Tent City

>Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights."

This Universal Declaration, was it signed by John Hancock? Or anyone else we might have heard of?

The local Hassidm must love having these folks as neighbors.

The greater question is: the responsibility for the health and welfare of these people fall on this shoulders of
A. Town of Lakewood
B. Ocean county (I think that's the co.)
C. State of N.J.
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

If you picked E Mr. Perry will be happy to accept your contribution
Or
See you in shul

If you picked D
You can vote for O but all your going to get is the hole in the middle

In the morning, will you understand what you wrote tonight?

I CALL BS!

This isn't a "heartbreaking homeless city" it's a neo-Hippie commune. if you actually look at the pictures everyone is smiling, there are homes with wallpaper (!), a washer and dryer (!!), a freezer (!) , etc., obviously there is electricity There are adorable porch chairs, "home sweet home" signs, and all kinds of things that point to a happy commune. Did anyone else notice the Costco pack of cookies in one smiling woman's "tent"?

These people should be envied, not pitied. They appear to have a pleasant lifestyle without a mortgage, big debt, or any other obligations.

Leave it to BusinessInsider to sensationalize in yet another lame attempt to be relevant. That's all BI ever does, it's chicken little journalism. They make FoxNews look logical.

All BI achieved with this article is embarrass the public officials who were previously turning a blind eye to the health regulations, fire codes, etc. So now they'll have to go in and break it up. In a lame attempt to sensationalize "the homeless" they have created a new group of truly homeless.

Way to go BI!

As a service to SE, I am linking to an explanation of hipsters, which I believe is what this little community is infested with. This is not a homeless community, the homeless just aren't into wallpaper. It is a hipster community with a few homeless thrown in for irony.

Someone send this to Business Insider so they can get a clue;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk&feature=player_embedded

that is incorrect needsabldvice. "hipster" live either in williamsburg, bushwick or thenles. tbey wear skinny jeans and stupid hats, drink cheap beer and most have a drug problem or eating disorder. all have trust funds and they cant camp out because they need to take the l train everywhere. these are real hippies.

Here in Fact-Based land, where I live, there is no way these folks are in Tent City by choice. The mere fact that people speak up on this list to say this is all phony is pretty disturbing.

Go back to your online shopping and your anti-depressants. There is a place that is not happy-pretty-bubbly all the time here, and you don't want to be here. It's called Reality.

These folks are in the woods by choice.
the choice is the woods or homeless shelters or the streets.
Free to choose.
Hipsters???
kidding...right?

So my future tax $$$$ are going to nation building in Iraq and Afghanland.
The former is rich with oil that could easily cover the burden of the cost but for some reason the U.S. is asleep to this fact. The Afghans are rich with mineral deposits that could also cover the costs.
I don't see anyone with a bill.
Spend the money right here in N.J. That would be insane!
I hear that the Somali's don't even have one lux shopping mall in the whole country!
We need to drop everything and build them a mall...that's why they arer so unhappy...they can consume at the proper rate. How they ever become wasteful capitalists?

falco, you live in nj?

THis just in: Camden, NJ is developing weapons of mass destruction!!! They are asking to be bomed so that the govt. can re-build them.

There are tent-cities all over the U.S.

Brazil-style.

Bullish!

jim, I live in Manhattan but my folks live in Brick N.J. which is the town that boarders Lakewood.
All this hubbub is located near EXIT 89.

falco! represent!

i know the area, i went to high school in monmouth county, then Rutgers. which is why i knew about the large Hassidic population there.

yes, you are allegedly from little silver. i remember that too.

So a google search on the streeteasy site for "little silver" doesn't reveal anything.

Do you two know each other from somewhere else? Did you used to date?

like you are allegedly attractive. and a photographic memory (or bookmarking whichever) doesnt mean shit if you dont comprehend what you have read. the train station is in little silver lucille. like my comment about exercising in the park that you didnt understand.

thx GG

reality sux for many--the lucky who won't see the obvious deserve to fallon hard times themselves

most "pull oneself up by the bootstraps" types couldn't pull shit if they had to