Tim Ross is the executive director of the Co-operative Housing Federation (CHF) Canada. CHF Canada is the national voice of co-operative housing, representing 2,200 housing co-operatives, home to a quarter of a million people in every province and territory. Co-operative housing is a well-documented success story. For more than 50 years, co-ops have provided good-quality, affordable housing owned and managed by the community members who live there.