Minister Brigham Update on Tent City Lakewood One Year Later TLS

well it's it's been a year since 10 city was closed here we're a year past the closing date and we've got uh everybody has lost their housing their one year worth of housing that was uh part of the settlement of the closing of tent city uh everybody that was housed for a year is out of their housing um and so most of them are back in the woods again there's a few that were able to be helped by the government longer term but the vast majority of the people of tent city are getting just scattered to the Four Winds scattered to to uh patches of woods P here and there you know in different towns Lakewood just all over the place so the closing of tent city didn't fix anything for anybody again maybe a small percentage was able to get some uh extended government help but a small fraction uh maybe maybe 20% of the people of T City so again we're you know we're back to we're back to uh Square One Ground Zero and there is no shelter in Ocean County in fact uh the Atlantic City Rescue Mission is not accepting anybody from outside of Atlantic County anymore what used to be an option for the homeless of Ocean County the Atlantic City Rescue Mission is no longer an option for the people of uh so instead of having more help more opportunities more options we've gotten less options for the homeless so um you know again you know we're a society that's going to be judged on how we treat the poor uh of our of our society and uh what we're doing here is we're failing miserably as a society to to uh to uh you know to help and affect the the least of our community the least of our society so again I think we have to do better you know people were uh exiled to Babylon for 70 years for selling the poor for a pair of shoes and so uh again you again I think we'll be judged on how we treat the poor this time around all so