New Jersey officials are facing some heat against the backdrop of reports that officials in the Lakewood Township area apparently really really dislike unhoused people. According to social media, the area is facing intense heat after officials intentionally chopped down all of the trees in the town square in an effort to quite literally keep homeless people out. That appeared to be an effort by officials concerned about the supposed growing number of unhoused people gathering in the shade in the square.
Lakewood ‘s mayor per several reports maintains that such was done after several complaints came down the pipeline about the presence of unhoused people in the square. Advocates for the unhoused (often which include people who simply fell on hard times at no fault of their own) have called the move wildly cruel and a slap in the face.
Rev. Steve Brigham, an advocate for unhoused people who runs Lakewood Outreach Ministry Church, had lots to say on Facebook about the matter.
“These trees were over forty years old, and offered shade to the poor and homeless that would come there to find respite and to socialize with their neighbors,” Brigham wrote on Facebook
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