The Avos were wealthy, through Hashem’s bracha in their work, and so if maaseh avos siman labanim means anything, then perhaps the horrible widespread poverty in Lakewood (and Bnei Brak) should be considered a huge chillul Hashem? Does the Torah ask the tzibbur to be poor nebechs? Is your impression of the tannaim, of the geonim, the rishonim, and achronim one of horrible poverty? one of כל שאינו מלמד את בנו אומנות מלמדו ליסטות? Did the chaveirim of the great Ramban only sit and learn? Did R’ Akiva Eiger tell bnei iro that they should do nothing but learn in poverty? I don’t understand Joseph’s comments at all. The current situation appears to be a tremendous chillul Hashem on a grand scale, in a sense worse than anything we’ve ever seen.
If instead you showed me a responsible, thoughtful community in which hardworking, dedicated people worked to earn a livelihood yet were kove’ah itim latorah, who are as careful about every siman in choshen mishpat as in yoreh deah and orach chayim, who are mokir talmidei chachamim, a community that genuinely cared about Torah and didn’t just shove every bachur into the beis medrash and hope for the best. Then I’d say, wow, that is a community that makes us proud.