ACDC's Comprehensive Housing Opportunities Program (CHOP) offers a variety of assistance for renters, homebuyers, and homeowners to help secure and stabilize safe, high quality, affordable housing.  Through education and advocacy, CHOP helps build  healthy homes and communities.

The homeownership rate in Chinatown is nearly 10%, far below the City rate. 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 homebuyers and homeowners.  Counseling is provided in Mandarin, Cantonese and English and services include:

• Monthly First-Time Homebuyer (HB 101) class ($40 fee per household)
• Pre-purchase homebuyer counseling (free)
• Mortgage delinquency counseling (free)
• Rental assistance counseling (free)
• Fair housing workshops (free)
• Financial literacy workshops (free)
• Post-purchase homeowner education (free)

You do not need to be a dues-paying member in order to receive housing information, counseling, or any other CHOP services.
 

ACDC's regular business hours are Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. The front desk will assist you in scheduling an appointment and recording your request should a counselor not be available immediately during those hours. If necessary, counselors may be available for appointments outside of our regular business hours. Questions and appointment scheduling can be made via:

chop@asiancdc.org or call (617) 482-2380 x208

CHOP open office hours (no appointment necessary):
Monday 1pm-4pm
Wednesday 9am-12pm
Thursday 1pm-4pm

A housing counselor will be available to answer your questions without an appointment during these times. Although not required, we advise clients to schedule an appointment to avoid wait time. 

Upcoming HB101 First-time homebuyer class schedule:
September 25 &26, 9am - 3pm (English)
October 23 & 24, 9am - 3pm (Mandarin)

November 20 & 21, 9am - 3pm (Cantonese)
 

Class Registration
To register for a class, please fill out the course registration form[doc] and mail it to: CHOP, Asian CDC, 38 Oak Street, Boston, MA 02111, or email to chop@asiancdc.org, 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.

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 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.