Homeless

Residents of a New Jersey homeless encampment will not be evicted from their tents in the woods without being offered indoor housing for at least a year under terms of an agreement reached Friday.

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New Jersey has been awarded more than $24 million by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care program to help support hundreds of homeless projects.

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A New Jersey man captured on video beating a homeless man days before Christmas in 2011 has been sentenced to three years in prison.

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Just a formality. That's what Lakewood Mayor Al Akerman is calling violations ordering a so-called Tent City to remove all its tents and wood-burning stoves by today.

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Bitter Arctic air continues to plague the Garden State with unbearable temperatures. Just think - just six months ago, we were all complaining about 90 degree weather and a series of heatwaves during the Summer season. Now, it's a total 180.

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Every year, nearly 30,000 New Jerseyans find themselves homeless. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, many others were forced from their homes and into shelters and hotel rooms.

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I won’t fault Officer Larry DePrimo for seemingly doing the right thing and giving a barefoot homeless man a pair of boots on a cold night in Manhattan recently.

How many times have you seen a homeless person wandering around and have said to yourself, “…there but for the grace of God go I!”

But then reason takes hold, and you think that perhaps that “donation” you’re about to make will be for naught

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Representatives of two medical groups have donated winter clothing, medicine and supplies to residents of Tent City, a homeless encampment in the woods of Lakewood.

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Proposed legislation to end the practice of "Greyhound Therapy" - where counties/municipalities put their homeless on a bus and send them blindly to Atlantic County- is being considered a positive first step by members of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, however it's only the begging of a much larger conversation.

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"We want to help the homeless out, we just don't want to be a dumping ground."

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