-operative Housing Federation: CLICK HERE

Co-operative Housing Association of Eastern Ontario: CLICK HERE

Golden Horseshoe Co-operative Housing Federation: CLICK HERE

Peel-Halton Co-operative Association: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada's Southwestern Ontario office: CLICK HERE

Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia: CLICK HERE

CHF Canada Housing Links: CLICK HERE

Please note that there are many other Co-op and Non-Profit Housing Internet Websites that have no affiliation with CHF Canada that provide some similar educational materials about Co-op and Non-Profit Housing that don't require membership in order to access this type of information that can be noted on the CHIE Site.

Information may be added, revised or removed without prior notification.

Ken Hummel, Administrator, CHIE

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