Walter Simpkins recognized during National Homeownership Month | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – Habitat for Humanity of Schenectady County used money from the city’s HOMES initiative to complete a build at 323 Schenectady St. in 2016.
But a woman’s murder and other neighborhood concerns on that street’s 500 block made it a difficult sell, according to the agency’s executive director, Madelyn Thorne.
The lack of interest made Thorne try something outside the box.
Thorne said she recruited a particular individual, Community Fathers Executive Director Walter Simpkins, to apply.
Simpkins’ eventual purchase of the house was celebrated to fanfare at City Hall Tuesday as part of National Homeownership Month.
Land Bank wants $100K CDBG loan through Schenectady to rehab Prospect Street home | The Daily Gazette
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Inset: The home at 110 Prospect St. that the land bank wants to renovate.
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The City Council is expected to help provide the Capital Region Land Bank with the financial wherewithal to reimagine a blighted two-family residence that has been vacant for at least four years.
Toward the city’s ongoing effort to eradicate blight in the Eastern Avenue neighborhood, where 25 properties have been demolished, the council will vote on whether to authorize a $100,000 federal Community Development Block Grant loan for the Capital Region Land Bank to rehab 110 Prospect St.
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Candidates of color well represented in Tuesday’s primary results | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY The majority of Tuesday’s city voters gave the nod to four people of color in the primary races for City Council last week, and those candidates are poised to take office barring any change in results from absentee voting which begins Monday. One white incumbent councilperson did not make the cut.
Incumbents Marion Porterfield and John Mootooveren, along with candidate Damonni Farley, campaigned together and held off Karen Zalewski-Wildzunas in the race for full, four-year terms on the council.
Porterfield and Farley are Black; Mootooveren is Guyanese. Zalewski-Wildzunas is white.
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