Comprehensive Housing Opportunities Program (CHOP)

ACDC's Comprehensive Housing Opportunities Program (CHOP) helps foster economic development, leadership, and empowerment of community members through education and advocacy. When ACDC began its work, the owner-occupancy in Chinatown, at merely 5%, was the lowest in the city.

Today, thanks to the completion of our latest development, The Metropolitan, that percentage has doubled to 10%, but there is still much work to be done to improve access for new immigrants and linguistic minorities.  These community members face considerable barriers in achieving literacy in US financial systems and homeownership.

CHOP, through targeted homeownership education seeks increase access to the tools and resources available to first-time homeowners.  We offer First-Time Homebuyer (HB 101) workshops in both Cantonese and Mandarin.  We also provide one-on-one counseling to assist limited English speakers with applications for housing and financial resources, such as the SoftSecond program.   

CHOP open office hours:
Monday 1pm-4pm
Wednesday 9am-12pm
Thursday 1pm-4pm

Drop in with any questions you may have, a counselor will be available to assist you.  Should you need assistance outside open office hours, appointments can be made at any time during regular business hours. 

HB101 First-time homebuyer workshop schedule:
July 24 & 25, 9am - 3pm
August 28 & 29, 9am - 3pm
Classes are bilingual in Mandarin and Cantonese.  Class fee is $40.

Class Registration
To register for a class, please fill out the course registration form [1][doc] and email to chop@asiancdc.org [2] or call (617) 482-2380 x208.

Foreclosure Prevention Hotline serivce for AAPIs
You may call 1-888-995-HOPE (4673), a national hotline established by the Homeownership Preservation Foundation that provides free foreclosure prevention counseling by counselors at HUD approved agencies.  The HOPE hotline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and provides enhanced translation service in over a hundred languages. For more information about the HOPE hotline please visit www.foreclosurehelpandhope.org [3].

For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are at risk of foreclosure and need language assistance to access counseling services, now there is a Speakeasy Foreclosure Prevention Hotline, 1-323-431-0193, made available by the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) in partnership with the Homeownership Preservation Foundation. Callers to the Speakeasy hotline will be able to receive free counseling in AAPI languages from housing counselors at National CAPACD member organizations. The hotline is currently in Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese, and is available Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm. 

Additional Information
The Asian Community Development Corporation is a member organization of the National CAPACD [4] and a certified housing counseling agency. To learn more on the services we provide, please call (617) 482 2380 x208, or email chop@asiancdc.org [2].