We Need You.

Thanks to the many that have wished us blessings and their prayers. I know that many of you cannot afford $ 8.900.00 but that is what we are lacking to open a pantry for the homeless in downtown, this will help us get it open and ran for the first three months, If you can help in anyway, or I do know that God has bless......ed many that could make a check for the whole amount. The winter is coming in and my desire is to offer hot soup, chili and breakfast burritos to the many along with coats and gloves. To donate please visit us at hislovestreetministries.com

Pantry For The Glory of God.

Thanks to the many that have wished us blessings and their prayers. I know that many of you cannot afford $ 8.900.00 but that is what we are lacking to open a pantry for the homeless in downtown, this will help us get it open and ran for the first three months, If you can help in anyway, or I do know that God has blessed many that could make a check for the whole amount. The winter is coming in and my desire is to offer hot soup, chili and breakfast burritos to the many along with coats and gloves.

Live From Nashville On WWCR Trey Noran

Listen to Reverend Trey Noran.

Rev. Trey is working hard to raise money for the homeless, his plan is a 90 day stay where the homeless are given food, understanding, struture, work, boarding, peace of mindand employment and training and at the end a home of their own.Live Trey Noran From Nashville
Tomorrow at 12:30pm
WWCR in Nashville. Show airs at 12:45 PM central.

HOW DO WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE HOMELESS PROBLEM?

Psychologically, homelessness provides many of us with a constant unwanted reminder that our childhood homes were often a place of pain and emptiness instead of comfort and love. Many of us grew up, in truth, psychologically homeless despite the physically-comfortable buildings in which we might have resided. When we finally are ready to face and let go that old childhood pain (of being psychologically homeless), then we will be more effective in solving the homeless problem we see "out there" today.

Because women and men favor different sides of the brain, it is not desirable that equal numbers of each sex be in most job categories. Equal opportunity, however, is HIGHLY desirable.

One popular view has it that the homeless problem is caused by a lack of jobs. I don't agree. I think that it is our fears that make us so ineffective in dealing with the homeless, our fears that we might wind up homeless too if we lose our jobs. It is a major role of government to ease fears of citizens. So far, governmental bodies, private agencies and the citizenry have been squabbling ineffectively without making any changes that would remove citizens' fears of homelessness. Such inaction keeps our fears alive and the homeless problem unsolved.


The homeless problem is aided and abetted by those of us with apartments or homes. The inhumanity of not providing shelter for our citizens is obvious. Why do we put up with it? It is essential that this shelter provides three things: warmth, dryness and safety. Yet we are squabbling over down-the-road items such as whether drugs/ alcohol, joblessness, or failed families are the root cause. The root cause is not relevant for people who presently are cold, wet and in danger of being mugged. We must provide the opportunity for shelter first. Solutions are not that difficult, but they involve allowing housing in NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) locations, and small rooms that don't meet minimum size requirements of local building codes.


Our society traditionally had shacks on the edge of town. With our building codes we have eliminated most of these shacks and placed their occupants on the streets. We cannot afford to solve all their problems or to provide spacious housing. Two-way construction is one solution, providing the homeless with small rooms that could be converted back and forth between use as housing and use as storage during times of less homelessness. Many homeless people rent storage spaces today. We can afford to provide small, warm, dry, and safe housing for every person who wants it. If we did, this would enable perhaps 40% of today's homeless to solve their other problems themselves at no further cost to society. It is up to us to tell the homeless advocates, our NIMBY neighbors, the building code legislators, and the idealists who want each homeless person in a spacious apartment, "Quit bickering and solve the problem effectively, humanely. Start doing it now."


The possibility of homelessness is leading many of us to (1)unhappy compromises of integrity concerning work, (2)lying and cheating behavior and (3)a wealth of fear. All three of these contribute strongly to the climate of violence, not just out there in the streets but in our homes as we teach our children to be fearful and unethical.

Helping Others In Florida.

Project Homeless Connect, Osceola County, Sept. 17, 2010

Project Homeless Connect is the Homeless Services Network’s outreach to the homeless in Seminole, Orange, and Osceola Counties. It is a one day event offering more than 50 services that are critically needed by homeless persons in one convenient location.

Services offered include showers, meals, shelter, employment opportunities, mental health and substance abuse services, ID cards and driver’s licenses, birth certificate applications, access to Social Security for claims and replacement cards, job training programs, job interviews, legal services, medical care, and bus passes.

HSN will be holding the next Project Homeless Connect in Osceola County on Friday, September 17th, 2010. The location is at the Osceola Heritage Park Exhibition Hall:
1901 Chief Osceola Trail
Kissimmee, FL 34744

HSN is grateful for the support of the Osceola Board of County Commissioners and the Osceola County Veteran’s Council for our event this year. In 2009, Project Homeless Connect served 360 clients in Osceola County. In 2010, we expect to serve 500.

In order to make this event a success, WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! If you would like to volunteer, please fill out the Volunteer Registration Form.

Apartment rents cheaper than stays in homeless shelters.

By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY

Cities, states and the federal government pay more to provide the homeless with short-term shelter and services than what it would cost to rent permanent housing, the U.S. government reports.
A study of 9,000 families and individuals being released today by the Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that costs to house the newly homeless vary widely, depending on the type of shelter and social services provided by the six cities in the report.

Emergency shelter for families was the most costly. In Washington, D.C., the average bill for a month in an emergency shelter ranges from $2,500 to $3,700. In Houston, the average is $1,391.

Many communities probably don't know that they are spending as much "to maintain a cot in a gymnasium with 100 other cots" as it would cost to rent an efficiency apartment, says Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania professor who studies housing policies. "We are paying for a form of housing that is largely substandard, and we are paying as much, if not more, than standard conventional housing."

He says the report bolsters a move by the Obama administration to focus on helping the homeless get permanent housing. The federal stimulus act last year set aside $1.5 billion to prevent homelessness by helping people pay rent, utility bills, moving costs or security deposits.

Nationwide, 1.6 million homeless people received shelter in 2008, according to government figures.

The new study does not look at the cost-effectiveness or quality of the programs. Costs to shelter first-time homeless people varied based on the type of shelter and other services provided, how long they stayed and overhead. Shelters may offer drug and alcohol treatment, mental health care, family counseling and help obtaining government benefits.

Mark Johnston, deputy assistant secretary of HUD, says the report should prompt communities to lower costs by targeting people with only the services they need and to improve aid for those who repeatedly become homeless.

"We saw higher costs and longer lengths of stay than expected," he says. The longest average stay for individuals was 73 days in Des Moines. The longest average stay for families was 309 days in Washington.

"We do not want people to languish in emergency shelter," Johnston says.

Neil Donovan of the National Coalition for the Homeless says the report is limited because it covered 2004 through 2006. It doesn't include families who became homeless in the recession.

"A lot of things have become very different in the last couple of years," he says. "If it's used to a greater degree than a conversation starter, it will be used to a greater degree than it's worth."

HOUSING THE HOMELESS

A study by the Department of Housing and Urban Development finds that the average monthly cost to house the homeless varies widely.

Individuals:

Des Moines Jacksonville Houston
Emergency shelter $581 $799 $968

Transitional housing $1,386 $870 $1,654

Market-rate, one-bedroom apt. $549 $643 $612

Families:

Houston Kalamazoo, Mich. Greenville, S.C. Washington
Emergency shelter $1,391 $1,614 $2,269 $3,530

Transitional housing $3,340 $813 $1,209 $2,170

Market-rate rent, two-bedroom apt. $743 $612 $599 $1,225

Fundraiser In Denver

Support us Wednesday September 22th 2010 at All Five location of Las Delicias Restaurants in Denver to help raise money to feed the homeless. Patronize these five locations on September 22th 2010 and Las Delicious shall donate fifteen percent of all there sales that day from all five restaurants to His Love Street Hote...l.

Join us, at All Five Locations at Las Delicias Denver next Wednesday September 22th 2010 at 439 E 19th Ave Denver, CO 80203. 19553 Main St. Parker, CO 80134 4301 E. Kentucky Ave. Glendale, CO 80246 92 E. Arapahoe Rd. (Southeast corner of S. Broadway and E. Arapahoe Rd.)Littleton, CO 80122 7610 Conifer Rd. Denver, CO 80221See More

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Project Homeless

Project Homeless Connect, Osceola County, Sept. 17, 2010

Project Homeless Connect is the Homeless Services Network’s outreach to the homeless in Seminole, Orange, and Osceola Counties. It is a one day event offering more than 50 services that are critically needed by homeless persons in one convenient location.

Services offered include showers, meals, shelter, employment opportunities, mental health and substance abuse services, ID cards and driver’s licenses, birth certificate applications, access to Social Security for claims and replacement cards, job training programs, job interviews, legal services, medical care, and bus passes.

HSN will be holding the next Project Homeless Connect in Osceola County on Friday, September 17th, 2010. The location is at the Osceola Heritage Park Exhibition Hall:
1901 Chief Osceola Trail
Kissimmee, FL 34744

HSN is grateful for the support of the Osceola Board of County Commissioners and the Osceola County Veteran’s Council for our event this year. In 2009, Project Homeless Connect served 360 clients in Osceola County. In 2010, we expect to serve 500.

Terry Jones, the Media is to blame.

America and the world, Terry Jones needs prayer for he does represent neither Christians nor God in any way possible I am ashamed that he claims to be a pastor and comes in the name of God. Jesus comes in love and caring for all. This really gets me that he continues to attack groups and those he does not agree with, but then on the other hand I totally blame the media for giving this confused man the PR that he desperately carves. We are a bright country and we know that a church that carries guns and has statements of hate is not of God, so we must not give this confused man any more PR and he shall stop.

Demographic Characteristics of Homeless

On most basic demographic characteristics, homeless clients differ considerably from the population of the United States. In addition, the parents in homeless families using services, who comprise 15 percent of the homeless clients to NSHAPC survey, also differ from single homeless clients on many of these same factors. Table 2.1 presents the relevant information. The Ns shown at the top of this and all other tables are unweighted. Percentages are based on weighted data.

Demographic characteristics of all U.S. adults appear in the first column of table 2.1 as a point of comparison to the homeless clients who participated in the NSHAPC survey. The second column describes these homeless clients. The third and fourth columns break out NSHAPC homeless clients into those who are with their own children (homeless families), and those who are not (single homeless clients).



Sex

As in other studies, men dominate among homeless clients, comprising 68 percent of this group compared to 48 percent of all U.S. clients in 1996 (figure 2.1).5 However, these statistics mask considerable differences in the sex of homeless clients in homeless families and single homeless clients. Among homeless clients in families, 84 percent are women and 16 percent are men (figure 2.2). Among single homeless clients, the sex ratio is reversed; only 23 percent are women and 77 percent are men (table 2.1).



Race/Ethnicity

Homeless clients are about equally divided between non-Hispanic whites and blacks (41 and 40 percent, respectively), with 11 percent Hispanics, 8 percent Native Americans, and 1 percent "other" (figure 2.3). Compared with all U.S. adults in 1996, homeless clients are disproportionately black non-Hispanics (11 versus 40 percent) and Native American (1 versus 8 percent).6 The racial/ ethnic makeup of homeless clients does not differ by family status.



Age

The overall statistics on the ages of homeless clients mask very great differences between homeless clients in families and single homeless clients. Clients in families are much younger, as shown in their higher probability of being ages 24 and younger (26 versus 10 percent) and lower probability of being ages 55 and older (less than 0.5 percent versus 9 percent) (figure 2.4). This age distribution is quite different from that of all U.S. adults, in which only 14 percent are under 25 years of age and 28 percent are ages 55 and older.7

Figure 2.4



Marital Status

Forty-eight percent of homeless clients have never married. Among the 52 percent who have been married at one time or another, most have seen those marriages dissolve through divorce (24 percent) or separation (15 percent) without subsequently entering into another marriage. These patterns are repeated among single homeless clients, and modified somewhat among homeless clients in families (figure 2.5). The latter group is more likely to report being married (23 versus 7 percent) and less likely to report being divorced (13 versus 26 percent). In addition, they are less likely never to have married (41 versus 50 percent), but the proportion who have never married is still high compared to all U.S. adults at 23 percent.8

Figure 2.5

Education

Thirty-eight percent of homeless clients have dropped out of high school, while for 34 percent, a high school diploma is their highest level of completed education. Fewer, but still more than one-quarter, have some education beyond high school. These figures differ considerably between clients in families and single homeless clients (figure 2.6). Clients in families are more likely to have ended their education before completing high school (53 versus 37 percent), and less likely to have exactly a high school diploma or G.E.D. (21 versus 36 percent). However, the two groups are equally likely to have received some education beyond high school. Homeless clients are less educated than the adult U.S. population: only 25 percent of American adults (those ages 25 and older) have less than a high school education, 34 percent have a high school diploma, and 45 percent have some education beyond high school.9



Veteran Status

Twenty-three percent of homeless clients are veterans. Examined separately by sex, 1 percent of homeless women are veterans compared to 33 percent of homeless men. For men, this proportion is not different from the 31 percent of the general client male population whom the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates were veterans in 1996, but somewhat lower than the 40 percent of veterans among homeless men found in a systematic synthesis of data from other studies of homeless populations (Rosenheck et al. 1996).

His Love Street Ministries

Please give this Labor Day to "His Love Street Ministries" the need is growing larger and help us give hope to the many that believe there is no hope. We are five thousand short this month and thirty thousand away from a full Pantry to feed.
PLEASE SEARCH YOUR HEART. Hislovestreetministries.com

Trey Louis Noran

First thank you for our special ten year friendship and allowing I to write on your blog. Your, hard work Trey will pay off very soon because you are beyond amazing, what a great love for the homeless, others and life. You a special man. Love you buddy.....Luke