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"Homeless to Happiness" - A Television Reality Series By: Joseph F. LaBella, Leonard Mondfredo and Sean Claffey Homeless TV Three New Yorkers Want to Use Reality TV to Help the Less Fortunate Start Over
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Homeless to Happiness,
a planned television reality series based on the concept of
recruiting homeless people off the streets of New York city who
express a genuine desire to return to society. We will provide
these people with makeovers, housing, counseling, life coaching,
checking accounts, jobs, and financial planning. In essence,
we want to provide the subject with another chance, and follow them
through the transition of going from Homeless to Happiness (with
additional seasons/series planned for other major cities with large
homeless populations, including Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago,
Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia and/or Washington, DC, etc.) The series will follow three homeless individuals, including men and women, through clean-up including makeovers), counseling (including employment and life coaching), housing, support and other rehabilitation, as they make the transition back into society. Excerpt from NEW YORK RESIDENT (www.resident.com) Week of October 3, 2005 It's the rare person who praises a reality TV show these days, but it's even more remarkable when the plaudits come from someone who a few months ago didn't even have a television - or a roof over his head. Eight months ago, 39-year-old Billy Scheer was living in a box near the corner of Prince and Crosby streets, panhandling and addicted to a powerful version of crack cocaine balled bazooka. Then he met three New Yorkers trying to end the homelessness problem one person at a time, through television. "Homeless to Happiness" is the brainchild of a recently retired New York City policeman, Joseph (The Neck) Labella, who had worked undercover in narcotics for 10 years. He'd seen homelessness firsthand and decided when he left the force, that he wanted to help the kinds of people he had met on the streets. So he pitched an idea for a reality show to childhood friend Leaonard Monfredo, who designs sets for programs like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and music videos. Leaonard liked the idea and brought in his business partner, Sean Claffey, who has produced animated series and filmed commercials. "It's an obvious fact that we have a homeless problem in New York City - walk down any street in New York and you'll see that," Monfredo says. "This show would give them a second chance at life. It would definitely take people off the streets."...... Some photos from the show
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