BON JOVI TAKES CENTRAL PARK, BUILDS HOMES IN DETROIT
Bon Jovi played a free concert in Central Park over the weekend, and last week he helped Detroit build affordable housing. |
Bon Jovi performed a set of their hits in Central Park in New York City Saturday, July 12, in honor of the All-Star game in Yankee Stadium. The stadium is in its last year, and is the most hallowed ground in baseball. The band performed “Livin’ On A Prayer’,” “Runaway,” and “You Give Love A Bad Name,” among others. |
Earlier in the week singer Jon Bon Jovi was in Detroit as part of an initiative between Saturn motors, Habitat For Humanity, and his Philadelphia Soul foundation, which is the charitable part of his arena football team. He talked about why the issue of housing strikes a chord in him. |
“I picked the idea of affordable housing and breaking the chains of poverty when I was viewing out of a hotel window in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of our nation. The place where our forefathers wrote Declaration Of Independence. And as I saw a man sleeping on the steps of City Hall in in the middle of winter I thought to myself, ‘This isn’t what they were thinking at the time.’ And we had been involved in a lot of little think if it was a Covenant House, an AIDS house, or a Veteran’s Hospital, or a playground or a foster home. We were Robin Hood. You call the Soul, the Soul can fix it. the Soul can fix it. But this was something that I said, ‘It doesn’t matter if you’re young or you’re old, you’re rich or you’re poor, you’re white or you’re black, Republican or Democrat. Homelessness can affect anyone at anytime.” |
As part of the initiative, Jon Bon Jovi announced the building of five homes in the MorningSide community on Detroit’s East Side. The houses have just been torn down and the first wall was put up. Construction is set to complete by November. |
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