Where are Lakewood’s Tent City residents one year later, and what are they up to? The former homeless camp off Cedarbridge Avenue, once home to about 100 residents, was shut last Summer, but the founder says that only about 20% of the homeless have actually found a home and the rest are scattered around the area.
Watch the video as Steven Brigham talks about what the closure meant to him and his followers, and what the plans are for the future.
they had a year to try and find a job that’s more then enough time. stop expecting everyone help you if you aren’t willing to help yourself!
They don’t want to be helped!
Steve B. gives no numbers, just makes claims that very few were helped. Is he missing the excitement of wrestling with the local, county, and state governments while he creates his own congregation in the woods? I hope all of the well intentioned but misguided folks who used to bring food, clothing, and fuel to tent city have discovered valid organizations where they can donate to those in need.
Why on earth is TLS giving this guy any face time? He’s been proven time again to be just another anarchist.
The ones that didn’t get help did not apply for help.
It is sad to say that most of thoses who had housing are addicts. They g I t a spot to live for a year free. Until we as a community address the drug problem in ocean county there are goin to bigger tent city’s. If your not ready to get clean and change your life. Nothing is go to change. Tent city in Lakewood became a drug city, and a breeding ground for the poor cats and dogs that ended up there. It’s time to stop ignoring the problem and time to found some solutions.
It’s only fair that when the Tent City Commons Development is built those that are still homeless should get a government subsidy towards the purchase of a town house on that land.
Lakewood was kind enough to give housing for a year to get these elements on their own feet, it costed a lot of money. Lakewood is not obligated to take care of them for life. I never heard anyone from Tent City thank the twp. for picking up their garbage for years and sending rescue to to put out their fires. and many other services. Let’s remember that these people illegally trespassed on Lakewood’s property. If there is no shelter in Ocean County it’s not Lakewood’s problem, the problem was that they didn’t throw them out sooner, we would have saved a lot of money and law-suits, also this town would have had cleaner air quality all those years.
They were help all of them, and people that wasn’t even there for the census. From like 75 people to almost a hundred. Most went for the money and the ones placed they’re supposed to find a job or get help from special response. They had housing for a whole year. What else do you want?