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  Housing Development & Counseling Call us: 330.455.6385    
 

 

Association for Better Community Development, Inc. (ABCD) sponsors the following housing developments:  Helping to provide affordable housing to moderate income families , ABCD Inc. has developed apartments, single family and condominium homes.  Along with providing new housing for families, our developments also help to revitalize older neighborhoods.

  • Orchard Grove Apartments - a 24 unit complex in Alliance, Ohio for people who derive the majority of their income from farm labor.  These are the first such units constructed in Ohio.

  • ABCD Homes - ABCD, Inc. has constructed 30 new houses and renovated 10 primarily in the northeast section of Canton.  The houses, financed primarily by tax credits, are designed to blend in with the neighborhood and serve as a basis for revitalization and stabilization of the respective neighborhoods.

  • ABCD Homes II - Includes 35 new units and 3 renovated units.

  • Cherry Homes - a 30 unit 4 bedroom scattered site development.

  • Gateway Place - a 29 unit 4 bedroom scattered site development primarily in the Southeast. 

  • Massillon Homes I - a 50 unit complex financed primarily by tax credits whereby ABCD Inc. serves as a Development Consultant.

  • Massillon Homes II - a 30 unit complex.

  • Queen Esther's Estates - is composed of 33 Cottages for the elderly in Southeast Canton, Ohio and completed in 2008.

  • Wilson Pointe - a 40 unit, three story complex for the elderly in Canton, Ohio located at 6th. Street NW and McKinley Ave. Wilson Pointe Elderly complex is named after Dr. Doris Wilson who served as former Chairperson of ABCD, Inc. Board of Directors.

  • Brewster Homes - is a partnership between ABCD, Inc., Zephyr Homes and the Stark county Regional Planning Commission to sponsor the construction of 8 new homes in the City of Brewster, Ohio in 2008 and 2009.

  • The City of Canton Initiative - is a 6 unit development.


  • ABCD is certified as a Community Housing Development Organization (CHODO) by the state, county and city governments.  Funds received from the various entities help to acquire and renovate houses and sell them to first time homeowners.  Plans include targeting houses which are in close proximity to the previous mentioned developments.

  • In 2005, ABCD became certified as a HUD Counseling Agency through the Mission of Peace CDC, a HUD intermediary organization. This certification permits ABCD to provide pre/post purchasing counseling, credit counseling, down payment assistance, foreclosure prevention, reverse mortgages, homebuyers club, tenant and rental issues and financial literacy.

  • ABCD serves as a "Community Organizer" and works with such neighborhood groups as the Gateway Association, Concerned  Citizens for the 4th. Ward, Southwest Association of Neighbors and the Cherry Avenue Neighborhood Development Organization to enable them to bring about improvements in their respective neighborhoods.

 

Transportation - ABCD Dial-A-Ride Call us: 330.455.2699    

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Since 1978 ABCD Dial-A-Ride has been providing transportation services for the elderly, handicapped and low income people.  With a daily rider ship average of 250 people, ABCD offers both fixed route and on demand door to door service.

 

We offer door to door service to the elderly through our Title III contract with the Area Agency on Aging, 10B, Inc.  Drivers are available to help assist seniors getting in and out of our vehicles, as well as being responsive to individuals needs and their unique pickup and drop-off times.  ABCD Dial-A-Ride  is also an integral part of the PASSPORT program whose aim is to keep seniors in their homes longer.  By providing them with transportation, they are able to get out and do essential tasks such as shopping and making necessary medical appointments.

 

Helping individuals with making the transition form public assistance to self-sufficiency, our Title XX contract with the Stark County Department of Human Services enables them to get to work and back home again.  Other  transportation related services for them are also available as they prepare to become self-sufficient.

 

During 2009 ABCD was awarded a three year contact to  transport people to receive Dialysis Treatment; medical care resulting from the treatments and trips to Cleveland for SSI disability appeals.

 

ABCD also contracts with the Jobs Access Reverse Commuters Program (JARC), helping ex-offenders with transportation to job sites, which is vital to their re-entry into the community.

 

Other transportation programs include contracts with colleges, hotels, churches, day care centers, schools, travel agencies, social service providers and corporations, to name a few.

 

 

Energy Conservation Call us: 330.455.6385    

ABCD, Inc. insulates 250 houses per year and installs 50 furnaces, through a contract with the Cleveland Housing Network, and funding primarily from the East Ohio Gas Company and government funding. All houses are furnished with carbon monoxide detectors.

 

Through a contract with the Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy and funding from Ohio Edison and First Energy, ABCD conducts electrical audits and when necessary, light bulbs and refrigerators are replaced. 

 

ABCD has enabled the creation of a Minority firm which Insulates houses known as' Urban Green Solutions'

 

Community Economic Development Call us: 330.455.6385  

ABCD, Inc. operates the Center for Entrepreneurial Development.  EANDC Property Management and ABCD administrative offices are two such organizations currently housed in the 12th Street offices.  Located in ABCD's 13th Street offices and sponsored by ABCD is Auto, Inc.  AUTO provides training for careers in the automotive  industry.  ABCD Dial-A-Ride also operates out of the facility and serves as the facility managers.