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ok it we're here in tent city and this tent city is in lakewood new jersey the camp is about seven years old it's one of the largest ten cities on the east coast of america and six got about one hundred people here it's very diverse racially diverse culturally diverse all the old reasons of the traditional reasons for homelessness you've got alcoholism yet mental illness you've got other types of addiction you know but now we've got people here just because of economics solely because of economics the cost of housing in this area especially is very high it takes three minimum wage jobs for a single individual to afford the basic necessities of life if this is public land . and we're part of the public and they've created an environment where we can

afford a place to live i believe as an american we have a right. to camp out or to possess public land and tell something is created. it might appear that tent city is you know everybody's just you know drinking or you know you know causing problems for each other and where expecting government handouts that's not the case it's the first line of attack from people who don't like tent city or from people who don't like the homeless the first line get a job that's what that's the line right that's not the case most of the people work here i live full time jobs a lot of people have full time jobs and i still can't afford a home that's why i'm here i'm a overnight clerk there's a shop right about a mile of the road i work overnight stuff and i back. you know i work full time make my paycheck put it in the bank and i save it i still live in a tent i'm not i don't i'm not any sort of government assistance i make too much

money. so because i work full time i'm too rich you have to make less than a certain amount of money and it's appends on your household the number of people in your house it's just me i'm not married no kids so for me the money that i make i'm too wealthy i do qualify for food stamps i can get about forty two dollars a month in food stamps on a sliding scale the maximum for one person is two hundred dollars a month and the minimum i think is about twenty dollars a month depending on how much money you make so because i work full time i'm too rich to get welfare or temporary rent assistance or general assistance where they just give you a check for one hundred forty dollars a month so i'm too wealthy. go figure to wealthy that's my house you see back there i live in a tent i'm too wealthy to get general systems. is i mean this this works out this is right this isn't the way america is supposed to be ok it's it's unbalanced you have hard work. upstanding citizens who can afford homes.

you know thirty years thirty years we lived in new york with thirty in your family been vegetarian. and we rescue animals we only lived in new york city we spent tens of thousands of dollars rescue us believe in the tens of thousands of dollars rescuing birds we if we hadn't done we wouldn't have been home with. what do they call it in this and this you know what any good had security money but i don't regret it because we saved so many wonderful lives here yeah i'm assuming the textile industry preferred years and it's just pretty much a small been outsourced in china the industry was very large blue mostly new york

based it was just stunning from that bird's friends primarily did some low things to. the furniture. and. some went up the ladder into china and i was designed to run. in my biggest. business man it's like trying hard. to you know you did many. years design so millions of dollars you see. pennies on the tallent pennies on the docket it literally. choose to. lie to my boss. like it's a. right chance to talk right. so that he could get some cash let me each of them actually two or three of them they each made a million and happy here. she. just those three i'm not counting every thing else

thank you. i was really quite successful. so that it's you know there's a lot of reasons why people end up in tent city but again you know i i don't ask any questions when they come down here and they say i have no place to stay you know we'll give them a tent you know just gave give them some basic rules and the fundamental rule is respect your neighbor you know get along with your neighbor and for the most part they they do the community is quite quite good about getting along with each other and the barber coming back from it right now that i mean that right you'll still. get thank you. tom but he's a that's got to have an illness i think that and i have held you up on this well if

i would have been reached at all right now i mean i'm at baghdad the family relates thank you dabble. in bad ways that's why we're going to keep you don't think things are good think you can be all right the hundreds i mean. you can have her. and then along with me. all this would be donated here this comes from a high end warehouse. in a neighboring town a few far from here maybe maybe three miles and what it is is when it gets close to the date you know the expiration date they can't send it out to their people so so they don't they get you know a tax write off on you know one of things that they donate so it benefits us to still you know in date very close to date but in date and it's a true you know tremendous you know benefit for the homeless thing is we good we still don't have a place that. you know which girl. who knows bill shorten would slowly

ruin the people woman. and child when i'm gone i think i am. pretty much came here because on. we had in the bar when. we were two hundred dollars short of a one month. for our farm in the event that does all of this stuff got taken away from us and everything and we wound up here in every sense and used to stephen's been a blessing to listen he opened up his songs. and in a number wanted to. make a career being homeless. the ills of people like get into in the like a mess when they want to do because it's free we're going to pay we're then no worries i would if you if you can vicariously so mildly stairsteps good thing for me personally i like stability in life.

so you listen to the townspeople as your cross section. come out it never happened they have no idea what i'm like sometimes. so a lot of times will get. things donated by companies. so it's better to just whatever i get i just give out freely i never charge he's. a lot of these people especially the spanish the mexican fighting nation a lot of them are living in overcrowded conditions slumlord conditions are bad plumbing battle like tricity you know wires running all over the place crowded into . small spaces you know doing whatever they can do to secure their housing

a lot of it's substandard housing and they're just the scraping by was easy to look beyond my. living. and. none i fear is the reason the. leave. the end of the. house would. be easy. because. we both. don't think any of this is subsidized i think the people are you know bank but this is out of their own pocket and again it was probably

a couple of bamn least living per bartman here sharing the expenses of the apartment but i don't think in most of the mexicans you know a lot of them aren't registered americans or legal americans so are the column undocumented so they can't get any government help you know maybe if their children were born here they can get some food stamp money but they won't get into subsidized housing if they're if they're. not doctrinaire. and well they're afraid of immigration you know immigration has been stepping up lately you know and if anybody gets pulled over time to you know legal infraction there are no sending them back to mexico people are very wary very wary right now. you know of anybody strange no. yeah. after coming here often. developed

a new website for accounts that he and i maintain it's facebook age. until know most people knew about tent city from local media outlets which aren't all which ones are always very friendly for the website we're trying to put out our own our own voice and you know cover things from our perspective and on the web site reaches out to. people for different kinds of things you know it's it's for you know just news and happenings really density in some ways they can they can help. us. ok i think it will this this time of year starts to pick up so the summer summer is the hardest for the camp let's say july and august at a slower slice for people who don't need them and that because the kids go back to school picked up and then a really big jump from november to december christmastime. i was working for

a high voltage electrical contractor doing work in the lincoln tunnel by holland tunnel the george washington bridge and then coming home at night and going out to the woods and bringing sleeping bags and you know propane in the wintertime you know doing whatever i could to help them out and then after a while i realized i couldn't do both i couldn't keep my job working up in new york city and then come down to you know come down here and go out into the woods at night time all over the place and meet the needs of the home so i decided to leave my job and i started doing this full time. well. science technology innovation called the least developed mints from around russia we've got the future covered.

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day that has given us the breath of life another day to enjoy the beauty and the wonders of the great creation. would continue to help us intensity even is that all is all ready done by the b. c. the they will miss and i kind toward those father in need while here in tent city we see the real in tangible ways in which thou does care for the poor and the needy. we get pizza every day. name of jim he meets me out of the root of bob o'clock in the morning he goes around to about ten pizza parlors at the end of the day whatever they've got left over and they didn't sell on the shelf they donate you know to tim or to the homeless or answer champix that i've been that he goes and he sleeps on the road he's homeless himself lives

in his car and it's all he does all day long as he takes people to the doctor you pick up from bakeries delivered a pantries and he does this all on his his pension check he sleeps in his car and spends his money on helping people all day long yes amazed you have never seen a higher degree of self sacrifice them because he is a true tour of vietnam combat that still. mom is simply mom to guys thank. you very much and. a lot of it and so i believe the words of the bible i believe there's eternal life so that's what i'm investing in other words it's mine because i believe it and so what i've got here i can use to help other people because i don't have to attain anything here this is just an investment for what's to calm. it. down because this is real and he's asking because all i do is wake up in the. zz's and.

wake up and just get me up always theory on milk because before you say asking for like odd types of food and now i'm just like craving the executive to meet you in the morning but it is not at all hamburg i don't know you to hamburg of are named you dan and i think you go on that cooler and i mean a burger run will be mostly anything you get your if somebody is hungry in tent city they want to be hungry. because they don't have enough food for most people it don't mean you can still stink oh yeah they're. hoping that by example they would learn a lesson but. again it's typical you know the path of least resistance whatever's easier and all that's tendency with human beings you know the human nature is just to find the easiest way out a lot of times for somebody else one is willing to do the work let him do it so.

you know i don't mind doing it but it's you know short term this tent city is not going to be forever just goes towards our ships are closing it down and then we're going to go to another phase. last. but it's on this year's over hope to be in my apartment. thanks very much i don't remember if the one year when that year is up hopefully i'll be gainfully employed and i'll be able to be self-sufficient. you know back on the right track so i'll go for. it take care you know i found. that's the goal. post another picture of the wound my other kid is not with me and for selena. but he's in foster care and myla my concerns with kids i love kids and i must say. all

the kids out there playground i was in foster care myself but there is so bell here and i just want all the kids to know they. i'll be continuing to fight for all the kids out there including my name never give up on hold for the wonderful truth that they have a good day goes. to. the loo the moon the. new things. new. all the room.

yeah we do think it's romantic we fight for it all the time but. who gets to make the fly who makes the best buy and of course you know who makes the best buy or don't you know well that if. i didn't say you said it right there you know the. stuff i said you'd think we were wouldn't be busy but feel the tide juvies this you know it's very hard work kiddo every back pedal thing you do is work you know if i get to wash dishes i have to heat water i have to get water it's all the water sprouse it you know. very hard work. but she did one daughter she's ten or forty so i. strive we've got three grains heads and blue pretty much lost. such haven't talked to me in years.

oh i was illegal really and we haven't talked to anybody since we came here except cry i did talk to daughter tell i fancy she dumped all our stuff all my paintings might be sitting on michael sivy listening to music so we had to hurry and. that week. when we came here we weren't sure we would stand a wheel we brought the necessities. none. on laws. is house of learning. because all my free time i like to study so i had to be an official house of learning. is my desk this is where i do my reading. study books hear

a lot of his biblical you know religious freak or religious fanatic but a lot of stuff that i study is biblical also mathematics and physics i mean to quantum physics currently i'm saying for myself it's just i consider knowledge is that the best use of your time is just gain as much as you can. this is like a it's like a gingerbread house to judas thousand tensity is definitely the most well maintained they put a lot of effort into it. they have they had they it looks like a candy house doesn't it like something from a storybook they made their own street what is this a one paradise lane it's just people that are trying to live you know they they're making the best of a bad situation really then battling the township for of three years now since two thousand and ten they took us to court they sued us township of lakewood sued the homeless. certain to get us off the land and a lawyer stood up on our behalf a very strong. belong to

a very powerful lawyer firm they spent over a million and a half dollars representing us and so he we kind of reached a compromise that the what we would do is we would take a year's worth of housing that's what's supposed to be happening but with the township is doing is trying to figure out any way they can to disqualify the people down intensity so that it's been a half a year since that that court case since the consent order was signed but nobody has gotten housing through the township and really the other night we experienced the worst harassment from the a police in the township that we've ever experienced up to this time they came in and they started ticketing people giving people tickets for burning their woodstoves. on our. assigned seats. we were taught this is just the present.

you have to deal with this it's not easy. to move all of this what is a good day will smile so the cup of coffee. every day is good because you know woke us up this morning but some days you know the double of the take a day off so he can pressure you into thinking that it is never going to get better . nonoy right now i have no other options all i have this tent city i have no other house no apartment no other options i'm totally homeless i'm totally at like anybody else intensity if the township closes down ten city i've got no place to go my parents were very giving and self sacrificing so i think i picked up those traits from my parents and you know also my religious beliefs also ok in test i'm coming ok thanks. i feel much more fulfilled much. more satisfied

much more complete as a human being reaching out to other people. but i'll tell you one thing. god is in the boat. got out he's in the boat. and god's not going to let it in the way that the township thinks that it's going to hand because god is about justice god isn't down there in this town is about equality god is about the principles that the founding fathers of america spend so much time and concern in addressing the fairness of a good society. yes they'll criticize some other country for their human rights violations in my book that's called hypocrisy my book that's cold injustice or to clisson. mom

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