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The week that was that is..

Our builders camp started again this week,more than 100 strong working with us, from all over

Helping to learn how to hammer, make bird houses, tool boxes, tables, bookcases..in our #MakersSpace, and in our

Space where we will redesign Westchester, yes that’s right, in our new Headquarters, God has put us here, now we need you to make a special extra blessing

Gift to us..ten dollars, 100 , 1000 or more..recognition to help us buy and purchase this important Gateways #SoNo NewRo building that will help us

Change the face of Main St, in NewRochelle. This holy place helps us help moms and kids daily,

Like those that are evicted, or potentially evicted, those three moms who came to me this week..or the two seniors homes the Mayor of Pelham asked us to help

Hit and help us to rehab seniors homes, who could not maintain their home…

All of this we move like a SWAT team for good, for LOVE , from the A team to the HOPES team, we make it happen.

With that in mind,  we continue…come visit, as we will be giving tours constantly, both inside and out.

And tomorrow is National Thrift Store day, it gets even better at our #restore.

May God bless you and yours..go to our website, habitatwc.org…the Excitement is building!

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Another day, another blessing…another family from our #Gateways neighborhood, calls, can you help us, we have little insulation, we are paying too much and it is cold in the winter..my sister has sickle cell, my father retired..

Please help.

These calls about rehabbing homes, that are in desperate need of repair, are called Brush with Kindness…no question..

We work hard to help so many from Seniors to Vets to average families who are burdened by high taxes, no little about home maintainance in our world of computers…and need our help. This family was in Mt Vernon..last week two in Pelham..another call from Ossining, our Brush with Kindness Repair program is in great need.

We also are in a crisis of lack of affordable home ownership in NY.  We continue, we are blessed to help move ahead. But we can do it without your help…

With that in mind… join us in this vital mission! Habitatwc.org

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Early morning, sat..volunteers coming, at the Restore, have been to our mcquestin Gateways community garden, watering..

We love and live by volunteers……..we ask you to pray now, as we see horrific conditions of families who cant afford to live in NY, …working, but the rents are too damn high, zombie houses abound, but take years to turn over, and luxury high rises go up like large weeds within walking distance of our headquarters while people get gentrified..

It is a horrible situation that people and officials pretend they care.. we definitely needs God s grace and guidance during this time,..your prayers and donations and sweat equity..so all in the capital of the world,…can go to bed at nite in a simple decent home.

With gratitude, jjk

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We are in a crisis of affordable housing,..dense communities burn with fires from high taxes and people not able to change their electric while others have two acre zoning..lands of presidents and wanna presidents, governors and wannabe governors, all see affordable ownership as a problem in their affluent white towns..people running our towns and cities live further away for that American dream and NY is the most exited state in the country…something drastically wrong here folks….

Its time for change, that we build in every town and city…we have to ..lives and generations depend upon it…what we see in the  news today, is a clear lack of ownership,respect, understanding love, lack of opportunity and more….we continue…God bless our work, Habitat of Westchester, our volunteers and so many more…jim killoran

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Today we work in the inner city, transforming it with many people, many volunteers..50 plus in making it NMU..no more ugly.. a change so that there is relationship building, together..building community together…tomorrow another group works with me in MtVernon, we continue, to are blessed to help to see what we can do tpo help our Gateways neighborhood there improve to great beauty, so many great people. 

I have been blssed to work in the inner cities, the gateways, for a number of years…we work together to help change neighborhoods together, God celebrates diversity, no question.

As we look at what happened in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, Dallas, we pray and are more committed in the theology of the hammer, and the theology of  diversity, I  call it.. God celebrates diversity, no question…but many of our faith communities are not, and we need all to realize in Gods eyes we are equal, in our mission, all should go to bed at nite in a simple decent home!

To that end, we work harder than ever, we pray, and we move ahead..

jjk

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Early morning runs to our community gardens in #MtVernon and #NewRochelle.

The Gardens help to bring joy, NMU. No more Ugly a term I created, hope, beauty and love to people

We also have changed the Ashburton corridor as well with the gardens, green space is needed for sure..

Many volunteers help me from all over, no question..they plant, the clean, the come together in community knowing each others neighbors.

Last week I was invited to speak at the #Chappaqua community garden, helping to speak about community and home building there.

The leaders are making signs and on July 16^th they are helping to sell them at the Farmers Market.

 

Main St NewRochelle Ashburton Yonkers and Mt Vernon Avneue Mt Vernon are all our neighborhoods of Habitat, of Gods neighborhoods, of the people.

We have pushed hard to stop heavy traffic accidents, and we also help push for crosswalks, buttons, beauty, NMU…sometimes the they don’t like speaking up by us,

But they have to fix the problems…People have environmental injustice…..happening all the time….just this week three accidents on Main St….in SoNO Newrochelle

In the Gateways.. I ran out, two elderly people hit from behind in their car, and the driver was dizzy, falling into the street, walking in circles, I calmed him, had him sit back in

While calling the police and ambulance and ended up driving their car to the hospital, ….this happens often….it has to stop. A car went through our old restore, at 524 main

And then it went through two other storefronts, speeding at octavios and also the former clark realty..speeding,…they life.

Main st needs tobe Main St again……

Mt Vernon avenue, speeding happens too..our planter program…green planters, as green goes up crime goes down, changes the concrete jungles into streets and neighborhoods again..

Government responds slowly, too slow, but the people need to get involved in their neighborhoods..the lack of voting for officials is at a dismal low in NY, and in our neigbhborhoods,

We encourage voter registration too, and community participation……however elected officials come and go..but people stay and live.they are the main stay….like us..

Join us the excitement is building and growing and changing highways to neighborhoods again..

 

With that in mind we will have three cookouts in the our gardens in the abovementioned areas..join us!

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An honor to speak at ST Pauls Historic Church in MtVernon, a national historic site..

This was a ceremony about he declaration of independence, and I asked us all to be more vigilant, prayerful, faithful

And remember our freedoms..Freedom, Faith and the future..

We also need freedom from cars, computers and campaigns…they have been hurting us along with little or no affordable housing..to this end we work..

We continue..to help create green communities that will help us build and rebuild the future in ways that are great for all, from babies to elderly, from school workers to school principals..

A homeless woman called my phone this morning, jim I had to stay at the train station again..can you help get me a shower today…what a world..

We have to have a better way of helping those in need in our communities….from Veterans to retirees, from milleniels and more to others..

Its time! Join us in this vital work, life saving, community changing.. God bless America..

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How blessed we are as we work in new Rochelle, yonkers, Chappaqua, millwood, mt Vernon today.

Our volunteers are our life blood. Fema stating we gave 9  million dollrs to the rockaways helps us to realize

How important we have saved lives changed lives, saved communities…the #broken window theory to theend degree..

What broken windows do you see daily, are we dull to them, do we accept mediocrity, do we ask God for guidance to make the world better

Every day..it is truly our mission…in a world that needs hope, love, windows, fixed, hearts mended, religions with love as one,

And NMU..No More Ugly…

Join us in this vital mission s we make America better on the way to the 4^th of July and every day and everywhere..

God bless America and the world..we need extra blessings God…we pray

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Yesterday morning one of our families came in to visit..what an  honor..

Coming to help us and talk.. the daughter I hadn’t seen since she was young..

Now a teacher she is doing amazing…the next door family, whose two kids also graduated college, one from Syracuse the other Sacred Hart..

One not working in the finance world..the other now working as a nurse..

What world we live in..kids working, studying, having  a safe home to succeed..another one of the many benefits of habitats world..the nume one private builder in the country, lets make it #1 in NY< in building home ownership again…are you with me..

God bless you..jjk

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What a day, kicking off more than 250 volunteers, we continue strong..

Never stopping, we have two companies and an eagle scout group volunteering today..

As I talk to one of the finance companies, someone asks, jim, you are right about the manufacturing needing to come back..to help communities…the carpet mills used to be at the bottom of where we have contributed more than 2 million dollars of volunteer labor…build 15 new homes and fifteen community gardens, as well as helped to rehab 25 homes…

As I drive a way, two young gentlemen ask..in their 20s…we need jobs! I stop give them my card, ask them to pray for me to get capital to hire more people to help change lives and hoods together…and drive away,

Urban America, typical..everyone wants a shot, needs a job a home, a park a good hood..will you donate today…

God bless you, we change lives and hoods one day at a time…adding up to quality of life changes needed for all!

 

Jim Killoran

Habitatwc.org