Development & grant writing @ Habitat for Humanity MetroWest/Greater Worcester after VISTA year with ReStore. Serve. Learn. Grow. Postings credited or my own.
Out there for warm-up week on #WalkforHomes with @HabitatMWGW 52 miles in 21 days raising awareness and funds for local families seeking #affordablehomes in MetroWest/Greater Worcester
THREAD: Today I went to the public library for the first time in a long time. A woman came up to me and asked me to help her with the computer so she could apply for a custodial job. She had gone to the organization she wanted to work at, and was told to apply online.
Streaming live now, Habitat CEO @JReckford is participating in a panel discussion about @Harvard_JCHS’s 2019 State of the Nations’s Housing report. Click here to watch: https://t.co/JIJkbRoIhU #harvardhousingreport
Inaction is expensive. A study from @ChildrensHW found that over the next decade we’ll spend $111B in avoidable healthcare costs due to housing instability. My exchange with @RepPressley:
This Waseem Al Sati, a father who was shot 4 times along with his daughter who was shot 3 times by the New Zealand terrorist.
They are both in critical condition *STILL ALIVE*
No matter who you are or who you pray to, PLEASE for them
1 Retweet= Prayer
RETWEET THIS.
The death toll is now 51💔
Khaled Hajj Hasan, only 16 killed on the New Zealand Terrorist attack along with his Father.
A mother now lives without her son and her husband.
UPDATE: We identified and mapped all expired (or soon to expire) @HUDgov contracts for affordable housing. Together, the dots represent ~150,000 deeply poor seniors & people w/disabilities whose homes are at risk from #shutdown2018. https://t.co/v4V8r3pScS
Nearly a third of households age 65 or older (9.7 million) pay at least 30% of their income for housing, and more than half of these pay over 50%. Try our INTERACTIVE MAP and tune into our livestream @ 12:15 ET. https://t.co/9NiRt0aDfa #harvardhousingreport