Monday, July 18, 2011

FW: blog

The  headline reads:  “Astorino:Hud actions go too far”  about the HUD lawsuit against Westchester county..`150 million dollar lawsuit. Long before anylawsuit..Habitat of Westchester built its first housei n Larchmont in 1988. Since then homes in Somers, and Bedford in non traditional towns have been built byHabitat…with no government help.

Yet Habitat has not been asked to help with building any of the homes now by the county.  Some past scandals have seen certain contractors get the jobs in home building…

We have worked with the county on homes in Portchester and some other areas.  The key is to help move quicker…..everytime I work in super dense neighborhoods…to help build homes, and then seen tracks of land that are acres upon acres of land, I wonder…why…we don’t want to see density…of unhealthy proportions. But when in this day and age. Kids go to schools with no books, in some cities, while other kids have the best education in some towns, but no diversity..a question asking why is vital.  When kds get shot at…while others kids go off to their second house for a week vacation…you ask why…when non governmental communities that are led by faith need to go out and build with us once a month..while outside their doors no homes..i ask why…

The Whys need to be answered…the smoke and mirror continues to be taken off the mirrors, so all politicians..Democrats and Republicans, all leaders, no matter what denomination…can join together and say..wait ..cant we build the most beautiful affordable green homes in the world here with Habitat…every day I ask why…..the answers lie in you and yours helping! God bless you

 

Jim Killoran

Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street

New Rochelle, NY

Jim@habitatwc.org

Office: 914-636-8335x101

 

 

 

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