Shameless self-promotion

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Tent City, Three Ways (via NJ News Commons)

News outlets ranging from the AP to the Lakewood Scoop have covered the ongoing saga of Lakewood’s Tent City, an encampment of about 80 homeless people, which the town has been trying to shut down for years. This spring a deal was struck: Tent…

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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  1. Very sad, it's no picnic living out in the elements with no running water, proper toilet facilities, decent medical/dental care and basic safety. These people didn't set out to live in a tent city, it was out of desperation and a lack of options that forced them to live in such crude and brutal conditions. They can be evicted or harassed at any given moment, there's no security whatsoever. I hope something can be done for these desperate people who have fallen into an abyss of poverty and despair.

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