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Another tent community in New Jersey faces shut down and "relocation."

Apparently there are around 30 campers in this community.

Once again in this article the local government is faulting the camp for allowing new members to join the Mayor saying “[i]t [the camp] seems to gain residents faster than this committee can get them out.”

Not sure if the "get them out" in this statement is meant to mean helping the homeless find shelter or meant to mean kick the camp out of the place where it is now. In either event, how is the local government able to time-and-time again fault a tent encampment for allowing new people to stay at the camp.

If the local government does not provide adequate shelter---where are these people supposed to go? It is not the tent camp’s fault. The burden lands squarely on the shoulders of the local government.

The Township is gearing up to shut the tent camp down. In the legal brief the township attorney does not use the word eviction but instead substitutes the word relocation because he does not like the word eviction. However, changing the word DOES NOT change the meaning of the overall attempt to shut down and evict the campers.
(Editor's note - Please read the comments to the story)

http://www.app.com/article/20100419/NEWS/4190360/Tent-camp-dwellers-facing-relocation

This also is part of the story and has a MUST WATCH 4 minute video about the camp and short clips of New Jersey State Senator (and mayor?) Robert Singer.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/lakewood_proposes_relocating_h.html