Who We Are

Peel/Halton Co-operative Housing Federation (PHCHF) is a co-operative association made up of member housing co-ops and related organizations in the Peel/Halton area.

Members send delegates to federation meetings to represent their co-op, and elect (or run for) the board of directors at the annual general meeting.

You can represent the interests of your members by adding your co-op’s voice to the co-operative housing movement. Our strength and longevity have endured because co-ops have joined together to create a strong federation, and we invite you to join us.

PHCHF is financed by annual membership dues, fees for services, and revenue shared by CHF Canada.

PHCHF is managed by a seven-member volunteer Board of Directors – from member housing co-ops within the catchment area. PHCHF currently employs one staff person.

Understanding Your Local Federation

Click here to view a two-page PDF flyer explaining who we are and what we do.

Memorandum of Co-operation

This memorandum of co-operation was signed on June 8, 2018, by the Executive Directors of the five Ontario co-op housing federations and CHF Canada.

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Our History

In the Fall of 1981 members from several housing co-operatives throughout the Peel/Halton Region met to discuss the idea of creating an Inter Co-op Council. Over the next year, a Steering Committee made up of representatives of most of the co-ops in the region had been trying out various political, social, and organizational activities as a means of testing the interest of the broader co-op housing membership in the Council.

After the initial trial year, the Peel/Halton Inter-Co-op Council took its first steps in 1982 as a regional organization serving the needs of its member co-ops in the Peel and Halton Regions. In 1984, we were officially incorporated and the name was amended to Peel/Halton Co-operative Housing Federation.

Today, Peel/Halton Co-operative Housing Federation (PHCHF) is a member-supported organization representing more than 4,000 units of housing co-ops in the Regions of Peel & Halton and Dufferin County.

PHCHF is one of five regional co-operative housing federations that make up the OCHF group