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Canton Repository (12/7/23) A year after crews demolished the troubled Canton Inn, the plans – and funding – for a new family housing complex on the site are taking shape. A half-mile away on Shorb Avenue NW, a market offering free fresh food opened last week. And Canton officials have committed more city and federal funds to the Shorb neighborhood to help homeowners improve their homes and to help developers build new ones. "The neighborhood, with the challenges it has, didn't get this way in just two years," said Don Ackerman, executive director of Canton For All People and lead pastor of Crossroads United Methodist…

Canton Repository (2/9/23) Three newly constructed houses, eight renovated residences and a community center. Those are what Canton For All People intends to accomplish in the greater Shorb neighborhood this year. In the past eight months, the community development corporation created by Crossroads United Methodist Church and the Lemmon and DeHoff family foundations has purchased 11 properties, demolishing two that were not safe to renovate, said Don Ackerman, lead pastor at Crossroads and executive director of Canton For All People. "Primarily, we're here to rebuild the neighborhood," he said.  The city and Canton For All People each produced their own studies…