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We are off and running,  to a great school year…we continue, we work, we move ahead.

With that in mind, we build, rebuild, we help tring to help families live and have a home…yet we are in the toughest

County in the world for people to live.  The reason is that we have the highest taxes, we have people living in substandard housing

Right in our block, in newrochelle,  we have no design to help meet the working peoples need to have a home.

In the capital of the world, we are not number one In creativity. We helped a family get their assistance so that they could live after having illegally being placed in an apartment that they could not live in, we gave them furniture from our Restore for free, like the 181 families we have helped receive support from our organization. So many have no place to move to , to live…..

We continue….we need your help and support, we are building in ten towns and cities right now, building all over, helping rehab seniors homes,

Helpng people to be able to exist so people can have a simple decent home, please donate to help us change the face of families lives from sadness to hope, join us!

Donate today, God bless you                                                    

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A story about storms coming, tampa , florida..

Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, we continue..

Our work vital..Stacey calls, Jim I got reproved on appeal, I can build my house again…years later, her kids will be in college when her home gets rebuilt.

Regulations, specific contractors..new mayors old mayors,  never before happenings, we celebrate her call this morning this Labor Day weekend.

With Stacey, like Janet, llike Eileen, like Tom, like Capt Dalton, like theMcCarthys and the Kellehers, like Erica in NOLA and so many we have continued to help thousands..across the board, from Katrina, El Salvadors earthquake, Haiti, Sandy, Mamoronecks Storm, Hurricane Irene, we are disaster experts…we continue to move ahead…we are ready, we are ready to be blessed to help so many with the thousands of volunteers and lots of love and support.. we are worthy of your support.

 

Our lessons for disster in our country, have yet to be fully learned, we are in a changing world, changing country, changing times for the way the world exists, and how we live within it..without having people ready to respond, we loselives, homes, neighborhoods…

We continue on with our evolution.

 

Along with that today, we prepare for a thousand volunteers for our #911 buildathon! We prepare for our work to continue on Veterans homes, to move 15 veterans into a home we will expand.  Yesterday a veteran mom and 12 year old comes in, I am living in my car she says..

I need to get into living. We want her to have a home!

We have so many who want to dream of a habitat home…Your labor donation helps us move ahead..your congregation company family foundation..

We need it……….God bless you donate today http://www.habitatwc.org

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Early sat morning, across the world, volunteers are being deployed, and here too!

We are painting a shelter in White Plains, working on Vets homes in Yonkers, helping to rehab a home in Pelham, have Sidewalk Sales at  theRestore

And much much more! What a gift life is..for sure.

I am blessed we deploy thousands of troops all the time like @jpmorganChase,

StBarnabasYoungadult group, @mastercard @ScarsdaleHighschool, Riverside High and many many more! Churches syngagoues, volunteers, families,

Confirmation and mitzvah kids,are all part of our my Holy  Spirit filled armies who help me to go transform with love, with green, with homes, with hope, with sweat and muchmore!   What a blessing and yes 9 million dollars of volunteer labor to theHurricane Sandy area, we continue!

 

May you be blessed in all you do today…where are you can you @volunteer #volunteer Volunteer! Come and join us the excitement is building!

Or donate today  http://www.habitatwc.org... Godbless you !

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It seems there is always plenty going on, for sure.. people suffering, people huring, trains crashing in Hoboken, terrorists attack in NY,

Hurricanes, tornadoes and more…how do we live, how do we  succeed, and then people come across our door, the housing is horrible, people cant live here, the taxes, highest in the nation, are burdensome….we need change.

It is only through prayer, Gods grace and action we continue! We have to…4000 a month for a shelter is three of our mortgages interest free.

Families suffer, they hurt, they live in fear of being moved around, moved out, rented out with higher income.. and more

Our mission now more than ever is vital..

We also embark on continuing to help our Veterans…Ivan was securing Laguardia last week, one of our homeowners, who served in Afghanistan, called out after the Chalsea bomber did his thing.

Aura calls us today, my daughter and I are homeless or near homeless…I am a veteran, they wont give me HUD vash….

We have to show more love, compassion, help and mission…please contribute to our vital cause..like us on Habitat for Veterans, sponsor our Veterans buildathon week,

Help us help non veterans as well.. many come to us everyday, with Gods grace and your help hands heart and support, we can change this obscene situation.

With gratitude

Jim Killoran

Donate habitatwc.org

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Building in #chappaqua today, can you believe, 1/4mile away from a former president and secretary of state…1 to 2 miles from where another wannabe president lives/////on the same street, an au pair asks,can I help..and the workers in                                   

In the deli where we eat,there was a shooting…cant afford to live there….this sounds like a television intrigue series…

Whats intriguing is that more people have left new york than ever before…in the daily news today it talks about over 50,000 homeless families, the most ever in NY.

Developers make 600,000 to7000,000 per unit, 1,000,000 per unit,while we built them for a quarter of that,for ownership….we give no political contributions.. as a matter of face, when we move into a neighborhood, we help the whole neighborhood, we have already helped two neighbors there, and have more to go..

We also move into totally run down neighborhoods and make them #NMU….not as sexy maybe as specialized press conferences with high powered agencies…

But we move ahead, from Sandy to #chappaqua, from the lower east side where I was board member of nyc habitat, and worked with the homeless to the tip of Westchster, from Santo Domingo and Haiti, to Somers and the Hill, battle Hill where we build for Veterans…

Its time we take back all the Hills..for the people, so people can live, so that thru #volunteerism, everyone can live in a simple decent home.

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Sept 14^th, our work continues, more than 400 for our #911 buildathon..

Our world that we are in, we need to make it better everyday, from water to energy, to sustainable food, to

Helping people have a home..its time!

We are in a critical time in our world…presidential candidates who are working .what have they done for affordable home ownership in New York.

The AmericanDream while they have been here…a fair question.

With that in mind we continue…we have to work together to make sure the quality of our communities is making it happen. May God bless all our efforts today.

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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