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change it we're here in tent city and this tent city is in lakewood new jersey the campus about seven years old it's one of the largest tent cities on the east coast of america and it's 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 public land and tells 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 and i live full time job 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 there's a shop right out of my love 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. it's it's unbalanced you have hardworking up stan. citizens who can afford homes.

you know thirty years thirty years we lived in new york with thirty year of them we've 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 in this you know in any security money but i don't regret it because we saved so many wonderful lives here yeah i'm assuming the textile industry preferred five years and it's just pretty much it's all been outsourced in china the industry was very large and

mostly new york based it was just stunning for babbar springs primarily to some logan's to. the furniture. and. i. went up the ladder into china and i was assigned to rock. in my biggest move. was managing like twenty yards 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 back 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 you're going to eat. just know we are not joining your original

psyche. 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 did not run till till. i did think he. was leaving time but he says if that's going to have an illness i have things that i don't know you have on this list and i would only reach it it's just that i mean i'm at

baghdad the family really think you just have a. better way and that's why it was like ok they don't think things are good you can be all in the hundreds i mean. you can have her. and then along with me. there is all this good being 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 on 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 to live you know. and those good children would slowly ruin

the people with. child one hand down right and. pretty much came here because i'm. pleased we had in the bar when. we were two hundred dollars short of a one of. four firemen and they make that us all of the stuff got taken away from us and everything and we wound it up here in every sense and used to stephen's been a blessing to list the open up his arms. and in a number wanted to. make a career being homeless. people like get into in the like a mess when they want to do it because it's free we're clear we're then no worries and we would if you if you can vicariously so lively stairsteps me personally i like stability unless.

you listen to the townspeople as your cross section. come out it never happened they have no idea what i'm like sometimes. 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 fascination a lot of them living in overcrowded conditions slumlord conditions a bad plumbing battle like tricity you know wires running all over the place crowded into small spaces. doing whatever they can do to secure their housing

a lot of it's substandard housing in there just a scraping by was easy to look beyond my. living. room. done i fear is the reason the. leave. the end of the. house would. be easy. because. when we both. don't think any of this is subsidized i think the people are you know pay for this 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 coal mine documented 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 any subsidized housing if they're if they're. not doctrinaire. they're afraid of immigration you know immigration has been stepping up lately you know and if anybody gets told her time 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. ok. yeah. after coming here i've developed. the website for accounts that he and i

maintain it's facebook age. until know most people knew about tent city from local media outlets were trying to which ones are always very friendly for the website we're trying to put on our own our own voice and you know cover things from our perspective and the website 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. bring greater. things that will this this time of year starts to pick up so the summer summer is the hottest with let's say july and august slowest wants to donate them in separate cars and the kids go back to school picks up and then a really big some 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 work 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 started doing this full time. rise of the islamic state or isis in the middle east is said to reward a political realities in the region the west feel colonial agenda for the arab world is coming to an end it would seem the arab spring has been replaced with a jihadi summer. the interview.

ok let's go ahead and open up with a word of prayer. heavenly father we thank thee for another day that thou has given us the breath of life another day to enjoy the beauty and wonders of the great creation probably just as the thousand continue to help us in tent city even is now is already done by the b. c. the faithfulness and my kindness toward those father in need of valor here in tent city we see the real in tangible ways in which thou does care for the po-r. in the needy. we get pizza every day. name of jim he meets the 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 or self 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 amazing i have never seen a higher degree of self-sacrifice there because he is a true tour of vietnam combat that still. modern assembly modest guys thank. you very much in. 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 and is this in. wake up and just get me a ball is theory oh no because before i used to asking for like all types of food a nams night craving the you have to believe in the morning and it is not moral hamburger i don't remember you the hamburger room name did i am. going to i mean a burger i'm going mostly. you know if somebody is hungry intensity they want to be hungry. because they don't have enough food and most people don't clean up your.

well steve 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 grows old townships closing it down and then we're going to go to another phase. of the. last. but it's on this year's over hope to be in my part. because everybody i remember if i'm one year when the 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. for some of the picture of the wound mother kid is not with me and for shirley. but he's in foster care and myla my concerns with kids i love kids and i pretty much just saw the kids out there like. i was in foster care myself but there is hope out here and i just want all the kids know that you known i'll be continuing to fight for all the kids out there including mine and never give up on whole the wonderful day for them to have a good day guys. lose. their. brain tumor.

yeah we do think it's romantic we fight over 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 you give it everything i didn't say you said it right there you know the. stuff i said you'd think we were wouldn't be busy believe me all the time i juvies this you know it's very hard work you know every damn good little thing you do is work you know or if i get to wash

dishes i have to heat water i have to get water because all the water sprouted you know. very hard work. but she did one daughter she's been here for to. strive with that three grandkids i'm usually pretty much lost touch i haven't talked to them in years. really and we haven't talked to anybody since we came here except i did talk to her daughter until i found out to choose dumped all our stuff all my paintings is like you say on michael sivy signees he said we had already in. that region. when we came here we weren't sure we would stand a wheel we brought the necessities oh no no. he.

lost. his 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 here 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 to 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 that you just house intensity is definitely the most well maintained they put a lot of effort into it. they have they have made it look like a candy house doesn't like something from a storybook they made their own street what does it say one paradise lane it's just

people that are trying to live you know they they're making the best of a bad situation 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. student on to get us off the land and a lawyer stood up on our behalf a very strong lawyer i 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 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. court case since the consent order was signed but nobody has gotten housing through the township. the other night we experienced

the worst of the harassment from the police in the township that we've ever experienced up to this time they came in and they started ticketing people giving people take it for burning their wood stoves. already. assigned seats. we were taught this is just the present. you have to deal with those it's not easy. to move this morning is a good day with 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 this is them going to get better. nonoy right now i have no other options all i have is tent city i have no other house no apartment no other options i'm totally homeless i'm totally unlike

anybody else in ten said 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. out he's in the boat. and god's not going to let it in the way that the township thinks started storing ten. because god is about justice god is about fairness god is about equality god is about the principles that the founding fathers of america

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