Camden, New Jersey Tent City

[Purveyor]

Camden, New Jersey (My9NJ) -
Tent cities have popped up across New Jersey including the state's poorest city.

Meg Baker chased the story of Camden's tent city. Residing off Route 38 at Wilson Boulevard under an overpass, through woods and down a path of trash lays a community of people living in tents. This particular community was relocated from Federal Street and it's inhabited by an array of people: addicts, people who have fallen on hard times and some with mental illness.

Baker took a tour of this run down community and the pictures show just how heart-wrenching this situation really is. Among the homes are decomposing food, broken furniture, and feral cats.

When asked how long a woman had lived there, she only answered, "Too long."

Many of the people who live in the Camden tent city walk down to Cathedral Kitchen. The chef says he feeds about a hundred people a day from the tent city.

more...

http://www.my9nj.com/story/22989373/camden-tent-city

[Safetykitten]

1. They have choices. Amazon, Costco or Hawaii. Slacker poor people.

[sharp_stick]

8. Someone bump the stereo

records stuck again.

[NYC_SKP]

2. They are everywhere. A growing demographic.

Meantime, the rich get richer and richer and richer and Congress does nothing.

No-thing.

[Safetykitten]

4. They can find those oh so common full time jobs they are talking about.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Did you see any of the comments made by readers on the article website?

"Obamaville", everyone there is blaming Obama and not a shred of blame placed on Congress or credit to Obama.

We have more public improvement, street and highway and other projects, happening these past five years than I've seen in the prior 16 years.

These are jobs, great jobs, and much needed improvements to our infrastructure.

Yet Fox News watching assholes want to blame Obama.

Don't they have jobs they should be attending to?

[Safetykitten]

6. Lifelong Democrat here. Obama is to blame.

Five years.

[wandy]

7. Please let me try to explain. It's the new math...........

100/2 = 60
You see in the old math 100/2 = 50 so 51 would be a majority. Congress needs a majority to do anything.
In todays new republican math where 100/2 = 60, NOTHING GETS DONE!

[sharp_stick]

9. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I think such tent cities exist everywhere in the country. I live in a small

city of 75,000 or so and we have one.