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We are developers of neighborhoods again.l.. a great honor…we have worked in hoods, where there were murders and now there are none..

We have worked on changing the feel of an ugly neighborhood to that of what we call NMU No More Ugly! We help work closely with police departments and local businesses, stakeholders and city officials at times, faith communities, to engage a process of transformation..we look to rehab homes, drop beautification planters we make with youth and donate flowers, and we look to change traffic patterns if they are unacceptable for the safety of the community.

I write this after getting a call from police at 4am..Mr Killoran..your truck was hit at the store..i go right down, we look at the camera, and at 2am and seven seconds, a white Mercedes was racing with  another car on Main St…Main St..not a highway. Thousands of people live here, thousands of people work here, small businesses, low income families of ethnicities and backgrounds…successful businesses, where two had cars go right through their front windows…the planters we put in front, now have saved businesses from cars going again into our windows and theirs again….

So now as I write this, at 622am, we sit and wait to get another report out to the insurance…our elbows have been hit, mirrors broken, seniors injured,

After we have generated 200,000 plus dollars of sales tax on main street, brought people from movie sets, veterans, soldiers, customers from all over the tri state area and country..had New Rochelle High school Art Pave program do a mural with kids to touch main street again.

Often, when people don’t care , and only focus on other areas of development…where high rises are scheduled..the small business community and others are forgotten and put aside, not protected, and degraded…

Cars have ruined neighborthoods, fractured legs, create unhealthy air quality, and helped to rip through usually low income residents and small business neighborhoods….with no green space…we fight for safety, we fight for traffic safety and less cars, we fight for the low income residents, no matter what language they speak…we continue….in NYC they call it #zerotolerance crashes not accidents..and more..

With that in mind…historic Main st in NewRochelle continues to be a highway, with no city workers there daily, speeding cars at all times of day and nite,

Crashes, injuries..its tme to change..stay tuned.

 

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

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The headlines is Public housing rents to go up..we continue down this path of folly and perpetuating poverty with a broken model of renting, not ownership in our housing authorities..its time we change this..

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon January 10^th thru January 16^th! Sponsorships are available. Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

"Like Us" on Habitat for Humanity of Westchester Facebook!

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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The key to all we do is to have living conditions that people can live decently here and across the world. I am honored that we have helped sponsor homes all over the world…@200 homes…however I am dismayed that in NY the ability to live and home has become harder and harder in all we do..

Land costs rise,

Real estate rises

Fires burn,, people live in substandard housing in one of the wealthiest counties in the world. However we have the 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 largest cities in the state…

Yet people think because people say Westchester that people don’t need homes..it is the exact opposite.

Right now still trying to help fire victims as well..the mission continues, stronger than ever.

God bless you, please help us with your support. jjk

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Homes for the Holidays Campaign! Your donation helps move our families in for the Holidays! Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

"Like Us" on Habitat for Humanity of Westchester Facebook!

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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Its Friday morning, im tired, this weekend we have 7 events, but the added bonus of assisting more than 86 fire victims locally within walking distance of our headquarters has caused a challenge to us like none other.

The crisis of affordable housing grows in NewRochelle…86 people displaced in last 5 days, in three separate fires.. people stuffed in some of the buildings like sardines, because they cant afford high rents, while the gentrification of families and small businesses comes…..

It makes no sense.. I fear a loss of life, of ressidents, police or firefighters, of people who are in need of help and wont be able to get out, of substandard housing and electrical wires put everywhere that make no sense and are danger daily to those living there..

 

Along with that in the journal news yesterday there was an article in journal news on Mt Kisco being sued on lack of code enforcement on immigrant housing.

This can have ramifications for each municipality, where there is a lack of building inspectors, lack of code enforcement therefore, and lack of quality affordable housing opportunities…The crisis continues.

A dire warning…loss of life Is around the corner, lawsuits will abound, and all for the lack of not making affordablility a reality.

Our mission continues stronger than ever, how dow e help citizens and those that work here, live decently, not die and communities that are safe.  Its winter and its only begun….stay tuned..these are scary times,

We have our disaster teams that go out, our volunteers that deploy our headquarters that gets transformed into a disaster center, and more.

If  you want to help our efforts please donate online to habitatwc.org

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Homes for the Holidays Campaign! Your donation helps move our families in for the Holidays! Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

"Like Us" on Habitat for Humanity of Westchester Facebook!

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

Spring into action; the next 25 years!

 

 

 

 

 

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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 !

FW: 9/29/16 blog

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

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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.