12 New Ocean Hill-Brownsville Homes On St. John’s Place Ring in 2011
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ore than 85,000 individuals – most of whom live clo to the economic edge – are jammed into Eastern Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood. According to the area’s Community Board 16, “permanent and affordable housing continues to
be a high priority for our community.”
Our St. John’s Residences, Habitat-NYC’s newest development in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn, will help provide a solution
The new-construction condos will become home to a dozen low-income families, who will live in affordable, two- and three-bedroom condos units. In keeping with our commitment to green building, the homes will meet LEED and ENERGY STAR standards and ensure healthy
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Connie Sargent Retires Her Hard Hat Page 5
Habitat-NYC Seeks New Family Partners Page 6
Building More than Ever!‘100 Homes in Central Brooklyn’Launches Our Most Innovative New Program Page 3
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environments and cost-saving fuel efficiency.
St. John’s Residences are Habitat-NYC’s first new-construction initiative developed with partial funding from the federal Neighborhood S tabilization P rogram 2 (NSP2). Established under the Rec
overy Act of 2009, the program’s goal is to help revive neighborhoods like Ocean Hill-Brownsville that have been hit hard by foreclosure and abandonment (e related 100
Seven South Bronx Families Ring Out 2010 with Home Blessings at Our Colin Powell Apartments
Valeria, left, and Julissa, right, bless their new homes in December. Meet the Delgado-DeJesus family on Page 5
volunteers donating their precious spare time to
also find a dynamic mix of family partner homebuyers working right alongside the volunteers. The families come from diver
committing hundreds of hours of sweat equity to build their homes, they forge lasting bonds with volunteers, with the Habitat-NYC staff and
Building Blocks — and Community — in Brooklyn
2011: A Hundred Habitat-NYC Homes Coming to Central Brooklyn
affordable condos and salute the lfless volunteers with Habitat-NYC for their ‘sweat equity’ – building energy-efficient, ‘green’ homes to ensure a future that’s not only affordable, but sustainable.”
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Construction began in January, and Habitat-NYC plans to have volunteers and family partners working on the St. John’s Residences in the fall. The homes are expected to be finished by early 2012.
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abitat-NYC is welcoming the new year with the launch of one of the most innovative and far-reaching projects in our 25-year history: 100 Homes in Central Brooklyn.
The affordable, green co-ops and condos will include homes in currently vacant buildings scattered throughout the historic neighborhoods. Habitat-NYC is using federal NSP2 funds (e St. John’s article, page 1) to purcha and renovate the buildings, and volunteers and future homeowners will refurbish them.The initiative is unique:
• NSP2 funding allows Habitat-NYC to purcha long-vacant housing – buildings that undermine the safety and vitality of their blocks;
• Habitat-NYC will be able to acquire and restore h omes q uickly a nd i n l arger q uantities than we typically produce housing. By 2013, Habitat-NYC will build or renovate 100 NSP2 homes in Central Brooklyn;
• All of the affordable homes will be constructed to high green building standards.
As important, the 100 homes include a strong commitment to strengthening Bedford-Stuyvesant and surrounding low-income Central Brooklyn neighborhoods – communities that have been ravaged by the recession, foreclosure and abandonment.Habitat-NYC has a high stake in helping to stabilize Bedford-Stuyvesant and nearby communities. With the help of thousands of volunteers from business, faith groups and individuals across NYC, we have built 50 homes in Bed-Stuy and 41 in Ocean Hill-
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In addition to rebuilding the homes, Habitat-NYC is partnering with established community groups to expand our volunteer-led Brush with Kindness initiatives in Bed-Stuy to help repair esntial community spaces and increa our Loan Rangers financial literacy programs to neighborhood resid
ents.
Habitat-NYC has targeted a number of vacant buildings to be restored to affordable housing through the 100 Homes in Central Brooklyn initiative. The first include:
• 475 Monroe Street , an eight-unit, four-story building between Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Lewis Avenue;
• 203 Marion Street , a three-story walk-up that will be renovated into six homes;
• 849 Haly Street , a six-unit, three-story walk-up building.
Homes in Central Brooklyn article above). Habitat-NYC will match the NSP2 funds with private dollars, city funds and a construction loan from Amalgamated Bank. The Office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is among the project’s funders.
The four-story buildings will ri on three long-vacant lots – neighborhood eyesores that the city’s Department of Housing St. John’s Residences Begin Construction
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Prervation and Development (HPD) sold to Habitat-NYC for $12,000.
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Markowitz said: “With the St. John’s Residences – and previously the Atlantic Avenue Residence, the largest Habitat development in New Y ork City – Habitat-NYC is helping derving Brooklyn families achieve the ‘American Dream’ of home ownership in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. I am proud to support the construction of the 203 Marion Street 475 Monroe Street
849 Haly Street
D espite freezing temperatures and record
snowfall, the winter has been a ason
of warmth for many students at P.S. 54 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Habitat-NYC’s Y outh and Community Relations AmeriCorps member, Jazmine Raveneau, led our Campus Chapters in a toy, jacket and book drive for low-income students at the school. Habitat-NYC’s Campus Chapters collected more than 100 toys, books and winter coats for the elementary school.
Jazmine has done much to promote and
expand Habitat-NYC’s student prence.
Four new schools have joined the Habitat-
NYC Campus Chapters alliance since the
beginning of the school year. In 15 high
schools and colleges across New York City,
hundreds of students are fundraising,
building and educating their communities
about Habitat-NYC’s mission and the city’s
dire need for affordable homes.
Jazmine even created a new Facebook page
to give members of our Campus Chapters
a common space to share their experiences,
thoughts and ideas. “Like” us at Habitat-NYC
Campus Chapters.
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establishing a Campus Chapters program,
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Campus Chapters Bring Holiday Cheer to B’klyn Kids
Connie Sargent Retires Her Hard Hat
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fter the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, Connie Sargent felt she needed to reasss her life. “I was looking for something more meaningful,” she says. Habitat-NYC’s former office was located only blocks from her home. “I just walked in and said, ‘Is there anything I can do?’”
Indeed there was, and we put Connie to work, using her extensive PR skills to help publish our first annual report. And she continued working with us, assisting the executive director, overeing PR and communications efforts, organizing fundrairs and events, and in 2005, moving on to the Board of Directors.
We have managed to keep Connie busy for a decade. In that time, she has gotten to work cloly with Habitat-NYC’s family partners while also helping to build Habitat homes and communities across New Y ork
City and around the world.
1920x1080超高清壁纸“I was really, really inspired when I went to India [with a Jimmy Carter Work Project]. Y ou become so clo to the family and you’re working literally in their hou
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A Room of Her Own
Xiomara Delgado-DeJesus Looks Forward to Privacy, Security
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or pretty much her whole life — all 10 years of it – Valeria DeJesus has shared the same tiny bedroom with her sister, Julissa, 13. Each morning, the girls open their eyes and are greeted by the wide, branching network of cracks that spread across their ceiling and the ever-expanding bloom of leaks that pouch out and peel the old, bland paint.
In the living room next to them, mom Xiomara Delgado-DeJesus had carved out a small, make-shift space to create her own “bedroom.” Becau her landlord is slow to fix problems, Xiomara does most of her own repairs.
No wonder Valeria and Julissa danced across the floor, smiles bright and glowing, the first time they visited their new Habitat-NYC home in our General Colin L. Powell Apartments. They will still share a
bedroom — but this one is sunny, cheerful and pristine. The girls have already agreed to decorate their new room in all purple, their favorite color.
Xiomara will have her own bedroom — a real bedroom — that will finally afford her some privacy!
“Without Habitat, I could never afford to own a home,” says Xiomara, a single mother who works for a real estate management company and is well aware of challenges of buying a home on a modest salary.
The Delgado-DeJesus family was among the ven families who dedicated their new Habitat-NYC homes in December. With keys in hand, the families are awaiting the
final paperwork so they can call up the moving company.
巾帼女英雄That day can’t come fast enough for Xiomara, who says that her family is thrilled to soon have more space and a safe and well-constructed affordable home. Her girls are “very excited and can’t wait to move in” to their new, healthy and very purple room.
every day.” She was one of 3,000 volunteers helping to build 100 new homes. “It was AWESOME,” says Connie. “I mean that in the real meaning of the world. AWESOME.”Her dedication, leadership a
nd warmth have been her signature over the cour of the last decade. From hanging drywall to chairing the first million-dollar gala, she has done everything from painting walls to profiling family partners to finding Habitat-NYC a new home on the World Wide Web and in lower Manhattan.
But though Connie is retiring from Habitat-NYC, she is not slowing down. She just completed a degree in teaching English as a cond language. “I’m teaching refugees at an international rescue organization,” she says. “What was most amazing was the tangible part of Habitat where you actually know the families. And that’s what I’m looking for in this next job.”
Xiomara Delgado-DeJesus and her daughters, Valeria and Julissa in their new home
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