Hawaii has nation's highest rate of chronic homelessness: Report
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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This is so frustrating! Our government is letting rich outsiders move to Hawaii and price us out! They need to stop letting these foreigners buy Hawaii and put locals first. Hawaii is losing its Aloha because locals are leaving or becoming homeless. Upsetting.
my rent has gone up twice since biden. My kids are moving off island cuz they can’t afford it here either. This is breaking my heart. I will not get to see my grandkids grow up where I grew up! we’re getting priced out you’re absolutely right!
Absolutely! Exactly! When I go anywhere in Hawaii I feel like the minority. I see plenty tourist and Rich people from Asia, Europe, the Continent/mainland. Even Pidgen Language has been dying out. Hawaiian Lang. Schools are gaining popularity though. All da Haole's stay in all our Valleys. 😢 A house built in the 50's same block as Public Housing goes for 1.5 million in Hawaii. I notice forieniers are purchasing Houses even in really bad areas. Wherever they can grab land they are. I hate to say this but Hawaii is not Hawaii anymore. Not much Hawaiians left just all these greedy transplants 🤑
Also no respect for our Culture or the Iwi
I am a haole who lived in HI in the 90's and I agree with you. I loved the Hawaiians and they were good to me. I still hope you are given lands just for you guy's, under American protection, we owe it to the wonderful Hawaiian people. Aloha !
@@noninoni454 - I agree with you. So sad and many of these outsiders have no respect from the locals. They seem to throw in our face how Native Hawaiians "gave" Hawaii away to The United States Government, when the truth is that it was flat out stolen, yet they brag about it. Such a shame. I think in the end, they will get their karma, and the Native Hawaiians will somehow get their stolen land back.
unfortunately this is America and that is not possible.
😅😢 Im a local person that was homeless for 3 yrs with kids here in Hawaii. I lived in many of the homeless programs. At the time Micronesian families were the priority of these programs. I am part Hawaiian. I was a sober person not an addict in college and working part time. I never got any housing assistance. And when I found my own place which was a studio for $700 IHS the program I was living in at the time refused to help me with Deposit and First Months rent saying its because I didnt make enough money which proves I could not sustain myself. I got help from my chucrch instead. I maintained paying rent in that same apartment for 10 yrs straight. When it comes down to it the funding that Homeless Programs get is often and commonly embezzled by the Staff. The people working at most sheltors are from the Mainland or Samoa and believe me the cold hearted corruption that happens is insane! Its similar to Prison corruption.
Your 100% on the topic.
Agree agree agree prayers for all
You’re so correct. I don’t give to shelters. I was homeless during Covid. I was in Next Step. The staff there were lazy. Churches donate food, clothing, etc…, the staff was taking it home. We got expired food. I would go out to eat. Place was loaded with bedbugs. I walked out.
@@thaimassage23 yes unfortunately when ya know ya know. Compassion is key if you work with these populations
@@billarnold9558 Mahalo for your kind words for all! 💗 Yes I agree prayers for all
Why not invite China to visit?
It worked well for San Francisco.
Great comment 👍
They might like it _very_ much, like Fiji and Solomon Islands.
The real problem is our housing cost/rent is out of control. They need to ban foreign investors and house flipping. There is other reasons too but too much to list
Corrupted officials at its best.
Well yeah all these rich people bringing the prices of everything up and then the locals can’t afford to live there anymore
Rent in Hawaii is outrageous and government does nothing to improve the cituation. They always promise to build affordable housing before they are elected but after they get elected they do nothing and they get reelected.
Then you should have voted republican.
@@kawikadee9670lmmfao
@@kawikadee9670 I have never voted for a Democrat. I did not want Biden to get elected. I tried to tell people we would be in trouble with Biden and stubborn democrats did not want to hear it. I did not vote for gov Green.
I was homeless in HI when I was in my 20's. It was not to bad, slept in my truck near the ocean and had first pick of waves every morning. Beats the hell out of being homeless in Portland.
You don’t count then.
@@adambell5399dumb
Sleeping in a truck is not the same as being homeless
@@pineapplegamer6986many of the people who are homeless have cars as well. Every homeless encampment I’ve seen has people living in them coming and going.
What you do in Portland? Smoke meth!?😂
California 2.0
People are homeless for a variety of reasons:
A. Alcoholics.
B. Drug users.
C. Mental health state they are in.
D. But lately, the BIGGEST reason is the astronomical high cost of housing!!
E. In 1993 N.A.F.T.A ( North American Free Trade Agreement ), was signed in law.
Basically what happened is millions of good paying jobs were outsourced to other countries!!
E. Government spending overseas instead of jobs
F. Shutting down jobs like that pipeline.
Tell government to stop printing trillions of dollars out of thin air and sending it to Ukraine
@@vectorphoenix5992
You're right!!
Lots of mental illness I have seen came from the bad drugs they took.
Well yea, you burnt the island.
Exactly the reason!!
Who's you?
Bidenomics is working folks. 😂😂😂
Sure, never have to worry about cold weather
You can not solve these issues by throwing more money at the problem. Handouts don't work!
How else am I going to subsidize my income? By not suppressing the underclass - thus ensuring future revenue without ever having to commit to the farce of opening a customer service desk?
What handouts? Section 8 paying $100 big bucks what?
This is why we need to send more money to Ukraine!!!
😂 Biden signs a bill for more Ukraine aid amid the homeless crisis in Hawaii.
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ukraine is a useless war
@@palestinabaddiewhere is Palestine? What are its geographical borders? When did Palestine become a nation? Who was the first king or president of Palestine? What city is the capital of Palestine and when was it designated as capital? We the people of the world would like to know
@@yehimstone5492 seemed like everyone lived in peace in British controlled Palestine prior to the Europeans moving in and taken ing the land from the Arab Semitic peoples called Palestinians.
It’s only going to get worse not better.
That's why it's critical to adopt the Bitcoin standard to free yourself from the falling value of Fiat currencies that governments can just print more of.
The warmer rhe climate, the higher the homeless. Survival 101.
@PatricKelly-xb2ir then we need to start sending them there....
THIS is an example of Hawaii’s elected officials earning their SIXTY FOUR PERCENT PAY INCREASE
…or not.🤨
Democrats
Hawaii is the most comfortable place to be homeless. When I lived there in the 1970's, I noticed that it was a great place to sleep outside even in the winter.
If im homeless i will go to Hawaii 😂
I agree 💯👍
If you go there you can't leave. If you ever feel like returning to the mainland it will be very hard. Hawaii just doesn't have the resources like mainland US
@@BassNotes_B-Radpoliticians sucking up all the money
They will send you to a place where it's even hotter and with more food to hunt, Africa.
@Wisdom24-7 I did from December 2013 until May 2014. So been 10 years nows. I will say it's something that's easier to tolerate. However it's NOT something to jump up and down all happy about.
Simple facts: Hawaii has a high cost of living and the climate is conducive to comfortable year round camping = TADA! Homelessness!!!
Legislators comfortable and making great money with huge pay raises why bother with constituents humbug
There's no homelessness in Singapore.
What party runs Hawaii? See the patterns here?
Yes, kindness, compassion, and consideration of those less fortunate are more prevalent in states run by Democrats as opposed to the draconian policies of governors in Republican-controlled states. Caring about money more than people is a losing proposition. Republicans turn a blind eye and try to pawn off the problem to the churches. Unfortunately, many of today's churches seem to have forgotten the message to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
THEY KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT
We're number one!!
I lived in maui in 91 92 and there was one homeless that got jbs doin yard work and lahaina restaurants would donate leftovers to people in need. What the hell happened . When i grew in sacramento 70s our subburb had 1 homeless man dressed in a suit and a hat and never saw him beg 1 time. NOW... sheesh
You want to fix the homeless problem you first have to go hard on getting rid of drugs. Not all homeless is from drugs but 95% or more of homeless is from drugs.
Yep
The problem is the cost of housing and homeless persons coming to Hawaii from other states.
Governor takes ALL abroad like Biden opens the red sea and invites ALL to enter undocumented.
My friend just came back from Hawaii. She said it was HORRIBLY DIRTY AND FULL OF HOMELESS PEOPLE... YUCK!
Yeah so you and her should never move there because it's bad. Your Skid Row is way cleaner.
So in the last year their numbers skyrocketed. How many are from Maui?
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Democrat run cities and states problem.
Not too worry. Zucjenburg. Building a nuclear shelter for himself. ?????????
Before a certain demographic showed up I'm sure there was no problem with homelessness.
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Yay consistant Liberal states😂😂😂
True, the states with the most homeless are Democratic run.
Start a state mandate to put these homeless people to work, gather them into tent cities 2:05 run by the military
That’s called concentration camps lol
We know Hitler was Linda Ashby's hero from that statement.
Make it illegal to camp on public streets and beaches. Allow only short term camping with state issued permit in designated state and federal parks.
So just house the homeless in jails? That would be crazy expensive.
@@yehimstone5492obviously no real way to enforce that 🙄
That is because other states shipped the homeless to Hawaii... There is a video on RUclips. Its called This country ships their homeless to an island.
That's okay, just let tens of thousands in through the southern border, send Ukraine a few more millions of dollars, raise the cost of the same old dwellings and yeah... it'll be... okay?.
Well…of course the largest number of homeless are living in states with the best weather and welfare benefits. As well as the most lenient for crime.
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I find hard to believe it’s higher than California…
It's not total numbers. It's the population ratio.
@@ZeroSpawnand I think Hawaii is high for population ratio because not as many people in Hawaii are living in cars. If you $3,000 that you can afford to spend on getting a car shipped to Hawaii you're not going to be living in it. California for example you can fall under the radar sleeping in car. Drive around and sleep at different spots every couple of nights in different jurisdiction.
When the weather is mild; homelessness abounds.
They have indestructible jail style bathrooms at every public beach with showers. Camping on the beach is legal. A small hammock and a tarp tarp strung between two trees.... mobile bedroom.
Like Africa.
Appreciate the continued follow up and digital documentation. Numbers are hard to ignore, reality on the streets is hard to turn a blind eye away from.
They all got 700 bucks. What's the problem?
Hey Ucrane... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
democrat run blue state
Stop raising prices everywhere on rent etc…
Government printing trillions of dollars out of thin air makes each dollar worth less and causes price inflation. Break the Fiat currency induced financial slavery by adopting the Bitcoin standard.
Realtors drilled Hawaiians after the pandemic and they did it on everyones face, triple them rents was very profitable for them
Vote blue till you're homeless
Even if you don't vote for them, they find a way in.
@@pinoygal6232great and accurate comment.🙏
Vote republican and you would see the druggies and homeless working.
How much homeless people actually work? Seriously thinking it's a lack of funding? I really think it's drugs & laziness
A great start is to increase EBT equal to inflation which is 40%
Gee, seems like Oprah should open a homeless shelter with her HUNDREDS of acres and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars.
Just a thought.
These people need to take a road trip to mainland. I certainly dont feel that they are the highest .
Thats not to say it isnt a huge problem like all Democrat states, its horrible
Where do you think an extra 8 million people are suppose to live if they move here illegally and have nothing .
I think i could of used that 100 billion to Ukraine and 100 billion to Israel differently.
It’s per capita, not by overall numbers.
Montana has plenty of room....
@marktwaine9344 texas thought the upper class living on Martha's vinyard had enough space, money and empathy for a few dozen immigrants. I guess not.🤷
Don't let this stop the flow of money to Zelensky 😂
No one can say Biden didn't do what he said: "Build Back Poorer" He did it.
I blame the likes of Oprah and Crew
"Americans look to the government for solutions to our problems. The fact is the government is the problem". Ronald Reagan.
Getting disabled homeless people off the street could be solved simply by making the asset & savings rules for SSI and SSDI the same. a big problem is the government has to dump the Caste sytem and set pay for SSDI & SSI for all disabled people at the same livable wage. How can a disabled person get off the street collecting SSI when I think SSI pays less than 1 thousand a month and the disabled person is not allowed to save more than 2 thousand dollars? The inequality disabled people face is so unfair through no fault of their own they became disabled. Should it matter if their parents had a good job? a rich disabled person or a disabled person who had one of their parents earn a decent wage will get to forever save all the money they want have all the assets they want and collect SSDI instead of SSI why are one set of disabled people treated better than other disabled people? Its because they were born into parents who had on-the-book jobs and their parents earned money. USA works on a Class system like Indian caste system where people are treated differently by the class they come from. Now disabled Americans from the higher class or caste are set for life when their parents retire or die because they can get a percent of their parents' pay and keep everything they inherit. The lower Caste in USA on SSI cannot keep it or they will lose their SSI pay and med coverage. The upper caste in the disabled in America get Medicare with SSDI the lower Caste get Medicaid. America has a long way to go in equal justice for all. Instead of so much far left worrying about LGBT and everything else everyone does nothing to help the disabled SSDI & SSI must become equal. all disabled Americans deserve to be treated the same under law. As of now we have 2 completely different laws for disabled people depending on what Caste they come from. The first step in homelessness should be equality for the disabled lets give all Disabled Americans enough to live in their own apt food and the right to save money and assets to make their life better . as of now the upper caste disabled already have these rights so let's make disability Equal set pay for SSDI and SSI the same The savings and assets rules and same medical coverage we need to stop treating disabled people different because what caste their parents came from
Affordable housing has been promised for the 3+ decades I've lived in Hawaii. We're still waiting. We get mental health patients from all over, and people who want to live free in paradise by manipulating the medical and benefit systems. Loitering laws are not enforced. And the gov't only throws money aimlessly and moves the homeless from one place to another. Stopping benefits for non residents is one solution. Enforcing laws is another. Keeping illegal drugs illegal is another. I won't hold my breath on rent-housing costs coming down. There are entities like the River of Life Mission that have hubs island wide to help people get back on their feet to be functioning, contributing members of society. Leaving people who have value and potential rott in gutters, out of their minds, on drugs... (even by choice) is NOT compassion. It's enabling. No one should waste away like that. And no one should have the choice to take, destroy, and infringe on those who follow laws, and provide for themselves. It's a moral issue at the root. Something no one should ever depend on corrupt gov't to fix. The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. Sadly, too many have woke to an existence that doesn't know what right is anymore. Genesis to Revelation is a place to start. This is on all of us folks.
Hawaii is very expensive. Food and housing.
RENT! Half of your paycheck for some.
Chronic homelessness is different than being homeless. It means they are on the street because of drug addiction, or mental illness or a disability. Lots of cities in the US have far more people living on the street, Hawaii needs to get treatment for them and not hide them in vacation rentals, hence Josh Greens plan.
Actually it's not specifically drug addiction. Chronic homeless is being homeless for 90 day consecutively so 3 months OR being homeless off and on for a period of time that exceeded 90 days in a period of longer then 180 days. And oftentimes yes drug are involved. However it's not exclusively drug issues in and of itself to be said oh you're chronically homeless. I guess the broadest term we can put is well this person hasn't had a stable place to live and this has been the case for over 6 months now ya they're chronically homeless
@@carlgharis7948 google it carl
Of course we do- thats what everyone has been saying for years!
Now do a survey on how much of the homeless people in Hawaii are locals! The results should explain on why there is so much homeless people in Hawaii.
This has been a problem for years ! My friend a retired Aloha airlines employee told me other states would send their homeless here.
@laughteraddict1003 no it's not states officially it's people with money doing a ( good deed) like for example winter in Chicago somebody with money I'll put this guy on a flight and give him $100 that's my ( good deed) and also flights from Anchorage or many west coast Cities say Los Angeles are less then $300 as so if somebody get a government check or unemployment a flight to Honolulu is affordable
Trillion dollars for Goes 18 SATELLITE to watch Hawaii rot...no money rehab center. GOES 18 SATELLITE DATA missing over LAHINA fire.
Big MAHALO for HNN keeping attention on this sadly growing issue!🤙🏽
Hmmm. I rent a room for $550/month with utils included. I have no debt. My only recurring monthly expenses are the phone bill, car insurance, and my storage locker rent (another $300). I can easily afford to put a full tank of gas in my daily driver each week, which is paid off. I also have two other vehicles that I can keep up with insurance on each. I never cook at home as I can afford to dine out every day. I take a trip off O'ahu maybe twice a year. I'm also able to stash another $2000/month toward retirement or unexpected expenses. These homeless people who I see all over the place made their bed, so let them sleep in it. I'm 51 and doing just fine. I made myself a good bed.
Contrary to popular misunderstanding the majority of homeless
in Hawaii are homegrown people born and raised here!
I wonder why? They are shipped there & you have No Resources. They are Stuck there.
Let Bill Gates design a vaccine for them... that'll fix everything 😅 Then you'll be saying : Where did all of Hawaiis homeless people disappear to ???
That was in poor taste..
another mis-informed boomer, lol.
@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi poor taste probably, truthful? Hell yes.
Your ignorance is showing....
Evil
Has the highest cost of living
Did Gavin newsome write this story
Keep working hard! Israel needs your money!
THANK JOE BIDEN
Build Back Poorer
Go woke go broke or homeless or whatever because y'all keep voting for the woke government! Get what you asked for!!
Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if other states would stop sending their homeless people to Hawaii.
Ive been noticing how many out if state cars that have been on these Oahu roads for the past year and they are not Military People. Honestly Ive been seeing people move here by the boat loads latley. And our people are moving to Texas, Alaska and who knows where else
Oprah rubbing her hands and evil laughing......
I think you havent been to La, Portland or san Fransisco lately
Yipee! Another NUMBER 1 for Hawaii! We lead the NATION in WORST: educational system, cost of living, cost of housing, political corruption, teen pregnancies, utility monopolies. When are you "sheep-le" going to WAKE UP and VOTE the DEMOCRATS out?! Baa-baa! The silence of the lambs!
Most of them come to our state by airplane one way ticket with no money, no plan, no where to live and expect social work to hand out these things to them and they are not even from HAWAII!!!!
Its Because more than half of them was from the Mainland With one tickets 💩🤬
Need to have a Cap on Rental prices! Our minimum wages not adding up to cost of living here. why we gotta continue to work 2+ jobs cant even enjoy what we pay for! I personally know 10 friends and family members who fell homeless this year alone , and they have good jobs these are ppl not associated with the fire except 1.
It’s almost like the fire didn’t happen
This fire could be worst here on after Governor Greens latest message to rental businesses. NO MORE SHORT TERM RENTALS!
It's ok, Maui has 7000 ILLEGAL ones that he can use with his magic wand.
How many people choose to be homeless in Hawaii? Sometimes, if you are healthy, being homeless is an adventure and there can be a sense of freedom to being homeless.
U mean no place to shower use the toilet brush teeth lay down in safety and warmth inside isn’t as good as laying in the gutter? Wow
I am thinking you are not a person that lives in the island? Most of the homeless here live at the beach parks almost all of which have free showers, rest rooms and potable water. Most of the homeless here are drug addicts. @@billarnold9558
Well of course with property prices who can afford to buy house there? It’s only for Rock and Opra
Oprah and rock want you to send them money. 😅
Billionaires buying and stealing ancestral land. What do you expect to happen?.
Like what about low cost housing. Out country sucks
Tell your government to stop printing trillions of dollars out of thin air
@@yehimstone5492 was Trump and he still doesn’t care
I'm homeless in Honolulu, Hi.
Drug addictions is pretty high I take it
Extremely high, the majority of our homeless are addicts which in turn increases our crime here.
Where's the money lovers money?
Cut the funding and honelessness will slowly disappear. Stop giv8jg out free handouts and other incentives for people to be homeless.
US is the specialist to study Homeless, make report and statistic, investigation, stories and interviews (are you really suffering ?). It's like an open air Zoo. Soon they can organise Safari tour and put up signs : Please do not feed the specimens or do not approach too close, they can bite
When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
Alk democratic states
And how many have been shipped to Hawai’i free of charge from the mainland?
Hawaii has the highest homeless count
"TELL US SOMETHING WE DON'T ALREADY KNOW"!!!
No suprise a state probably pretty expensive not connected to the mainland.
I'm moving to Hawaii
glad we left hawaii for japan during covid. the economy here is great for foreigners rn lol
Stop selling one way tickets to Hawaii. That’s the problem with other states sending their homeless to Hawaii. If you’re buying a one way plane ticket here, you need to provide the proper documentation like, military,work hire documents,college, or residency . This will stop a lot of people from coming to Hawaii without any reason.
so you want to create a visa system to visit states?
@@backpackingorbust3875 no, just Hawaii!
@@stevenk5800 😂🤣
@@stevenk5800you can't. That would be like needing a visa to ride greyhound from Dallas to Chicago
Behavioral centers are the cause of this. Anything run by state. County or city.... Is a failure.
THAT'S B'CUZ THE WEATHERS SO NICE AND THE DOPE IS GOOD HERE IN THE ISLANDS!!!😂🤙
Homelessness caused by allowing deadly fire to occur and government agencies lack of response. Vote out those politicians who did this to you.
You still think Voting Matters?? Wake Up it's been rigged for years. Politicians (Federal, State and Local) are Selected Not Elected!!!
The HUD values are inaccurate. Hawaii does not have the highest rate. It’s been shown that Los Angeles miscounts, and does not account for most of their homeless, same as New York Chicago, Michigan, etc. for example, it was just recently shown in Los Angeles, that their system is broken for finding availability of rooms. they don’t know who is where and CA is not properly tracking incoming homeless from neighboring regions. .
It’s per capita, I’m sure California has way more than Hawaii
Roflmao. Bullshit
Yes. I live in santa cruz...even down in carmel their is a group of 25 local van lifers year round. CARMEL !
The California homeless numbers are WAY beyond goverment statistics...more than likely double their numbers.
@@danielbrown7535 At this point it’s become a massive business. Either through NGO, 501c shenanigans. I used to volunteer at one of these and it was insane the power structure that exists. Sad.