Dred Scott and His Love Street.

DENVER (CBS4) – A homeless Denver man who plays regularly on the 16th Street Mall has made it onto iTunes.

David Adebonojo, who uses the performance name Dred Scott, moved to Denver sixteen years ago for the music scene. He found work and had an apartment. But then things went wrong. The apartment was infested by bed bugs.

“I couldn’t work because I wasn’t sleeping. Then I got behind in rent,” he told CBS4 on Friday from his performance spot on the mall.

Now he does what he loves full time, but income is inconsistent.

“I’ve come out here, set up, played, broke a string, made a dollar, and left. I’ve come out here, played, and made $300,” he said.
Three weeks ago local musician Tyler Ward stumbled onto Adebonojo’s talent.

“I had dinner on 16th street mall and right after I came outside I was walking outside and on the corner, I heard this amazing sound and was like, ‘Who is that?’” Ward told CBS4.
Joining forces with a Christian outreach group His Love Street, Ward shot a video for YouTube of Adebonojo performing. This week they got an EP of Dred Scott’s music on iTunes. It has already generated almost $2,000.
It wasn’t enough right away to take him off the streets, but Adebonojo is hopeful the help he’s getting to get his music heard will change his life for the better.
“That’s what these guys have done for me … you know, take my music and make it available to larger groups of people,” said Adebonojo, who says the Internet was the “next logical step” for him but he didn’t know enough about the web to figure out how to make it happen.

Watch Dred Scott perform Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” in its entirety in the video below:
Ward, who runs an online independent label, would love to see Adebonojo get popular enough to be able to get off the streets and into clubs, and perhaps tour.
Adebonojo says his music is something akin to “anti-pop.”
“Pop is like the majority of everything so there has to be a counterweight on it. There has to be serious music. And I provide serious music.”

LINK: Dred Scott – Live From 16th Street Mall (on iTunes)

LINK: His Love Street http://hislovestreet.com/

LINK: Tyler Ward Music

Dred Scott, Tyler Ward, Trey Noran and His Love Street.

Trey Louis Noran via Dred Scott

Tyler and I would like to thank you for your support of Dred, and soon we pray that he shall be on his way. Tyler Ward, and I came together with His Love Street, to help Dred and others who sleep on the streets and hope for a chance to show the world their talents; and get a home of their own. http://hislovestreet.com/

Help us make a change in a life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goU_1m2pclk
http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2011/07/dred-scott-homeless-busker-freaking-good.php

Let's stop homelessness.

Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count takes place every two years.

Los Angeles has the highest street homeless population in the nation. Every day we see men, women and children without a place to call home. We don’t have to accept homelessness as an unsolvable problem. With your help we can end homelessness.

In the fight to end homelessness, we work to connect those in need to emergency shelters, transitional housing, overnight shelters and prevention programs, with the end goal of placing them in permanent housing.

In 2011, we counted and estimated 69,340 homeless persons in Los Angeles County. Tabulating numbers is not the end goal – knowing who and where our homeless populations are allows us to target our resources more effectively to get people housed. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is about building stronger communities where everyone is safe, secure and housed.

How homelessness is defined by HUD (The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development):

A homeless person is: An individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and An individual or family who has a primary nighttime residence that is:

A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill);

An institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or
A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.
This term does not include any individual imprisoned or otherwise detained under an Act of Congress or a State law.

Dred Scott July 4th 2011.

A Homeless brother with talent in the streets of downtown Denver. Many are searching for a chance and a way to get back on their feet. http://hislovestreet.com/   today I shall search for this man in hopes we can work together to raise money for the many homeless people and children in Denver, Colorado. His Link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKiiNq72040

Homeless Climbing In New York and in the USA.

State of the Homeless 2011


April 11, 2011

By Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, and Giselle Routhier, Policy Analyst

In the midst of high unemployment, the steady loss of affordable housing, and years of failed policies under the Bloomberg administration, an all-time high number of New Yorkers turned to homeless shelters last year and the New York City homeless shelter population is now larger than at any time since the City began keeping records.

An all-time record 119,553 homeless people - including 44,888 children - slept in municipal shelters in FY 2010, an 8 percent increase from the previous year and a 37 percent increase from FY 2002 when Mayor Bloomberg took office.

This includes a record 28,977 families, a 15 percent increase from the previous year and a remarkable 81 percent more than when Mayor Bloomberg took office.

And by the end of February of this year, the nightly census of homeless adults and children in the municipal shelter system - 39,542 people - reached the highest point ever recorded.

In the midst of this historic homelessness crisis, the Bloomberg administration's only response has been to defend its failed policies. Unlike previous New York City mayors from Ed Koch through Rudy Giuliani, Mayor Bloomberg refuses to use proven and cost-effective Federal housing programs to move homeless families from shelters to stable homes. Instead, for more than six years the Bloomberg administration has replaced proven Federal programs with a series of untested, time-limited subsidies like the recently-terminated Advantage program.



However, City data show that these flawed time-limited subsidies have forced thousands of formerly-homeless children and families back into the shelter system and homelessness, at tremendous expense to taxpayers.
Since the Bloomberg administration cut off homeless families from proven Federal housing programs and replaced them with time-limited subsidies like the Advantage program, more than twice as many formerly-homeless families enter the shelter system each year.

In the seven years before Mayor Bloomberg's misguided policy change, an average of 2,003 formerly-homeless "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, but in the five years after the change, an average of 5,020 "repeat families" entered the shelter system each year, a remarkable 151 percent increase. And in FY 2010, an all-time record 6,294 "repeat families" entered the shelter system.

Before the Mayor's time-limited subsidies were implemented, only one in four families (25 percent) entering the shelter system was formerly-homeless, while now nearly half (47 percent) of all families entering the shelter system was once homeless

Homeless Project.

Need favor from God in your life? Proverbs 28:27 He who gives to the poor will lack nothing. I have worked very, hard for the last three years and we are less than two thousand dollars away from reaching our goal for a project that shall glorify God almighty; also help many who no longer can see hope. We are a 501c-3 Non-profit. If my face book friends would all give any amount we can bring this vision alive. Donate at http://hislovestreet.com/  (no gift is too small).

Compassion, Is Not Compassion; Unless You Get Involved And Do God's Will.

"Sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy" Today with the world growing smaller and getting crowded it is almost impossible for anyone to learn true compassion unless it is taught to them while young, or it was born into them...into their spirit.

God demands His people to have compassion on others. Jesus' second comandment was "You shall love your nieghbor as thyself".
The word "nieghbor" doesn't just mean the guy who lives next door, it means EVERYONE!

Not just the people that you want to be kind to....not just the ones you like already and know already...but EVERYONE.
Some of you reading this may say "I can't do that it's not who I am"
This is why God gets angry...we live in our own self-made worlds leaving God outside knocking on our door but we only hear His knock when we are going through something ourselves and need Him.
We get hurt and want to shut others off from our world...we can't see past our hurt
God loves us so much but we turn our heads from Him when it's not convenient...because when we turn our heads away from a fellow human being, we are turning away from God.

In the Bible it says God is a jealous God. He wants all our love...and he wants you to love everyone he created.
Life is not about the worldly things you can get or achieve or being thought of as a great person. Life is about loving God and others...period.
A person who laughs at God and His followers is only a person who is lacking knowledge and only listens to themselves or others who think the same way because it makes them feel safe in the world they believe is true. " Make A Difference In A Life " His Love Street; http://hislovestreet.com/

Compassion, Is Not Compassion; Unless You Get Involved And Do God's Will.