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This weekend we are rededicating our command center and our work in Hurricane Sandy at Christ Community Church.  We have had thousands of people go through that Church, we continue and rededicate our selves spiritually to continue to help those in need…those who need to be able to get back in their homes, to have less anxiety….we pray and work harder than ever!

With that in mind this week we helped work on five #Sandy relief homes..and we also helped to be able to finish the command center, as well as work on helping some one in the Rockaways get into an apartment with security, due to Sandy assistance funds running out….the case studies on all this will be amazing…we still are not ready for disaster…That is why I proposed to the now defunct #MorelandCommission, Jan 24, 2013 the  creation of a #NationalDisasterUniversity…where every utility worker in the country become certified…if NY goes under the country goes…in the midst of sandy relief I was invited after having been interviewed be #CefanKim of #news12…about my idea…to share my idea…in the midst of sandy relief still three months after…thick of things…we continued day to day…90 days ago the Governor and Vice President Joe Biden  announced the need for a national disaster university…what a great idea..haha,  we were not included nor invited..stay tuned.

We work harder than ever with our team and volunteers today in Sandy relief.

We also work in Yonkers and New Rochelle and Mt Vernon on the tri cities neighborhood inititiave..NRI..its GOOD TO BE IN THE HOOOD!  ..For sure… as I want to check early morning in Mt Vernon and New Rochelle today at 6am, like I do often, watering our gardens…helping to make them NMU..people come by and say..can I help you…like early evening Carolina Rodriguez, a great person, and actually a Miss Westchester contestant..She saw me in the garden stopped and she and her friend Vickie with other are going to help!   How goes your garden grow in the hood..with neighbors like Caroline and Vickie, or Janelle who helped in New Rochelle or DJ in Yonkers with Will…all wanting more green space in their neighborhoods…

As green goes up crime goes down…as home ownership goes up, education goes up and crime goes down…so we green every neighborhood..

Today we also build in Yonkers on #Veterans homes…Ivan and his family cant wait.  Thank you #GoldmanSachs for your continuing commitment to helping us.   We also yesterday closed on Rose Browns home In #whitePlains…an amazing feat to see done..congrads Rose, in memory of Ralph Degnan, who helped build it and passed, may you be blessed always and for generations to come….an amazing home…

 

May God bless you ..let the truth be known..may we go forth, to make this world much better…we HAVE TO! For future generations…..NMU..No More Ugly, Green and a simple decent home for all. jjk

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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ITS GOOD TO BE IN THE  HOOD…

We target neighborhoods, revitalization, safety, hope, homes, gardens, goodnees, love, life, parks and people..everyone gets lifted up! Lets go….

Help us..ITS GOOD TO BE IN THE HOOD!

We are targeting every neighborhood we are in…we are just beginning..our thousands of volunteers, schools that help, families that love us..we look forward to changing neighborhoods together…

The war on poverty, fifty years out, should have ended by now! We believe that and to that end…we continue….to change lives to change hoods ..to help bring hope and homes…

THE GATEWAYS NEIGHBORHOOD….in Mt Vernon

SONO NEW ROCHELLE on Main St in New Rochelle south of north and all around..

BATTLE HILL BUSINESS DISTRICT..on Ashburton, from Warburton to Nepperhan..its good to be in the hood..

Help us…a full plan to revitalize…!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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We welcome the Kabbalists to our site today, though who study Zohar, wisdom, love light and action..perhaps too simple on my part. In my life I have been exposed through disaster of Sandy, so many different religions..not just the traditional three, but those of religions from all over the world. Always intrigued, we see that religions move ahead, that most love life, and people and look for some type of action. That is why the theology of the hammer is so profound, so important, so valuable…we all see the light, have the light of love and God in our hearts, but then are moved to pick up the hammer, the hoe, the sheetrock, the walls of love, the garden greens, the weeds, the seeds, the nails, the shingles, the wood..all to help move the world ahead in a different way, in a different light and love, in better neighborhoods and community and peace. To this we recommit  today our efforts..stronger than ever…..NMU No More Ugle, NMP No More Poverty..NMV…No more Violence..only love..we love you, have a blessed day! jjk

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Today I started super early in our gardens, new rochelle, mt Vernon, yonkers…checking out their quality, watering, and seeing how the day rises for people in different hoods..remember its good to be in the hood..no question..one business owner stops..jim way to go…I get in Sundays early for paper work, didn’t know you did this, Frank runs a nursery, we give him business, part of our neighborhood efforts to support local, while going green and building green…there in Mt Vernon, we have rehabbed an old bank building into a chamber and habitat offices, planted more than 50 planters, created our restore, worked with local police and businesses to kick out drugs and trouble..and helped to create the Gateways Initiative..

While writing this blog…Katie calls, I live in rockaways, I want to help you for four weeks before I go to college..awesome!

We are still in Sandy relief..few people believe or know it or care..many still aren’t back in their homes yet…

We have community gardens we were just asked to start in breezy at our command center at Christ Community Church.

I have also proposed a National Disaster University be created back in the Rockways, on 108^th st..stay tuned..the Governor heard my idea in the Moreland Commission hearings, but never invited me when he used the idea, 80 days agao, when he announced it with VP Biden…show the love here Gov….I proposed it Jan 24, 2013 on record at Suny Purchase before your commission.

Ok back to neighborhood development, cause and effect..taxes too high…

Development development development…if you want development, it should make the life of citizens easier right… in 25 years in NY owning, now once did my taxes go down, anywhere…the burden has gotten tougher, forty year tax breaks, making a few millionaires for those who got tax breaks, the average citizenry did not get any relief..is that bright leadership..or decision making..i think now..now NY sees an exodus, with challenged affordable housing, and foreign investment jacking up real estate costs, while gentrifying, makes no sense to me….

So our mission continues. To fight for a long term intergenearational ny, one that will see us not burdened, that development will be from the bottom up…and that people can live for generations with home ownership and opportunity and jobs.  Stay tuned.

God bless, you, jjk

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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It has been an interesting week and fourth…today I went to church in Spanish at St marys in one of our turnover neighborhoods, the Gateways Initiative.  This neighborhood has been totally changed by us..opening the chamber and habitat offices, helping to kick out drugs and prostitutes, creating some pride and green space.. a new urban garden…on mcquestin and mt Vernon Avenue and also creating a place for customers to come at the Restore.  Amazing…God is good to give me the gift to transform hoods, hoods to good I call it.  I am blessed too to have two sons who have sacrificed so much for all the work I do, Dan and Joe, I love you sons..thank you for who you are. 

Urban farming, stay tuned, I am creating a n organization of urban farmers. Green space is so healthy and important to pepples lives we work hard to bring them back with gardens and urban farms. Have to..amazing..so with that in mind I am creating TUF, stay tend for more…a conference is coming up.

Crosswalks, farms and grens healthier neighborhoods and homes. life is good in the hood…plus the Holy Spirit, the Ruah..in Hebre to help guide our every step.  May God bless you all today, NMU.. jjk

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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The hot weather..

People like it, some hate it..our familes in Hurricane Sandy are scared of it..i get a text Hurricane Arthur, maybe my house will be blown down totally.. I can do better this way.  Her insurance company has not paid out..

Not even close…people live in fear…we need to change our world now…greener cleaner, healthier..

We are blessed in what we do to advocate..pray for her and her family..we need to advocate.

We have two stories on our Gateways initiative and also our traffic calming program.

We have only just begun..stay tuned………..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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