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i'm abby martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear a new right separate story extra at why same time there's a reason they don't want you to know. that we. now let's break the set. here we are in lakewood like with new jersey usa and what was going on in this town is really like unique in that there's a major what we call gentrification one group of people is moving into the town
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and getting the lion's share of the housing through what it is is this new community is going in and they're they're buying up the homes but they're buying it up with the recycled taxpayer dollars see the ten it belongs to this group but also the landlord belongs to this group also so that the welfare money that goes to a pay for their apartment goes back to the landlord in a same group so that money stays within their community and it's just recycle and so what what's happening here is they're buying up the rest of the community with tax taxpayer dollars and so basically what it is is the person living in a home is paying taxes he's paying for his home to be bought up by this new group. this is you know it's just not right it's just wrong and the the politicians are allowing it because a new population has a voting bloc and they vote as one organized group. and so come election
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time all the politicians want those thousands of votes on their side so they look the other way what they're doing in lakewood is illegal it's it's wrong it's unethical but the politicians look the other way because they want the votes of this voting bloc. this is the news the. solution is the problem is so this was this that's what. it's like is that because those who like for peace. peter from whom is this. to keep the president or from the top of homes. you know whose work would make for the cable is good you know sometimes with certain to clear the situations and put situations to slip through the cracks i was one of those people to slip through the cracks so really trying to redefine what my my
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problems are now and come up with a solution that's going to cost was this to him probably some. of us from the inside. think i'll know we filled out an application or not but i'll give you the paperwork to fill an application out on net and we'll keep that open for you so but you know like we're going to meet with social services because like i said that we will you know we're going to split the bill with them because they're paying they're paying for your housing now so it makes more sense to take you out of the motel because it's costing more for you to live in that motel than it would for us to put you in housing so i'm going to see if we can work a deal out with them they can work very close with us ok. thank you for that what i at every said that but i want you to understand we don't
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just help you know people intensity we help anybody that needs help so tell your friend to just give us a call and we'll take care of him ok you got it ok bye. if social services were pretty nice people up in hotels then they spend fifteen hundred dollars a month per person chest to put them in a hotel room so they spend fifteen hundred per person so if you calculated that you know times twelve times eighty people which we you know i have here fact we have over eighty people a year and so it's about a million dollars a year that the government spends on housing eighty homeless people in hotel rooms so housing people up here that's about my that's about my monthly budget is one is fifteen hundred for eighty people so we're saving the government a lot of money by you know creating a system like this there's a lot of government ways that's all taxpayer money that's all you know people
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paying their taxes are going to wait that they're wasting taxpayer dollars. it's probably the hardest thing i'm going to do in my life. this. was. because the public the average person doesn't see what has to be done you know there's a court order saying that you know people have to be put up so most people think they're well you just take it you know put people up but these people are there they have different missions and sometimes you know you might run across some might it's megan's law or some might it have been in jail for murder or whatever it may be you know drug addiction or people selling drugs or alcohol how are the hallmarks you know all of those type of things that you have to deal with and how do you deal with it you know what do you do you just take all of those people and just put them in and somebody is neighborhood you know no you know you
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have to find the right spot who are that person. ugh. you know i thought that there was a for animal shelters in ocean county and ours is funded by the government by the or at least partially funded by the government but what i find on all those seventy seven animal shelters in ocean county this county and we don't have any shelters for human beings in this county you know they'll put people up at a hotel for a year and that's. really. sad because. it.
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wasn't bad to do it right. this the guy you kind of thought. they'd tell his story a week ago he used only the rich god and saying how a mistake i'm never going to get and sun city and today when one fell swoop got a place to live and saw it monday i'll be out here with my dog the township has been quite aggressive lately i think what they were doing is they wanted to. wait for the winter time to see how many people they could read out in the wintertime sears you know how many people they can i wouldn't make it through winter with the cold weather you know that would might have an option so i think that's why they waited until now to try to really you know start housing people as you see i don't know if you know but we've been pulling them out a lot about peabody i hear people say we're not we could do we did a good job like you michael said we couldn't do it using your time you get out of a boat get. well you see. the amazing.
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people said we were going to be able to do this you know and but what they forgot about is that. i work in a court. yes you know i go to court all the time i meet all the landlords in the county so over to you know several years of landlords all got to really know me and they've given me a lot of breaks you know. in putting people up and i really got to thank the landlords because as you may see there's a lot of different issues out here with people so the landlords only thing they asked for me is that if there's an issue that the landlord can call me and i can try to mediate the issue i mean and that's what i try to do you know so that helps us a great deal that i would get a lot of people out to me to be in the line of work. for well oh yeah all these. actually.
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not too much. like there's a line in the store. there in the. to get it home with him. for change looking at rain and snow. although i must say. i think you are still. a little bit. on the good news for those who is no cool knightly from the bike last. pool. then. when i was you know i was saying so the sixty five knots and quill two for the morning and twelve year old kid would want to get her. in the morning you know
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people a lot younger so you know tell you the truth it's nice to sleep through the night taking a while to get used to having a stone. i found a number of things. and it's just like. the all. the mood in. the. home run into someone to become to actually. have a beautiful baby girl the slave driver i am and yes well now she's in
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foster care. faustus and the state commissions of force assume it's a case of the service you give a year through that your return or don't they can the dots if you like were never sued rises in our week you know this is not a. good spend more time so. many. if she was a keeper they could get look at it. but she won't do it. with you if you want to keep a baby and loving you know insisted. that charity has four kids can already see through it they make a family and person whole town. and sort of for the
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government to take away that child from the person that you know has those inherent instincts to take care of that baby them to give that baby to somebody else just doesn't seem the most efficient you know man proper and ethical way to handle the situation on that. do whatever you can to go help that mother do it she can to to be you know to be the proper mother i would hope and a wish for them that you know well mo would be able to get their baby back. but. personally i don't believe it's going to. be interviewed.
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you can be almost or even be you know all in going to hell when they didn't talk and that is because he does a lot of money good. so not only get away with it but he essentially bodyguard the truth that you have. so is not necessarily the problem of the world you know it's real and then through. the side throughout the culture. you see never really. gets laid again the able and livability watches. in place use the metaphor. of. ludwig he's nearly eighteen years old and he's probably living there like you've read that this committed different. time you know you haven't
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a clue. yeah but is eighteen years old i'm eligible for the disposable and that's what we're trying to help you don't know everybody get the like that but it's just so many people so many crisis out here that it's really hard you know to most agencies most employers they go to would use a temporary. and you just see rescue workers if you want someone to disprove the record and most people up to say no they don't want to they're not willing to give them a victory it's only those second chances to move even after they've food to do so that that's a side they still have astigmatism the horse and the follows. and it makes the flow. so this very difficult to. get what i need you know flowers good for a table for my family you know i don't want to be on welfare i would like to go on for them on the five a day you know and provide for my family i suppose. it's
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a moment of truth here. we'd always dony. we live where we don't live this state decides. that's not you get out. i want to get a photo id so we can open a bank. just i don't have my social security card and i think in a new line even though how all this stuff coming kay social security and almost nothing you believe these monsters that lets the chips adjust to giving it a marriage license. a copy of the photo of the social security card. a
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letter from social security would says it's legally a powerful. proof of the dress utility bill oh no no no no no that's not good enough we're going to open the bank account right now because our grant money came in a check we can deposit the check anywhere so we can't use the money it's just a check he sends. me. so basically you're on the queue right yeah. i mean if he can't get. any aspect of the home. but he didn't get any documentation this week if you drop. so we're still. struggling with record how. come. you know this is your awkward.
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place a night's sleep well you know. like. crazy yeah i was about to share it with you so i'm happy you're happy and there are not he said she the place stuff this is just something that with nice furniture. at the head of the only a few. steps towards ending. the last. two weeks widely two years thing years he says are going to make homelessness a crime. so there are a lot more homeless people. so that that's a good that's a good. that's a good solution right you know. the taxpayer pays a lot more money. to work. with rehabilitation
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programs affordable housing which is possible you know the portable housing is possible they could be built portable and they choose not to do it you know they choose to build. here rather than you know. they all have to be locked up or they can't find. it so. it's. so a fight over time. and like you can see he's lost and i have who almost lost it on i. if i catch it in time usually i usually. i can say they're right but. sometimes i plan. it's a dead in the end it proved to be and there were
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a number of. these. due to. overdoses and mixing. with drugs. there were no overdoses the could have been prevented the gentleman who died in the fire he was cast from the live feed away from. maryland say disliked wine. and yet nothing was done. deal with the situation you know to put. when you say ladies you have things you were more constructive no activity they were more constructive. a mother a closer still haven't received any food stamps. to try to guess only from a family. i came up here mr steve looks awfully good visions of cat
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food from which look if you live a. little bit but in the staging areas of. the phoenix. there are people that you know are so used to being out here getting that help and you know don't want to do for them sure i understand understand that you know we're we're not going to put everybody in a house and they're going to like you know because they're going to want to come back out here would they can get food and get clothing in and get all the free stuff but she i think that some time doing it is bad because you know old folks sometimes they need are not you know like for instance if you look around here you know it could be cleaned up a lot a lot better so that there needs to be some structure and you know work as you go along you know so if they work you know you get paid you know they need to be some
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type of system to do that to make that happen. here too. i think it was too much for steve to do all by himself you know. but it's hard to get people in fact. steve kind of this is the type for gusts of white to have. interference seen almost fell off track i mean i don't remember when we first picked up the. right away i said to him well what or what kind of jobs you know. assign us some jobs everybody here should have a job and he wouldn't hear of it. but really that's how it should get everybody. i would have liked to have been more like the sanitation. you know america has created i believe that to some degree this entitle that mentality where people believe the government has a responsibility to support them you know to take care of it's it's somebody else's
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responsibility to feed them or words. and you know i mean to a degree there's something there you know if you somebody is disabled or somebody can't take care of themselves the society you know should have the humanity to be you know to take care of them. but on the other hand you know there's a responsibility of individuals to contribute to the society contribute to their needs and to the needs of the society yeah believe according to the consent order and you got to take another look at it but i believe that the camp is you know allowed to stay open for another year in case somebody loses their housing they can come back to tent city for a. temporary space of time until they can get new housing so i believe the camp will stay open for another year even after the last person whose house according to the concern over. we're still. still deciding where to put all the sticks and sticks sticks sticks to make the really sorry about the stove
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because. i would have to go far for sticks that's the way. the engineer bird some of them are. they all came there was no way to take care of them because they came to us. work began we don't eat at all so we don't need a. we took care of them there are comparing and some friends. we do our best for them. i really think that they shouldn't be real housing. people here. they should find some of the stark tent city over here because. they really i mean it's hard it's it isn't it is hard to live there. it's better than and what's coming. you know at the end of an evening here they're
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going to have nothing they are really in a half sets me very much because you get used to living indoors and that. you know stuff but nothing all over and it's still. some of the folks that we've already put up they do not have those survival skills on because they're you know they're asking for certain things to get done for. you know they want somebody to come in and do all they should be and i say to them you know you got to make their home phone call you got a call there i said if you have a problem then you call us and then we'll get involved so these are the type of things that we're trying to teach them you know out there. you know i know people are going to come in you know bringing you know lots of food and lots of clothing in and all of that stuff yes it's needed for some people but some people it's not
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some people you know we want them to you know learn to survive that they have to get out of here and get a job if they don't get a job they don't have you know s.s.i. or s.s. d a journalist systems or anything like that so yes this is about survival this first year is going to be survival training and. it's. just all said take him you know doing his thing. anything. eventual you know will be polls this week but there always will be some type of kid sitting somewhere because where the people want to go. don't anybody ever think that there's not going to be a. might not be
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a teacher in this particular spot but i guarantee you as long as you know our government continues not to recognize that we have issues you always going to have tent cities. this is what we do we kill people and break things we can see something if simple as people playing a soccer game you can see individual players in the community of the ball. i can
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almost see is facial expression can we see is a mouth open and crying out. maybe he cursed us or maybe he asked. for forgiveness for. there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. but if under will show harm and why should be making news all the face i think i feel alone. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v.
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