Hawaii Has The Worst Homeless Problem In America

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    I was shocked walking the streets of Hawaii. For the first time ever, Hawaii now has more homeless people than anywhere else in the USA.
    In this video I investigated the homeless problem on all four Hawaiian islands.
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  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  Місяць тому +61

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    • @PlayThroughTheGame
      @PlayThroughTheGame Місяць тому +4

      being homeless in hawaii may be the best place to live.

    • @rogerburn5132
      @rogerburn5132 Місяць тому +7

      So Many Homeless it's shame Jo Biden Ukraine first 😢😢😢

    • @ArtIsDrawing
      @ArtIsDrawing Місяць тому +3

      When retired people want to work because of boredom, their benefits get cut off!!! This is why they become homeless!!

    • @ArtIsDrawing
      @ArtIsDrawing Місяць тому +2

      Other people work for their housing!!

    • @legendaryTMNICO
      @legendaryTMNICO Місяць тому

      @@rogerburn5132let’s go Brandon

  • @williamwalters9403
    @williamwalters9403 Місяць тому +650

    What really upsets me is we can send a hundred billion dollars over seas, but we have homeless vets here!

    • @Annedashi
      @Annedashi Місяць тому +19

      Exactly

    • @sandraworthington7743
      @sandraworthington7743 Місяць тому +16

      I know it sicking me to

    • @flanagamer
      @flanagamer Місяць тому +40

      I’m an honorably discharged veteran with _TWO_ bachelor’s degrees, and I’m currently living in my car because I can’t afford rent. Seriously. I’m currently trying to move to a new state, but moving is expensive these days, and a hassle. So just trying to save up money as fast as possible. I tried to get a HUD-VASH voucher (essentially subsidizes a veteran’s rent) but there’s a waiting list. Even veterans who don’t do drugs and work/pay taxes get screwed in this country. 😅

    • @ArtIsDrawing
      @ArtIsDrawing Місяць тому +6

      @@flanagamer Sell everything and just bring a backpack with clothes and your laptop!

    • @flanagamer
      @flanagamer Місяць тому +8

      @@ArtIsDrawing but I need my car. I don’t have anything else _to_ sell 🤷🏻‍♂️😅

  • @sapphirelane1714
    @sapphirelane1714 Місяць тому +133

    Really can’t watch this stuff without tearing up. It feels so hopeless, wish we’d do more as a country! Praying for all the homeless.🕊️

    • @anitamendez116
      @anitamendez116 Місяць тому +2

      “The Country” ( I am assuming you are referring to the United States) needs to stop Illegally Occupying Hawaii. That is why Hawaii (mostly Oahu and Maui) is corrupt, polluted and over priced. I was born and raised in Honolulu and NONE of those buildings existed accept the Moana Hotel and The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Waikiki was all local homes until the early 60’s when the colonist started building all those high rises.

  • @bigteezeofficial
    @bigteezeofficial Місяць тому +65

    Hawaii is my home and this breaks my heart. I currently live in St. George, Utah for the past 5 years caring for my elderly mom and finally went back home to Hawaii last month for a visit after 5 years of being away and it literally brought me to tears. Thank you for exposing the TRUE Hawaii and what our people are going through.

    • @evelynantonio4462
      @evelynantonio4462 24 дні тому +1

      It made me emotional sharing your story

    • @24bree24
      @24bree24 23 дні тому +5

      It’s absolutely sickening to see how developed Oahu has gotten. The amount of houses being built is disgusting. Taking agricultural land and making houses is atrocious. All because of greed.

    • @iCloudTempFiles-mf3xz
      @iCloudTempFiles-mf3xz 20 днів тому +1

      Drugs, Alcohol and Addictions! Bad Choices were made. We gotta stop enabling these habits

  • @PuertoRicoBoxing
    @PuertoRicoBoxing Місяць тому +106

    That lady in the beginning of the video.. broke my heart man.

    • @hpcam1
      @hpcam1 Місяць тому +11

      very sad..

    • @mitchellsantiago2164
      @mitchellsantiago2164 Місяць тому +2

      There are plenty of services and housing for them but they just like the freedom of the streets and hate to follow rules and regulations at homeless housing for them. The legislature throws gobs of money at this situation with no end results.

    • @pienash6187
      @pienash6187 Місяць тому +1

      I love 💕 Joanna...she loves her place inspite of it all😊

    • @carlgharis7948
      @carlgharis7948 18 днів тому +1

      ​@@hpcam1ya sad that lady barely had the ware withal to realize it was Thursday

    • @carlgharis7948
      @carlgharis7948 18 днів тому

      ​@hpcam1 I mean it should be apparent she's not mentally thier. So drugs might or might not be a factor however she obviously is mentally off

  • @Kat-tr2ig
    @Kat-tr2ig Місяць тому +126

    The housing crisis is getting worse. 10 years ago people couldn't afford to buy a house. Now they can't afford to rent. Unless something is done now, we're all just one unfortunate circumstance from becoming homeless, too.

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому +8

      😢 Clean it up hawaii, You have the money to do it. Help these people to get off drugs. Every city can make small little apartments for these people they live in a tent. They could live in a 10 / 10. Place.

    • @Unit8200-rl8ev
      @Unit8200-rl8ev Місяць тому

      Capitalism creates poverty.

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 Місяць тому +16

      They keep voting for the same government policies that created these problems.

    • @benjammin4247
      @benjammin4247 Місяць тому +8

      @@tripplefives1402 Or the people at the helm of those policies keep cheating their way in.

    • @Cabbage-gt2su
      @Cabbage-gt2su Місяць тому +1

      @@tripplefives1402If you judge people based off the actions the people they vote for do. I got bad news for you about American geopolitics lol

  • @tedmerr
    @tedmerr Місяць тому +93

    you can thank groups like Air BnB for contributing to skyrocketing housing costs.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +12

      Yes and “house flippers” & the “state” for allowing all these “move to Hawai’i”, “come flip houses in Hawai’i” type shows on HGTV to film here & promote that people do these things that lead to our housing crisis.
      Have you seen all the Airbnb owners complaining and even lying on social media because Hawai’i is trying to limit Airbnb’s?

    • @rhipotter6191
      @rhipotter6191 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdomfacts !!

    • @jerryangton408
      @jerryangton408 Місяць тому +5

      you can also thank the goverment and the states for going on a dam credit score even if you have a job pay rent if that score is low you are fucked

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому

      @@jerryangton408
      A lot of jobs check credit scores too now, and won’t hire people with bad credit scores because they believe it’s an indication of a person not being responsible.

    • @main2333
      @main2333 Місяць тому +2

      Plenty to go around. They just want to build more affordable homes. So they can have a reason to raise rent. Rigged Supply and demand BS!

  • @josechino4704
    @josechino4704 Місяць тому +92

    The man you interview on beach living 2 years seems,Like a good person and is not high on drug.God bless him.

    • @sashanealand8315
      @sashanealand8315 Місяць тому +2

      yeah except he didnt want to help himself

    • @jstme7802
      @jstme7802 Місяць тому +6

      Lmfao! Seems you're not so bright on the homeless people here in my State. Majority of them are from other States that sends them here (free) bcoz the State that they come from says it warmer here, smfh. As as for our own homeless people, they aren't homeless but rather they our houseless. Cost of living here are very high and our people are forced to live on the beach or move to the mainland. So b4 you post things on social media do your homework and make sure you get your story right.

    • @tedzehnder961
      @tedzehnder961 21 день тому

      Yeah, he`s a lazy beach bum.

    • @MarkGelderland
      @MarkGelderland 18 днів тому +3

      @@sashanealand8315 Help himself? He's living at the beach, well fed, no reponsibilities; some might even be jealous of him 😁.

    • @amakuaole
      @amakuaole 13 днів тому +1

      Yeah Hawaii has a lot of "ARROGANT UNWANTED TRANSPLANTS!!!"

  • @SqueakyWheelMakesNoise
    @SqueakyWheelMakesNoise Місяць тому +169

    I used to be homeless and i don't think it should be a crime to sleep on public land. But when i was homeless i didn't have a tent. I found shelter whenever needed and had only what i could carry with me in one go when traveling around. If i couldn't fit it in my backpacks then i didn't keep it. To think all the money given to Ukraine could have been used to build housing for every homeless person in America. Face it people, if government wanted to fix the homeless problems they would. Its a choice at this point the government is doing.

    • @legendaryTMNICO
      @legendaryTMNICO Місяць тому +6

      That’s almost as bad as Vancouver

    • @RVCM71
      @RVCM71 Місяць тому +4

      The problem is they they want to work just want a handout nobody deserves a free house and worst Noone is gonna hand out free houses are you dreaming

    • @elenagava4660
      @elenagava4660 Місяць тому +1

      @@RVCM71 correct if they work for it

    • @whistlerobinshouseandhobbies
      @whistlerobinshouseandhobbies Місяць тому +1

      💖

    • @CheerstoLife01
      @CheerstoLife01 Місяць тому +7

      I don’t blame the homeless to the government. People has a choice, it’s up to us if we are choosing to be homeless or we gonna get find a job. Most of the homeless is a drug addicted. We need to choose wisely in life. Do not blame to someone else that we are the one who choose that life. That’s why we have the brain. Choices is our responsibility.

  • @jamesgorrell1899
    @jamesgorrell1899 Місяць тому +275

    Oprah Winfrey can't see it from her property

    • @QueenB572
      @QueenB572 Місяць тому +48

      She’s in Maui far away from this! The rich get richer and the poor poorer!

    • @Unit8200-rl8ev
      @Unit8200-rl8ev Місяць тому +1

      Wealth for a few creates poverty for the many. This is the Triumph of Capitalism.

    • @slee2819
      @slee2819 Місяць тому +6

      I’m glad to hear that. She deserves the world for her service to humanity.
      I hope Obama is OK…

    • @BobbyPolfus
      @BobbyPolfus Місяць тому +10

      ​@@slee2819I'm sure he's thinking of you. At gitmo

    • @QueenB572
      @QueenB572 Місяць тому +14

      @@slee2819 I think you need to do some deep diving into what Winfrey and Obama are about!

  • @hannw7
    @hannw7 Місяць тому +31

    What's really sad is that the mentally ill get hooked on drugs to cope and drugs can cause mental illness. Such a vicious cycle. America needs to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and addiction. So much suffering.

  • @TannerBelanger-wy8yp
    @TannerBelanger-wy8yp 27 днів тому +140

    *🌹I was homeless, got into drug's went to prison came out and Heaven came through for me in my finances making $50,000 in 2months in forex bought my first house last week and I'm can't be more proud that I'm right now, God is absolutely done more than enough*

    • @BrendaWong-yr2tf
      @BrendaWong-yr2tf 27 днів тому +2

      Congratulations you are really doing well at your age im 45 and my finance are in rally in mess right now and great tip will really go along way in shaping my life im open for idea

    • @PamelaArmstrong-zc4ik
      @PamelaArmstrong-zc4ik 27 днів тому +2

      I work at a restaurant here in Houston Texas. Things have been really difficult as I'm a single mom and trying my best to pay bills and take care of my daughters.

    • @TannerBelanger-wy8yp
      @TannerBelanger-wy8yp 27 днів тому

      I started pretty low investing in forex though with $2000 thereabouts. The returns came massive. Joey is in school doing well, telling me of new friends he's meeting in school. Ava Brenda Harry is a Blessing to my life

    • @PatrickWilkinson-he9iu
      @PatrickWilkinson-he9iu 27 днів тому

      Wow 😲I know this lady mentioned here . She's really good with and on her job. She's helped a couple of families and individuals' finances

    • @MildredChen-wx1wy
      @MildredChen-wx1wy 27 днів тому

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  • @marioahu5000
    @marioahu5000 Місяць тому +65

    I have lived here for 60 years...they just approved building over 350 condos on Turtle Bay. The investors are out of State. Hawaii residents will have to foot the bill for roads, water, etc. The investors will make millions while our ocean water get polluted. They need to charge all out of State investors a fee to build public housing. Every time someone wants to develop unaffordable housing units for the rich, they need to build public housing for our people who can't afford to house themselves. It doesn't have to be super nice, building with restrooms and laundry and enough to survive. If they want to move out after getting on their feet that's better. Thanks for this videa... it's real.

  • @imustbecrazy5626
    @imustbecrazy5626 Місяць тому +185

    Flip it and see how bad homeowners have it.
    Just because you live behind 4 walls don't mean you're not in a bad situation.

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому +48

      So true the government has made it so hard for all of us. Everyone.
      Clear your head and vote for Trump.

    • @georgehenderson7783
      @georgehenderson7783 Місяць тому +1

      @@cindylopez5599 The Democrats, if they don't declare a national emergency and cancel the election, are going to cheat massively, they will allow illegals to vote in a federal election with "federal ballots." Vote early, in person if possible and BRING AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE WITH YOU TO VOTE!

    • @debaucherizer
      @debaucherizer Місяць тому +1

      @@cindylopez5599 2 sides of the same coin, biden trump

    • @freshtapcoke
      @freshtapcoke Місяць тому +15

      Funny how government never has it bad

    • @mattpinap
      @mattpinap Місяць тому +7

      ​@@cindylopez5599You say that but guess what most of themm all had in common? They moved to Hawaii 6-8 years ago...

  • @raymonddon8875
    @raymonddon8875 Місяць тому +69

    growing up in california and watching tv shows filmed in hawaii... we only saw paradise. me and my friends never knew hawaii even had a homeless problem.

    • @justacutepieceofshit
      @justacutepieceofshit 28 днів тому

      There is still plenty of paradise here❤

    • @highclassbum2538
      @highclassbum2538 24 дні тому +3

      Worst in America. Even worse going out toward Makaha and Waianae

    • @evelynantonio4462
      @evelynantonio4462 23 дні тому +2

      I admire Magnum PI filmed in Hawaii, the state looks very clean & captivating , that was long time ago , now it seems it is mostly ruined

  • @busterhoodstar6598
    @busterhoodstar6598 Місяць тому +26

    Los Angeles begs to differ. Seattle begs to differ. Chicago begs to differ. Hawaii doesn't come close.

  • @greendesertgoddess
    @greendesertgoddess Місяць тому +100

    How do you know drugs is the main reason for homelessness? Drugs certainly wasn't my reason for being homeless . . .

    • @optimusP43
      @optimusP43 Місяць тому +21

      No not all homelessness is due to drugs, but majority is and if you go and talk to the homeless people like he did, you can clearly see that meth is the cause. Are there other drugs? Sure but very rare. Meth is everywhere in Hawaii and it does destroy lives. Add that to milk being $9-11 a gallon and rent being $1,800 for a studio apartment with jobs only paying $18hr. I am from a state that has the most rehabs in the country, Hawaii doesn't have that in comparison.

    • @greendesertgoddess
      @greendesertgoddess Місяць тому +1

      @@optimusP43 . . . them perhaps the interviewer should not search out addicts for comments. Go seek out regular folks homeless due to no fault of their own. it was clearly stated "drugs is the main reason for homelessness." Sounds like a blanket statement to me. People will simply run with it . . . and it's a LIE!

    • @TheBradfords
      @TheBradfords Місяць тому +4

      They might of not went homeless due to drugs but almost all turn to them

    • @secondone6833
      @secondone6833 Місяць тому +1

      Me either mine was because a con man took mine and my lawyer sucked

    • @secondone6833
      @secondone6833 Місяць тому +1

      And cancer

  • @nicolehall2177
    @nicolehall2177 Місяць тому +24

    Only you would find a rubber chicken door bell 😂😂😂

  • @kathyred3310
    @kathyred3310 Місяць тому +209

    It’s sickening how we destroyed a beautiful place, it does look like LA

    • @pollyanna147
      @pollyanna147 Місяць тому +3

      @@toddrodeo1349 what state are you from? not asking aggressively and not a democrat

    • @mattpinap
      @mattpinap Місяць тому +9

      ​@toddrodeo1349 it's beyond that. American infrastructure is disgusting at best. I bet Hawaii was a beautiful place and look at it. I mean sure it has roads and supermarkets but man.. at what cost? You hear stories of the waters back in the day around Hawaii and Australia. Teeming with fish as far as the eye can see even up to the coastline. Now you'll see those buildings from any mountain. One could guess the highest building is the tallest point in Hawaii.

    • @jjman533
      @jjman533 Місяць тому +1

      Democrats have a monopoly on Homelessness and Lawlessness. San Fran, Seattle, Portland, D.C., Chicago, Los Ang, NYC. Hawaiians should STOP complaining about the homeless. You don't have millions of illegals that would increase your homeless population, increase crime, and suck up resources. Even Democrat controlled cities in red states like Texas are trash like Austin, Dallas, San Ant, Ft Worth, and Houston.

    • @ArtIsDrawing
      @ArtIsDrawing Місяць тому

      A certain group =

    • @kathyred3310
      @kathyred3310 Місяць тому +3

      @@toddrodeo1349 your point?

  • @karendavis1857
    @karendavis1857 28 днів тому +9

    I feel so sad for My Native Wānāu of Hawaiki.. I am a Native of Aotearoa and to see what those Colonizers have done to Beautiful Hawaiki island and our brothers and sisters of their lands is very heartbreaking ❤
    Ka mamae to ngakau - We share your Heart ache,
    Ka mamae to mamae - We Share your pain,
    Ko koe ko au ko koe - You are me I am you,
    Kotahi Tatou - We are One..
    Tu Kaha O Tatou Tuahine Ataahua - Stand Strong Our Sister's and Brothers ❤

  • @edwolf9433
    @edwolf9433 Місяць тому +13

    Thanks for exposing this, our local government won’t acknowledge this.

  • @ShellyJellyUpYours007
    @ShellyJellyUpYours007 Місяць тому +65

    It's so SAD to see the broken spirits of human life ! how shocking the homeless problem is all over America USA! I guess if I'm gunna think of something good to say is, is when I use to be homeless for 2yrs I stayed in a camp that looked after each other, and if you were elderly then in the camp people would take turns helping them by sharing there there food with them, helping them wash clothes and sharing there tents, you really have to help out in a camp to get into one that's not gunna steal you'd last roll of Tp. Thank u Nick for traveling all over and taking me along with u with theae videos!! Haha. BTW I'm from San Antonio ,Texas come back and see us again one day. Michelle

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому +1

      Look what happened to Maui. It seems like no one cares. Biden
      Absolutely does not care at all.

    • @chicogozosodecabellosedoso
      @chicogozosodecabellosedoso Місяць тому +5

      What did you do to stop being homeless?

    • @nagratna793
      @nagratna793 Місяць тому +1

      Wat about your parents?? Were u alone?

    • @tedzehnder961
      @tedzehnder961 21 день тому +1

      Broken Spirits? Really? I got a job when I was sixteen and worked for the next 45 years. I grew up instead of being a perpetual adolescent.Don`t blame other people for your mistakes.

  • @eustacemcgoodboy9702
    @eustacemcgoodboy9702 Місяць тому +57

    Not sure America can be proud of what they did with the islands they stole from the natives. But this is what America is. This channel shows you what America really is.

    • @Mike-tu7uw
      @Mike-tu7uw Місяць тому

      America didn’t steal anything, a$$hole. It’s was acquired. If the United States hadn’t taken it some other country would have. Seriously, this is 2024, do actually think Hawaiians would be dancing in grass skirts and living as they did in the 18th century still?

    • @David53D
      @David53D Місяць тому +5

      No one stole anything, the land is still there and so called Hawaiian's still occupy it.

    • @DaisyAnnabelle65
      @DaisyAnnabelle65 Місяць тому +4

      It’s despicable!

    • @sashanealand8315
      @sashanealand8315 Місяць тому

      thats not America man, a giod many of the homeless are native hawaiians playing the victim game and living off public assistance

    • @williamwilson6499
      @williamwilson6499 Місяць тому +8

      ​@@David53DYour ignorance can be fixed. Sad that your parents didn't ensure you received an education, but with some effort you can improve.

  • @sinebar
    @sinebar 22 дні тому +5

    The old trope that money can't buy happiness is BS. Money can buy a LOT of happiness. The more money you have the more happiness you can buy.

  • @ArcStormcaller
    @ArcStormcaller Місяць тому +16

    Mental issues + bad quality drugs + drugs + alcohol = non recovery
    I work 2 fulltime jobs and it's really hard

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Місяць тому +5

      Yes and its hard working people that are supporting these junkies

  • @Lopezflies888
    @Lopezflies888 Місяць тому +50

    At 23:22 you are interviewing homeless next to Jack in the Box. On the other side of Jack in the Box is WA Middle school. An open air no security school. There recently was a SA in the outside bathroom. A 8th grader with an ankle bracelet assulted a non verbal 6th GR boy..Mr Harano, The principal asked parents to check phones as the assult was recorded. He gad ZERO interest in letting the public know. Luckily, advocates and whistleblowers did.

    • @techshabby0001
      @techshabby0001 Місяць тому +1

      What do you men open air? They have classrooms.

    • @williamhiles7404
      @williamhiles7404 Місяць тому

      And what does that have to with homelessness?
      LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

  • @Britcarjunkie
    @Britcarjunkie Місяць тому +33

    The man that's been living on the beach for 2 years: he was talking about Micronesians that had to be relocated as the result of the atomic bomb tests in the '50's and '60's.
    There's one island where we built a concrete dome over ground zero, but its leaking radiation, so the island isn't habitable anymore.

  • @X19Rocket
    @X19Rocket Місяць тому +7

    Our problem is estimated 20,000 families have more money than the bottom half combined, That's the problem with the country.

  • @pollyanna147
    @pollyanna147 Місяць тому +91

    This is an EVERYWHERE problem.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +18

      But “everywhere” doesn’t have US states sending their homeless there on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate their own homeless problem, Hawai’i DOES.

    • @F-U-CKYTCensorship
      @F-U-CKYTCensorship Місяць тому

      @@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom🤣 nobody “sends” homeless people anywhere except to the liberal cities here in the mainland being overrun by illegals that crossed the Mexican border.. Hawaii is not full of Mexicans is it? Nope. It’s full of your own people that you created to be homeless due to political and economic greed. No state has property values and rent like your state, California and Illinois might be a close 2nd but look at their homeless population numbers. Then lookup the number of homeless drug addicts in those states, your state has an abundance of drug users and it always has. We’ve all seen DOG the bounty hunter..

    • @e2dwf976
      @e2dwf976 27 днів тому

      And keep rising up tax not making any sense. Crackhead and the rooster Got me 😂😂 nice Nick!
      Most of homeless in Honolulu area are not locals Send them back where they came from keep sending them homeless to Hawaii

    • @TheRedFist92
      @TheRedFist92 21 день тому +2

      Your clueless. You guys in the mainland send your homeless here...
      Get the picture??

    • @RundbarkKonark
      @RundbarkKonark 3 дні тому

      Nope America

  • @user-fv5ms4sz8e
    @user-fv5ms4sz8e Місяць тому +154

    What's really bad about poverty in Hawaii, is there's no way to leave. You don't go away to better employment opportunities. Things are so expensive, that I wouldn't doubt that regularly employed people are visiting food banks and a bunch of them are on some kind of government assistance.

    • @robotekusa
      @robotekusa Місяць тому +17

      I think there is a program to fly em to California for free. Not joking.

    • @keonesilva3646
      @keonesilva3646 Місяць тому +19

      And why would anyone want to go to that dump ? ​@@robotekusa

    • @jeffjeff4477
      @jeffjeff4477 Місяць тому +6

      ​@@robotekusaThat would make sense, the locals need to get em off the island, it an an island!!!!. The mainland has or at least had programs for homelessness until uh 10 million or so came to visit

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому +1

      They need to stop voting for democrats. They have been voting for them.Way too long look at what happened to maui.

    • @user-eq6iy4nw8o
      @user-eq6iy4nw8o Місяць тому +13

      let's be realistic for a moment, majority of the homeless population in hawaii don't want to work, are hooked on drugs or alcohol & they don't want to follow rules, yes it's expensive but they don't want to work already. i been homeless here and your life is what we make it

  • @SolitaryCroneWiccan
    @SolitaryCroneWiccan Місяць тому +5

    I moved to Hawaii in 1974 after my military service to the Big Island, Hilo to be specific. I never had a housing problem, as I worked for the State of Hawaii. There was no homelessness, as everyone had jobs. Then, all of a sudden, the drug "ice" made it's debut in the Islands (about 1984) and everything changed. I interviewed for a position at ARCO corporation in LA, and was hired for immediate hire, & left Hawaii in 1986 (after Tina Turner's last U.S. show). THERE WAS NO HOMELESS ISSUES THEN.
    It breaks my heart 😢 to see Hawaii now, with the homeless population sooooo huge. NMRK NMRK NMRK🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

  • @oesso
    @oesso Місяць тому +15

    We're the fools apparently. These homeless people have a 1 million dollar view of the ocean wild we are paying thousands to be stuck in a box viewing four walls all day. I'm confused now lol.

  • @joepacheco7979
    @joepacheco7979 Місяць тому +38

    Drug use and insanity. When I was a kid (in the 60/70’s) the island (Oahu) had maybe a handful of "hobos" and they were kinda known, and you just stayed away. Now…

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому

      Hawaii stop voting for democrats. If something bad happens do you think they'll give you seven hundred dollars. Then, say be on your way and be happy.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +2

      Well in the 60/70’s states in the US didn’t have programs to send THEIR homeless to Hawai’i on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate THEIR homeless problem, sooo there’s that.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 Місяць тому +1

      Yep I was a kid on Oahu the same time, there were very very few.

    • @vickiladu6755
      @vickiladu6755 Місяць тому +1

      Yeah, a handful of "hobos" when I was in Oahu in 1972. Went to 3 islands and never saw a homeless person or tent back then. So sad now 😢

    • @movieman7188
      @movieman7188 28 днів тому +1

      What’s the deal with the rise in insanity here? My friends and I just call them Island Crazies. So many people walking around talking or yelling to themselves. It has really increased over the past 20 years. Is there something in the water or is there some new drug that’s driving people mad?

  • @user-tx3zg3rz5v
    @user-tx3zg3rz5v Місяць тому +5

    Not only just in Hawaii but mostly of mainland America

  • @fmcevoy1
    @fmcevoy1 Місяць тому +14

    One advantage in Hawaii is one can't freeze to death.
    Nick, you get points for actually talking to the homeless people. Most play "Ain't It Awful"!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  Місяць тому +2

      Frank! Hope you're well.
      And you're right as always.

  • @joeespo177
    @joeespo177 Місяць тому +56

    It's videos like this that make me appreciate my home in the frost belt. Greetings from Wisconsin.

    • @AlphaFlight
      @AlphaFlight Місяць тому +11

      Not really a brag. Its Wisconsin

    • @joeespo177
      @joeespo177 Місяць тому +3

      @@AlphaFlight says you

    • @OkcBK
      @OkcBK Місяць тому +1

      @@joeespo177and me brah

    • @jeffreybaier5312
      @jeffreybaier5312 Місяць тому +1

      Milwaukee is totally crime riden. Google it.

    • @NewHaven203
      @NewHaven203 Місяць тому +11

      @AlphaFlight At least Wisconsin doesn’t have homeless running around everywhere, it seems like a great state

  • @Gadfly2025
    @Gadfly2025 Місяць тому +29

    Japan has homeless towns all along the river in Tokyo . Many gets pushed out in more rural areas

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +6

      Japan also has a high rate of “self inflicted unlifing” and a culture that shuns and shames people for being homeless as well as a culture of representing your family.

    • @fernandoscrenci4874
      @fernandoscrenci4874 Місяць тому +3

      This is very true!! I see it on another UA-cam channel !!!

    • @Gadfly2025
      @Gadfly2025 День тому

      @@fernandoscrenci4874 I never consider it as homeless . They just have a different idea how they like to live . It’s like permanent camping . No clocks to follow or people pestering or holding you to any schedule or signing papers u have no idea 🤷 what they mandating you to do .

  • @ScorpionVonScotts600
    @ScorpionVonScotts600 Місяць тому +18

    I’ve only watched a third of this episode and I must say that my heart is broken. I lived on Oahu back in the mid to late 80’s. Army Schofield Barracks. It was nothing like this. I’ve always wanted to return for a week or two but this is absolutely disheartening.

  • @ruthdella37
    @ruthdella37 Місяць тому +6

    While I was on Kauai local business owner told me about how CORRUPT the Hawaiian government is. (Robert Kiyosaki has been saying the Hawaiian government has been corrupt since the 1970s). Anyway, they also explained that when Detroit Michigan (MOTOWN) shut down jobs, they gave a one-way ticket to Hawaii to anyone especially the homeless.

  • @3mexhuas
    @3mexhuas Місяць тому +17

    Hey, Nick you're almost at one million subscribers!!!! Great job.

  • @bertvosburg558
    @bertvosburg558 Місяць тому +17

    I guess if you didn't have the money to get off the island you're basically trapped on the tip of a volcano thousands of miles from any substantial land with no way to leave. "HOTEL HAWAII" You can check out any time you want but you can never leave...

    • @sashanealand8315
      @sashanealand8315 Місяць тому +2

      and no jobs for non-natives to get yourself out of it

    • @bertvosburg558
      @bertvosburg558 Місяць тому

      @@sashanealand8315 Never knew about this problem until now.

    • @KDFantastic
      @KDFantastic Місяць тому +1

      You mean check in any time, but you can never check out. Sad state of affairs indeed.

  • @Lopezflies888
    @Lopezflies888 Місяць тому +16

    That burning plastic smell on the beach is Meth.

    • @The716_
      @The716_ Місяць тому +3

      Crack smells like that too.

    • @Lopezflies888
      @Lopezflies888 Місяць тому +3

      @@The716_ True. But Meth is Hawaii's choice.

    • @Angelonwheels24
      @Angelonwheels24 Місяць тому

      Meth doesn't smell like burning plastic meth hardly has an odor I've tried it

  • @VallineSchmidt
    @VallineSchmidt Місяць тому +4

    Uncle with the fishing pole towards the end bought me to tears because this is the reality of my people.

  • @crunchybobjones
    @crunchybobjones Місяць тому +17

    its an election year.. thats why they cleaned it up

  • @Cletus_the_Elder
    @Cletus_the_Elder Місяць тому +5

    People and corporations buying up multiple properties as rental investments or to use as Airbnb rentals is a huge part of the problem. We even let foreigners buy up property without limit.

  • @paulonunes2002
    @paulonunes2002 Місяць тому +17

    Nick, this crazy guy who followed you until he got $5 surpassed all the other homeless people in terms of audacity and madness, he accumulated a real dump of garbage and rubble right on top of the river. I don't understand how a city council can allow someone to do something like this in a canal, a city watercourse, which could cause a blockage and flooding in the event of heavy rain.

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Місяць тому

      Becuse crackheads have more rights than decent upstanding citizens!

    • @tedzehnder961
      @tedzehnder961 21 день тому

      The DEms are in control on Hawaii."Do your own thing" is their mantra.What they should do is give them a bath and pay for a one way ticket anywhere but there.

  • @evilladollyz7602
    @evilladollyz7602 Місяць тому +6

    My best friend moved to Hawaii. She said her rent is quadruple from what she paid here in Missouri. I'm still trying to get her to come back lol

  • @sandraworthington7743
    @sandraworthington7743 Місяць тому +23

    That sweet lady that you interviewed at the beginning bless her I wish her the very best I feel so sorry for those folks nobody should have to live like that breaks my heart

  • @trappedinkalifornee
    @trappedinkalifornee Місяць тому +8

    You can take the people out of the slums BUT …. YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SLUMS OUT OF THE PEOPLE….

  • @patrick03333
    @patrick03333 Місяць тому +8

    Me and my girlfriend work full time and have part time jobs on the side and we still are thinking of leaving g due to the cost of living.

    • @mamadoom9724
      @mamadoom9724 16 днів тому +2

      I stayed in Hawaii (the big island) for a month and couldn’t believe the cost of groceries. That was pre 2020 so I can’t even imagine the grocery prices now. Unless you’re getting food stamps it would be so hard to feed a family over there.

  • @claudiakoprinock1501
    @claudiakoprinock1501 25 днів тому +5

    I left Oahu in 1990. I look back and realized I left before it got bad. I see your video and remember how the view of the beaches was clear and spacious. There was always con artists and trouble but I know it's worse 😮 so sad. The pit of my stomach just hurts so bad. How terrible it has become. Thanks for posting but it's so sad.😢

  • @emmakahoe5233
    @emmakahoe5233 Місяць тому +11

    Aloha, Nick Johnson 🤙🏽
    My comment to you is of pure FRUSTRATION 😡
    I'm born and raised on 'Oahu. I personally have been houseless (Hawai'i is my HOME) twice. Once, in the early '90's by myself and in the early 2000's with my son in a shelter (because I didn't want him to know the streets). Back in those days, the homeless problem wasn't as bad as it is NOW. Which is why I could go into a shelter.
    I've seen & been on BOTH sides. There are different sides to homelessness.
    1) Career homeless-they're the ones who REFUSE to be in society & are CONTENT to stay like that.
    2) Mental issues-they're the ones who either had those issues with NO drug abuse and the ones who got there using & abusing, mostly drugs.
    3) Alcohol &/or Drug Abusers
    4) Families who are in the working class who can't afford to pay rent somewhere &/or can't qualify for places &/or are on LONG wait lists FOR a place.
    5) Elderly
    6) Veterans-between the last two, I'm sure that there are some of them that are just Elderly &/or Veterans 🤔there might even be some who are battling with mental &/or alcohol/drug abuse.
    'Oahu DOES have, NOW a lot more homeless that HAVE BEEN coming there because wherever they're originally from IS giving them a one-way ticket to "paradise" INSTEAD of helping "their own".
    There aren't ENOUGH places on the islands to help the homeless as a WHOLE. THAT requires $, that our State can only give out so much to the different non-profit organizations.
    The "Aloha Spirit" has SERIOUSLY been abused. I believe that the Hawai'i airports should be like France where you ask them "business or pleasure", take down their credentials & "follow up" with them & if their job fell through and/or they're "stuck" they get a one-way ticket back where they came from to get the help they need from "over there."
    When someone becomes homeless, there are "stages" for that. In the beginning, a person who isn't using & abusing... they're all "gung-ho" about NOT staying on the streets that they'll try EVERYTHING to get back to THEIR normal. When THAT "wears off" frustration &/or depression sinks in & they start to "give up" that's where alcohol & drug abuse can & might happen. There are just SO much different things/situations of even WHY people become homeless...but, at the end of the day... they're ALL STILL human beings and you sir, need to be MORE RESPECTFUL when you're filming the homeless while they're in their tents/homes like asking PERMISSION to film them &/or flying your drone 🤔🤨 (I get it, you want to show the public the REAL stuff but, it's just disrespectful when you're PEERING into their personal space like that 😮😡
    The one in Waianae is called (I'm going to phonetically say it)
    Poo-oo Hoh-noo-ah Oh Why-ah-neye.
    Aloha 🌺

    • @nutmeg5
      @nutmeg5 Місяць тому +1

      He DOES ask permission and IS respectful. Why do you say he’s not?

    • @davidmansoor1364
      @davidmansoor1364 Місяць тому +3

      He asks permission after the fact and still puts ppl in the video. Also, the way he talks about ppl is disrespectful. He does this for his channel. This is not some selfless mission. Do not be confused.

  • @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz
    @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz Місяць тому +4

    Most people don't know it, but once you get out of the nice/touristy areas, Hawaii is totally ghetto. Very dangerous too.

  • @rockscrambler6700
    @rockscrambler6700 Місяць тому +26

    I lived in Hawaii in the '70s, it was a much happier place then.

    • @Lopezflies888
      @Lopezflies888 Місяць тому

      @@rockscrambler6700 It was way different even in the 90s!!!!! It's unrecognizable now. No ALOHA. As he said that Aloha thing with driving is b*******. Too many people coming over from the mainland and overseas with their driving habits is my guess. Locals drive crazy too though

  • @chicogozosodecabellosedoso
    @chicogozosodecabellosedoso Місяць тому +54

    The government should have special islands, cities or villages for homeless where they build them small houses and force them to rehab and work or study something. But they need to get them out of public places. They spent massive amounts of $$$ helping Ukraine and supporting other wars around the world but they don't seem to care about these huge problems at home

    • @nasimdanielhaq3639
      @nasimdanielhaq3639 Місяць тому +2

      The only way to solve the drug problem is like they do in Amsterdam or Portugal. That will never happen in America.

    • @COVID-cm4rn
      @COVID-cm4rn Місяць тому +4

      Yeah put them all on Kaho’o’lawe

    • @tomsettles6873
      @tomsettles6873 Місяць тому +1

      You've just become a Republican. Welcome !

    • @deep6301
      @deep6301 Місяць тому +8

      The government needs to stay out of our lives. Freedom.

    • @Heidenheim75
      @Heidenheim75 Місяць тому

      Nobody helps the Ukraine. They just provide weapons, and the US war industry profits. Not a regular person in the Ukraine gets help.

  • @Unit8200-rl8ev
    @Unit8200-rl8ev Місяць тому +60

    You could sober up all the homeless people in the USA, give them all a college education and a degree, and there still wouldn't be enough jobs for them.

    • @rageagainstthemachine7434
      @rageagainstthemachine7434 Місяць тому

      college was a big lie all these years.. been lied to about everything !!!!!!!!

    • @MD-dw5qg
      @MD-dw5qg Місяць тому

      Why do they need a colleges education? Colleges are just a brain washing factory. We need more people learning a trade.
      I received a BA a degree in the late 80’s, and before the brainwashing thank God! However, in retrospect, I wish I had learned a trade instead.

    • @thomasauslander3757
      @thomasauslander3757 Місяць тому +3

      They already have a B.S. in Homelessness...
      They're just out there doing fieldwork..

    • @carieyounginsurance
      @carieyounginsurance Місяць тому +4

      Who says they wouldn’t create jobs? Many cemeteries are filled with individuals who never gave life any effort. There is enough for everyone. There would be enough jobs for everyone as there is now but many just don’t want to learn new skills or give it any effort

    • @moniquesilverans3842
      @moniquesilverans3842 Місяць тому

      @Nothing_means_nuthin Et alors, c'est un travail honnête

  • @hmj1116
    @hmj1116 Місяць тому +4

    I am a Korean War veteran served 1951 to 1953 Decorated with medals including the Ambassador For Peace Medal.

  • @jameshutchins8155
    @jameshutchins8155 Місяць тому +10

    So depressing... but thank you for taking the time and having the courage to dive in deep and speak with the people living on the street. It's something...

  • @UrbanKiwiana
    @UrbanKiwiana Місяць тому +14

    Good morning Nick, that women on the street started talking about her dad having 14 kids and then I was lost in translation lol, sad that people get that far gone that they can't even have a conversation,
    Their just vulnerable as.
    There's some super interesting folk in the homeless scene some are lost but others are so with it and so humble and I really hope they make it.
    Thanks mate

  • @superseries7007
    @superseries7007 Місяць тому +56

    3rd World...

    • @arajoaina
      @arajoaina Місяць тому +8

      No 4 or at least 5th

    • @wanderingwarrior5626
      @wanderingwarrior5626 Місяць тому

      Did you miss NYC Bloomberg telling Americans around 15yrs ago, AMERICA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!
      That was your wake up call. They always tell you way in advance, what they are going to do to their slaves, yes, that's you, before they do it.
      Should have paid attention to what is really going on, huh!

    • @BigJFindAWay
      @BigJFindAWay 26 днів тому

      The United States as a whole is a Second World country.

  • @sunsensational
    @sunsensational Місяць тому +6

    Forced drug rehab/shelter will help.

    • @moniquesilverans3842
      @moniquesilverans3842 Місяць тому +1

      C'est ce qu'ils font dans certains pays arabes et il y a de bons résultats. De plus si l'Etat ne leur verserait plus rien ils seraient obligés de travailler. L'aide fabrique des paresseux

  • @tommybutler2454
    @tommybutler2454 Місяць тому +17

    It's not right. They should help the natives first ALWAYS. We shouldn't even be there. It was stolen from the Hawaiian people. How sad. ❤ 🙏

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +1

      Mahalo for acknowledging that, Tommy. ❤️🤙🏽

    • @sashanealand8315
      @sashanealand8315 Місяць тому +1

      victim hood

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому

      @@sashanealand8315
      Typical settler colonizer mentality, create victims then shame them for what you did to them.

  • @judywilson9003
    @judywilson9003 Місяць тому +25

    Don’t allow anyone to push you into the ground. Push back ten times harder. Stay strong my friends.

  • @katiewillgo
    @katiewillgo Місяць тому +35

    Pray for those beautiful Hawaiians. THE United States stole their country

  • @ausermeg9428
    @ausermeg9428 Місяць тому +33

    Why? We the taxpayers are the ones providing the revenue, why aren't we being taken care of first in a 'crisis' that is devastating our own country. We are providing the equivalent of $100,000 for every illegal migrant flooding across our southern border; free cell phones, free hotel accommodations, free transportation, We live in an upper mid-class town. We have noticed an influx of illegal immigrants in our school district. Lunches are free due to the percentage of low income households now in our district. There's no such thing as a free lunch, who is paying for it? The homeowner taxpayers are. The illegals aren't paying these taxes. It goes way beyond the free lunches, they are getting a free education, increasing classroom sizes, creating demand for more teachers, resources, etc. This all is costing the taxpayer more.

    • @lauraslanesvanlifetravels
      @lauraslanesvanlifetravels Місяць тому

      Indeed....the govt is causing this crisis on purpose to DESTROY the US...and cause that whole "replacement theory" in a more natural looking way, I mean, they can't just kill off all the "whities," in broad daylight now can they...we slaves got it too good and now they want to bring in new slaves on this here plantation/corporation of america...we are about to lose it all and also be killed off....maybe not every last one of us but that civil war is also being created by them...I hope enough people awaken to wtf is going on before that happens!

    • @nutmeg5
      @nutmeg5 Місяць тому

      You live in a fantasy land. So much of what you say is not true

    • @Sammy-il1qf
      @Sammy-il1qf Місяць тому +7

      Illegals lives get better, while Americans' lives decline.
      Makes me so mad.

    • @nutmeg5
      @nutmeg5 Місяць тому +3

      @@Sammy-il1qf it would make me mad too if it were true.

    • @Sammy-il1qf
      @Sammy-il1qf Місяць тому +8

      @nutmeg5 of course it's true... Illegals get free accommodation while Americans are priced out of homes a day forced into homelessness

  • @airflowfpv7791
    @airflowfpv7791 Місяць тому +3

    It's sad to see, literal paradise on Earth in such shape.. I was there in '89 as a child and all I remember is a beautiful paradise with beautiful people and now it all seems like a distant dream that I want to get back to some way, somehow. It feels like a part of me is there... I do love those islands man..

  • @KCFromTheIE
    @KCFromTheIE Місяць тому +54

    You need a plan if you are going to move to the islands! YOU and only YOU should be responsible for YOU!….that’s just life.

    • @milanimorales2645
      @milanimorales2645 Місяць тому +8

      Arent many of the homeless people indigenous to Hawaii? Its giving: They didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on them.

    • @tripplefives1402
      @tripplefives1402 Місяць тому +1

      they aren't homeless because they live on an island, they are homeless because they smoke crack.

    • @Lopezflies888
      @Lopezflies888 Місяць тому +13

      3 jobs and 3 years later, got us out of there! The DOE , the kids learn nothing except how to fight. My child said teachers don't break up fights right away because they like to watch. 😡 Happy and thriving in a GOOD school district in the Pacific NW!!!!!

    • @eriklee1794
      @eriklee1794 Місяць тому +2

      FACT'S

  • @keonesilva3646
    @keonesilva3646 Місяць тому +13

    I live on Big Island for 20 years. Hilo is really bad now. No incentives to get sober or work. You won't freeze or starve here. I own lot and tiny home far from towns in upper Puna and love it. This is mostly a city problem . Stay out of Hilo Town at night. Lock your car if you park.

    • @JaimeWarlock
      @JaimeWarlock Місяць тому +3

      No jobs in Puna area and commute from Pahoa to Hilo was insane. School buses run during rush hour traffic, making it take hours to get to Hilo. Almost as bad coming back. Turns an 8 hour work day into a thirteen hour marathon. Easier to just relax on your lot, collect food stamps, and panhandle a few hours a week to pay the electric bill.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому

      Big Island get too many people moving there and not enough jobs to support them. The only people who can get by easily are people from the states who move here to live on cheap high danger lava zone lots, live in illegal unpermitted structures and retire on SS checks.

    • @tedzehnder961
      @tedzehnder961 21 день тому +1

      People who make bad decisions in their lives like to blame other people for their problems.They are lying to themselves when they think it`s someone else`s fault.

  • @jame1seire
    @jame1seire 20 днів тому +3

    IN THE END, THE GOVT. IS TO BLAME FOR THIS. CONCENTRATE THE WEALTH IN HANDS OF A FEW AND THE REST SUFFER.

  • @derekayuyu1923
    @derekayuyu1923 Місяць тому +7

    Because it's too expensive there

  • @user-jq4fz6co8b
    @user-jq4fz6co8b Місяць тому +11

    Oahu, my hometown....man.
    You know what think is happening? I think all the capitalism and all the advancements in technology are starting to break. I think in the next 3 or 4 generations, people with money are going to be a thing of the past. It'll all gonna come crashing down and we're going to go back to small villages, people fending for themselves, developing their own little communities like it was before all the high-rises, etc. Nature is gonna is start taking the land back, politics and all this crap is going to be insignificant because life will return to pure survival. I honestly think it's a beautiful thing, as long as all the synthetic drugs and cartels and all that are no longer able to have influence.

    • @tedzehnder961
      @tedzehnder961 21 день тому +2

      The homeless can`t live or fend for themselves otherwise they would be doing it.The pioneer life is hard work and most homeless are soft. Half of them want to escape reality with drugs and alcohol and laying on their backs.They never grew up to take responsibility for their lives, that is fending for yourself.They burnt bridges with their families and the friends they chose dragged them down.

  • @kaybee5008
    @kaybee5008 Місяць тому +52

    Yes, it sure does! You are rich or poor in Hawaii! There’s no in between. My friend went there and couldn’t thrive. She ran out of money so quick and ended up being on the streets. She had to come back home it was so bad.

    • @BiggyCheese-sf8pm
      @BiggyCheese-sf8pm Місяць тому +6

      Hope she is ok

    • @paulonunes2002
      @paulonunes2002 Місяць тому +13

      Bad planning and mismanagement was the problem with your friend. She should have found a job as soon as she arrived.

    • @justdevine864
      @justdevine864 Місяць тому +5

      Right,it's super expensive there.

    • @jrs4ex
      @jrs4ex Місяць тому +19

      @@paulonunes2002From this series it sounds like she should’ve found 3 jobs

    • @kaybee5008
      @kaybee5008 Місяць тому +11

      @@BiggyCheese-sf8pmshe’s back home. We are going to start seeing this problem real soon in the rest of the states.

  • @GTLakeMate
    @GTLakeMate Місяць тому +6

    It smells like burning plastic, because the tweakers are burning the insulation off the copper wire.

    • @The716_
      @The716_ Місяць тому +1

      Crack also smells like plastic lol

  • @ParisianThinker
    @ParisianThinker Місяць тому +24

    Today, It brought tears to my eyes.
    We lived here during the early 1990’s for 7 years.
    It was paradise.

    • @tomsettles6873
      @tomsettles6873 Місяць тому +2

      It still is. I lived there in the 1990s for 5 years and it looks exactly the same. There were plenty of poverty areas in 1990s as well.

    • @emmakahoe5233
      @emmakahoe5233 Місяць тому +1

      I'm happy that you & your ohana had a beautiful life in the '90's...the homeless back then wasn't as much as it's now... because I was homeless on 'Oahu (where I'm born & raised) in the early '90's, by myself (on the streets) and then again, in a shelter with my son.

    • @tomsettles6873
      @tomsettles6873 Місяць тому +2

      @@emmakahoe5233 That sucks. I hope you're both doing well now. Its definitely tough to get above the 'struggling' line in Hawaii. I was just renting a room in a house in Kaimuki with 3 other guys so I was technically lower-income, but I really enjoyed my years there. My wife was born and raised on Oahu and its very difficult for us to see home prices get so darn high there. We'd like to buy a townhouse on Oahu and retire back to Hawaii but I don't think its going to happen because of home prices.

  • @makoa143ify
    @makoa143ify Місяць тому +10

    Sad to see the Kupuna (elders) homeless 😢

  • @jstme7802
    @jstme7802 Місяць тому +3

    It saddens my heart to see stuff like this on social media bcoz this makes the homeless situation we deal with here in Hawai'i much more real. In reality our people (the locals) out there isn't homeless. They are houseless. Hawai'i Is Our home. It's the cost of living here that is forcing our ppl to leave their homes and go houseless. Our ppl are even being forced to leave the island and move somewhere else. As for the other homeless's they are being sent here by the state that they were from and for them this is sad. They are told Hawai'i is warmer unlike the burning cold cities they will leave behind. So the homeless gladly accept the free trip to paradise only to find that living in paradise isn't all what they thougt. And once they get here they are stuck. This is when drugs, alchohol and crime becomes their only means of survival. So yes you see many ppl with mental health issues (ppl from all walks of life who once upon a time had a life) out on the streets and even on our beautiful beaches. If you all wanna help ppl like this raise awareness of the truth behind what these ppl are going through. Not jst in Hawai'i but around the United States.

  • @out2fun
    @out2fun Місяць тому +3

    My heart jumped when you were recording inside the tent, and a guy popped up 😂

  • @ihpbarber7798
    @ihpbarber7798 Місяць тому +35

    WOW, Hawaii is beautiful. It so tragic we let this go on and just send money overseas to immigrants that just come in illegally. When do we as a people rise up and get rid of these immoral policies, i.e., politicians?

    • @chowch6603
      @chowch6603 Місяць тому

      Your government money to War abroad!

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki Місяць тому +4

      November 2024 is our chance. FJB

    • @zoneout00
      @zoneout00 Місяць тому +4

      @@Malama_Kiwhy Trump didn’t do anything 2016-2020 😂

    • @Malama_Ki
      @Malama_Ki Місяць тому +1

      @@zoneout00 keep it up kid and one day you’ll graduate middle school….

    • @zoneout00
      @zoneout00 Місяць тому +4

      @@Malama_Ki great comeback lol he didn’t do jack for the homeless but he did give tax breaks to his wealthy friends & donors 😂

  • @GoingNutsinTX
    @GoingNutsinTX Місяць тому +19

    This is Methed up!

  • @lisarogers1392
    @lisarogers1392 Місяць тому +3

    I live on Kauai and the trash along the roads is getting worse everyday Its so depressing

  • @tribequest9
    @tribequest9 Місяць тому +12

    most people don't realize that most homeless people are crazy and that most that crazy comes from brain damage from drug use. Irreparable damage

  • @nasimdanielhaq3639
    @nasimdanielhaq3639 Місяць тому +8

    “Just lay off the drugs”. Nick you should take this to authorities I think you have solved the homeless problem. 😂

  • @norahjaneeast5450
    @norahjaneeast5450 Місяць тому +19

    I think it's the new meth people lose the ability to communicate very common Here in Portland to have people that can't even talk

    • @lindawilson795
      @lindawilson795 Місяць тому +1

      Wow that's alarming. 😮

    • @lindawilson795
      @lindawilson795 Місяць тому +8

      When Portland legalized the drugs I'd say the problems escalated. 😮

    • @QueenB572
      @QueenB572 Місяць тому +7

      Thank the Democratic Party! Look what happened in Lahaina!

    • @norahjaneeast5450
      @norahjaneeast5450 Місяць тому

      @@lindawilson795 yes indeed

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому +3

      It’s more like fentanyl. Interestingly Mexicans are the fastest growing demographic here, there’s more Mexicans than Hawaiians here now. And interestingly as the Mexican population grew, the amount of fentanyl being snuck in has gone up too. Coincidence?! Probably not considering Mexico is the main producer of fentanyl & Hawai’i has the largest pacific port which many unground “organizations” have taken advantage of for decades now.

  • @alanpowers5307
    @alanpowers5307 18 днів тому +3

    Drive all way to the end of Kili Drive right before Makaha Surfing Beach, and you will see the biggest camp on Oahu. There is a water tower near the apartment complex where you can walk in and see some crazy stuff

  • @ShirleyHester-zq8wj
    @ShirleyHester-zq8wj Місяць тому +7

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      @RigEquipment-And-Operations Місяць тому

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      @RicRabina Місяць тому

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      @Misseve418 Місяць тому

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    • @Yesminjames
      @Yesminjames Місяць тому

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    • @ChristieDavid-v4m
      @ChristieDavid-v4m Місяць тому

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  • @kenwenzel9040
    @kenwenzel9040 Місяць тому +32

    It makes one cry for America. Shame on all our liberal politicians who have let this become the norm.

    • @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom
      @The.Hawaiian.Kingdom Місяць тому

      The Hawaiian Kingdom is not part of America, it is OCCUPIED by America since 1893.

    • @Khayyam-vg9fw
      @Khayyam-vg9fw Місяць тому +1

      And all the Neoliberal ones, too.

    • @SofiasVlogsAndDIYs
      @SofiasVlogsAndDIYs Місяць тому +1

      What an asanine comment. Show me what your side has done for the people...

    • @moniquesilverans3842
      @moniquesilverans3842 Місяць тому +1

      Non, ces sans-abri sont des adultes donc ils sont responsables de leur vie, il ne faut rien attende de l'Etat il faut tout attendre de soi-même

    • @Khayyam-vg9fw
      @Khayyam-vg9fw Місяць тому

      @@moniquesilverans3842 That is a staggeringly heartless doctrine, as well as a demonstrably false one.

  • @williambush7971
    @williambush7971 Місяць тому +50

    Lesson for the day. It is not a homeless problem. It is a drug problem.

    • @mjblue84
      @mjblue84 Місяць тому +12

      AND a mental illness problem as well.

    • @FrankScuderi
      @FrankScuderi Місяць тому

      and the powers that be supply the drugs to people,its all by design,its ww3 with no bullets and bombs,the modern world is a scam

    • @deannasilva893
      @deannasilva893 Місяць тому +3

      Yes. I wonder how much of the homeless came here from other places?

    • @motokev2727
      @motokev2727 Місяць тому +6

      Mental plays a part but so does weak minds.

    • @jackdarren9210
      @jackdarren9210 Місяць тому +8

      It's a democrat problem.

  • @debsmith7025
    @debsmith7025 Місяць тому +3

    Dog the Bounty Hunter had a few of those homeless camps on his show when he was looking for fugitives and some of them were pretty elaborate. Beth helped a few of them. One woman had kids. She said you have to get these kids out of here. The woman worked 2 part time jobs and couldn't afford rent. Beth helped her get a 1 bedroom apartment it was around $1,000 15 years ago. The woman said with foodstamps and welfare and her 2 jobs she could make the rent. Beth paid first month rent and deposit plus gave her money to get beds or something to sit on. She got a bunk bed and a blow up bed, a couch and table and chairs and someone gave her a TV. Beth was kind hearted and willing to help people. They helped a lot of people go to rehab and get off ice Hawaii's version of meth. One of my friends lived in Hawaii for 6 months so she could help her uncle recover from surgery. He was buying the house and it took the uncle, 2 of his kids and a family friend living there just to make the house payments and utilities. They worked full time and 2 of them worked a 2nd job. The uncle got social security disability.

  • @colanitower
    @colanitower Місяць тому +12

    Tragic, drama and all that but at 2:21 some creative people still have the spirit to install the funniest doorbell ever 🙂

    • @cindylopez5599
      @cindylopez5599 Місяць тому +3

      Keep voting democrat Hawaii. They let this happen. Please stop.😢

  • @Gemelli2906
    @Gemelli2906 Місяць тому +15

    But they have billions for war. Billions that could be used to help our own people. So disgusting Im ashamed.

  • @daniel-nw5iq
    @daniel-nw5iq Місяць тому +26

    The biggest problem is everyone wants to smoke ice crystal meth instead of working

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 Місяць тому +5

      ABSOLUTELY 💯. But thrn the rest of us are firced to give them welfare and medical care

    • @JahfariParris
      @JahfariParris Місяць тому +2

      U really have some nerve to speak on a issue u have never experienced.

    • @moniquesilverans3842
      @moniquesilverans3842 Місяць тому +1

      @@JahfariParris Ce sont des adultes responsable et à leur âge ils ne doivent plus être aidé car ils doivent s'aider eux-mêmes donc travailler et ne pas se droguer

  • @beamingglow3246
    @beamingglow3246 Місяць тому +4

    Perfect way to start the video. I love this soo much and wanna see more of this across america

  • @katiewillgo
    @katiewillgo Місяць тому +10

    Great video Nick 🙏🏼

  • @karenblaise9208
    @karenblaise9208 Місяць тому +22

    Sad.

  • @karlkaliningrad8716
    @karlkaliningrad8716 Місяць тому +2

    The vast amount of people you interviwed had shown up merely 2yrs before without financial stability. They knew what they were getting into.

  • @stealcian74
    @stealcian74 Місяць тому +9

    Funny I remember thinking the homelessness was bad when i was there in 2011. Looks way worse now.

    • @davidtishar144
      @davidtishar144 Місяць тому +1

      That was the year I left (2011) after 18 years, plain just got priced out and it was a mess then, thankful to have gotten out and my life is much better now.

  • @stevenk5800
    @stevenk5800 Місяць тому +3

    This is the Hawaii Gov Josh Green doesn’t want you to see!! Thank you for exposing this, not that we don’t know about it. But it might open more eyes!!

  • @optimusP43
    @optimusP43 Місяць тому +1

    It really doesn't help when homeless from other states are given plane tickets to Hawaii, being told that there are resources to help them and when they arrive they find out that these resources dont exist.

  • @ojbudz
    @ojbudz Місяць тому +32

    Perfect weather to be a bum.

  • @SvetlanaVoikova
    @SvetlanaVoikova Місяць тому +22

    I really feel sorry for these people..