Part of the problem other part is the leftist policies of just tossing free everything and money at the problem and not addressing the real issues 90% of homeless is because of mental health issues, not affordable housing. If you can't afford to live someplace you can always move to another cheaper location. CA homeless issues are entirely because of policy.
They can land anywhere in the U.S and do that. Hawaii is no better than the other 49 states when it comes to homelessness. It ain’t like no Hawaiians ever, in the history of the U.S, never ended up in another state homeless and on welfare. It happens. You’re naive if you think otherwise.
I have a long lost cousin who moved to Hawaii to make it easier for him to live on the beach. At least that’s the story we got. No one knows where he is or how he’s doing. Last I heard he had been hit by a car & was now in a wheelchair. It makes me sad, he doesn’t want any help from even the extended family, we’ve tried. 😢
My father and his GF got tickets from California to Hawaii from a charity. They stayed and begged in Honolulu for six months before getting another set of free tickets to go back to California. Insane.
They are turning a blind eye. Help them where they are. They say their returning them to their families and support. If they had that, they wouldn’t be homeless in Hawaii in the first place. Don’t pretend they’re lives will get rosy cause you buy them a ticket. Passing the buck, with a human being. We should all do our part. Sad.
The mainland has been sending their homeless to Hawaii and other year round warmer climates since forever. I remember hearing about it back in ‘98 when I started going Kapiolani. Glad that Hawaii is fighting back. These other states need to handle their own homeless population instead of pawning them off to other places.
I don't think anyone, much less a state government or state agency, has sent homeless to Hawaii out of the blue. In fact, since 2015, Hawaii has had a program to fly homeless _out_ of the state, and they've pitched towards over 600 flights. There was an article making the rounds online accusing New York state of flying homeless to Hawaii, no questions asked. Despite the headline, in reality, it turned out that, in five years, New York state had flown one person to Hawaii. That person was a Hawaiian native who was going to move back home with family. There is no program to shovel homeless onto Hawaii's social services and take advantage of Hawaii. It does not exist. Hawaii has no problem producing its own homeless via drugs and exploding cost of living. There's no evidence of a large number of out-of-state homeless in Hawaii, since 90% of Hawaii's homeless are not from out of state. Plus, "Out of state" isn't just mainland US, it's Australia, Polynesia, etc... By comparison, in California, out-of-state homeless make up ~40% of the homeless population in LA, and ~70% of them were already homeless or at-risk of homelessness when they arrived in the CA.
Maybe they could use the money for food or rent instead of air travel to be homeless somewhere else. No one ever gives them money only programs and paperwork help systems because they "only buy drugs or alcohol" if they are allowed to have and use money.....yet many go decades without starving to death....
@@wmtrader we have THOUSANDS of them here in Southern California in almost every city. This is a DRUG and alcoholic epidemic!!! With a sprinkle of mental health problems
I love how these bums managed to book a flight to Hawaii, hoping their needs with be magically met at a destination that's known as a vacation spot and when they aren't met with sympathy, they play the victim card...
I've been homeless in several states. Maui is the most brutal environment i have experienced. If you are homeless and think it's Paradise, you are wrong. Do not go to Hawaii. You will regret it...Brown centipedes, scorpians, Cane spiders. Kiave thorns.
Anyone who shows up in a new state with no job, no money, no support system, no place to stay is absolutely planning to be homeless. This guy apparently thought it was going to be easier being homeless in Hawaii than it was in Boston.
Some States are considering a criminal charge for being homeless so they can throw them in jail. That is outrageous in itself plus it's cold at night in some States to be homeless. Doesn't make sense though about throwing them in jail as it would cost more to house them in jail instead of just providing affordable housing. Privatization. Not much you can do about it.
Your film crew probably had to walk past a few dozen Born and Raised Homeless to find 2 guys from the mainland who were willing to talk about wanting a free ticket.
Who's to say when they go back to the mainland their family will accept them, which mean they will be homeless in other states, essentially Hawaii is passing the the buck.
@@RAdaltonracer and yet there's several instances of tax dollars doing nothing for anyone, and is basically theft, such as paying cops who can't do anything about rampant crime in/around your business, only to tell you to hire private security out of pocket. Or the socialized taxpayer funded Healthcare system in england/canada plagued with so many delays and issues despite being paid for through much higher taxes that people still opt to pay out of pocket for private health care instead.
@@Heart2HeartBooks Except when a mainlander says "living in Hawaii" what they mean is, "live like an upper-middle-class person in Hawaii" they don't want to live modestly, the mainland attitude is the very opposite of humble. So this is why you hear mainlanders complain so much about Hawaii being expensive. They all want to live in Kahala and send their kids to Punahou.
Other States have been doing this for decades ... when I worked at the airport in the late 80s, a majority of the homeless, especially those from cold winter States said that Social Services would search them out in the Fall and suggest a free trip to a year round warmer climate instead of freezing to death where there were then. The State would clean them up, provide clothing, and tranfer their benefit along with them ... they also said the "Hawaiian Culture" takes care of their community ... Aloha!
Relocating homeless people back with their families is easier said than done. Have you asked their families if they wanted these people back in their lives? There's a reason they're not with their families anymore.
I’m sure they will have open arms to have them back in their home. Reality is they will be homeless in the state they are taken to and become that states problem is how they are viewed. The politicians and the wealthy in Hawaii don’t want to look at them that’s the reality.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 A lot of The Homeless came from Red States, it's too Cold or too Hot. They come to the Blue Cities for Compassion and better weather, but it's wearing thin now.
Hawaii's government has got to go. The way they're handling the homelessness is just pathetic. Overpricing everything that only caters to the rich and elite while showing no care for the poor shows how pathetic their government is.
Not trying to be rude BUT the Hawaiian Islands are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, most goods need to be shipped in by boat and that is expensive so things cost more. The Hawaiian government has no control over shipping costs. They have the same problem with prices in Alaska as shipping costs are high.
The problem can not be solved. There will always be homeless, there will always be people taking advantage of the system. Throwing money at the problem does not fix the problem. It is a mess. If you have a strong family that loves each other and helps, the chances of being homeless goes down alot. If you are waiting for the government to do something, you will remain homeless.
@johnjay6370 In every state, there is a law that senior students studying psychology can not practice on actual patients until they graduate and has a veteran psychologist to sit in with their first patients. Change those rules, and allow these senior students to practice on homeless people while being supervised. A families love and appreciation can be replaced if the non family cares enough...this has been proven many times over because of the families splitting up in the past. Start a program where the homeless work, where others don't want to, and offer them a small community of shipping container homes. Allow them to run it themselves, but have at least one city council member from a nearby community there to keep a constant eye on them. Drug dogs will be at the front gates, as well as breathalyzer test. Give them one year to adjust through therapy and then shut down all local forest from overnight camping. Never say a problem can't be solved,...without completely looking into the problem! and don't think so much less of your neighbors than you do yourself! You wouldn't like it if they did that to you.
@@valeriepickens2533 I wish it could be solved, but it is deep and very complex. I agree that we still have to try and solve it and out side the box thinking needs to be tried because what we are doing is not working. I do not think less of anyone if i sounded like that I am sorry. I have family members that will go homeless without family support, that is just a fact. They are autistic and will never be able to make it without help. That is why a family is so important. As a father I will never let my kids go homeless and they will always have a home as long as i am alive. Some families are not like that, and it is sad.
What will you do for all the local Hawaii folks who are now homeless on the mainland? Will you buy them a ticket back home and help them get back on their feet? These mainlanders make this their 'vacation" by just flying back and forth and they always come back. But Hawaii folks long to come home but can't afford to. Invest in our people who rightfully belong in Hawaii.
Once worked for mental health organization in Phoenix, Arizona. When winter would hit with snow and cold weather north and east of Arizona (talking all the way to the east coast), "Greyhounders" would start arriving. States with excessive homeless and/or mentally challenged individuals would buy them a one-way ticket to Phoenix on a Greyhound bus. Hawaii is now going to do the same thing it seems, but since a Greyhound bus isn't available, they'll fly them, give them some seed money and say "now don't you come back now, you hear?" Can't imagine the recipient states are going to like any action like this.
I like how Hawaii is making it seem like they’re reuniting them back with their families. Are we that stupid? They don’t want it to be their problem any longer that’s why.
The same corporations who took hand outs from the government funded by tax payer money are now buying up the single family homes and raising prices to be unaffordable
what I expected when I came to Honolulu was grass skirts and pristine beaches. what I experienced was gridlocked traffic jams and vast homeless encampments.
Many of them come from Laguna Beach California. Laguna has been trying to get rid of its homeless to avoid a low income affordable housing state mandate.
LOL…the Laguna Beach “homeless” problem is counted in the dozens. If you have ever been to Laguna, it’s stunningly beautiful and extremely wealthy with a median home at ~$2.5mm. If Laguna is sending their homeless anywhere - who are not from Laguna - then they’re prob spending $50 on a Uber and directing them back to LA. (Of course, most of LA’s homeless were sent there from other places across the US). The “affordable housing” CA mandate is a tyrannical edict that applies to every city in the State no matter what the homeless population is.
How does a homeless person, presumably living week to week, afford airfare to Hawaii ? Then presumably a cab downtown, where they just rock up to a shelter in time for a meal ? I must be missing something here.
Makes sense in my eyes. Hawaii is probably the most expensive state so you wouldn't want to pay local prices for food, water, housing, etc. From a purely cost viewpoint, the best way to afford it all is for all the states to pool their money together and just pick say the top 5 cheapest places to live and distribute them among those areas.
@@jakew1362 Exactly. These states have high salaries, high cost of living, etc. and so are wildly inefficient, funding-wise. Just doing a quick search on numbeo for cost of living difference between Honolulu and OKC gives us about 25% cheaper. Honestly, a very good savings rate, especially when we're talking about tens or even hundreds of millions. And that doesn't even account for economies of scale. Adding that, we're talking easily at least 30%, maybe more.
Back in 1972, there was a program like this in California, and they bought me and my friend a bus ticket to go back to Wisconsin, it was lovely, I was 18, and very happy to be back home.
I could kind see this as a bunch of kids heading to Cali to say join the hippie culture and finding out it wasn't as true as advertised. So, maybe Cali could do that knowning it was a reality check for the kids and they wouldn't be back again. Sounds like that was you?
@@TheJhtlag Well yes in a way. I went back several times though, a little more prepared to be able to live there. The friend I got the bus ride though never went back. A friend I went out there with stayed and helped me more when I went out there the second time. So yes and no. I am sure it saved many people's lives too. I was surprised at how many offers I got to make money.... not in a good way.... and I am sure some people did it. By the third time I went out, I ended up living there for a few years, going to college, having a small house where my kids could run around outside a lot, it was much better than the first time!
@@cynthiajohnson6747 I am glad you are still here. Hitchhiking was fun most of the time, a lot of good people, but now that I am older, I realize what a foolish thing that was to do.
Hawaii is a settlement. No one is from Hawaii. Any human that goes to the islands deserves to live life as they please. Scary right? It's the same for the mainland. 20,000 people a month are crossing boarders with no jobs, and often no identity. Honestly at the boarder of Texas, Arizona, and California 5% of the people who enter should have to option of traveling to Hawaii. Before you freak out this statement is based on reality, and not emotion. That's why you may be triggered. My deepest apologies! Peace, love, and pomaikai
This was exactly happened in early 70s in California, they offered up to 10,000 to large families on welfare to leave for up to 10 years. My husband and I were stationed there in Air Force we could barley afford to eat. And knew quite a few families that relocated to Texas, They packed up cars,trucks,kids dogs and away they went. The first move they were given 3000 to move and then paid after 1 year. It made me angry then, does now. I live in a state that does same thing, these homeless show up with warm weather spring and then claim freezing starving conditions and want to go back home. They panhandle for money, but refuse food. Our town tells them to move on your not welcome, few stay,but I feel for the tax payers, we have no choice but to stay and pay high prices. When I lived in Arizona 14 years ago homelessness seemed a full time occupation for some. One such highway beggar on his site in Tempe raised 67,000 in cash. Just armed with small sign and freindly smile ,please help. I remember helping him drop off cold water, hot coffee and a dollar or two. But when the article came out that he was a student doing a thesis for his masters I felt duped. He donated all the money to local charities,but he hurt the community. They have really craked down on pan handlers but it's gone to far. Tent city is now tent state. Many go there for weather , hurting those that can't afford to live,or leave! People use to work for a living, now they pick a state and move,and maybe move again. I've been homeless,with small children lived in broken down cars,and empty buildings, but I worked my tail off to get out of that situation ,no one wants to work anymore! There are solutions but people don't like the answers. Get a job, work for food, if it isn't yours don't touch it. Being born entitles you to nothing. Share with less fortunate children and teach them how to work not take
"They panhandle for money, but refuse food".- that's because they're not starving. public policy is geared to drive down the cost of food and to drive up the cost of housing. there's hardly anyone alive that was around when it was typical for impoverished people in america to be severely underfed yet they still "feed the homeless". in fact offering food to homeless people is one of the least charitable things a person can do because it costs them so little because food is cheap.
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This is called patient dumping, and it happens when an indigent person with considerable health problems becomes a financial burden to their community. The hospital or local government will put them on a bus or a plane, and when they arrive to that new area, they may get a paid night or two in a hotel before they're on the street. It's all designed to rid that hospital or municipality of the financial cost
Im a trucker, see tons of homeless and homeless camps around the country. I would say for many it is obviously addictions. That stuff costs money, and so they put the drugs or the alcohol as priority one, not rent, not keeping a job. Then there are those that simply didnt have enough money saved for hard times and fell on hard times. Im sure there are other categories, but these seem to be the main ones. So stay off drugs mmmk, and bank your money.
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here. Are they serious, thinking the homeless people are from the states? Hawaii needs to find pono, forgive and move forward. ho'oponopono.
@@mktay2067 exactly. It’s not like the rest of the US where you can just hop on a bus, train, or drive between states to get home if you’re in need of help. Flying is the only way.
My friend worked as an orderly at the psych ward at a hospital here on the BI and says most of the people get free tickets from towns on the mainland that just want them out of there not caring about what happens. We need to find out who and where, send them the back and bill those towns for the cost. It's taking away from what little resources our local homeless population have.
Be careful Hawaii, the states may return the favor. In fact, TX needs to send Hawaii a few thousand illegals on a weekly basis. After all, Crazy Mazie, Hawaii's senator is always saying how great illegals are, but very, very few ever make it to Hawaii for that love from Mazie.
My daughter is 20 years old she left to homeless shelter because I told her she had to do some thing help in house cleaning or go to school or get a job not sleep all day long and then get up a 10 a night to eat and talk loud early the next morning & then go back to sleep until 10 pm again & again
@@catchumifyoucan Probably not, but it illustrates a point. Typical millenial/post-millenial generation slacker-attitude, it feeds into the overall situation the country is experiencing now. Although some of them do work, but they demand their yoga meditation rooms, gourmet cafe bars, and massage breaks from their employers. Losers all the way around.
i have been to multiple islands in hawaii. i have spent lots of time there and have friends there. the homeless crisis is out of hand. such a shame. i have gotten my property stolen by homeless people on WAKIKI shore.
The theft is everywhere, and so is are the homeless! We have a heart issue here, people want everything fofree & they get it either begging or stealing
Wish we could do the same in California. Most of our homeless come from our of state. Guess the warm weather and liberal policies are just too attractive.
I used to work for Social Services years ago. Homeless people would travel up to northern states when it was warm as they paid way more in benefits. Once it started to cool off they would make the trek south where it was warmer. We called them "Welfare Snow Birds".
I guess when your homeless Hawaii does sound like a good place to be. It’s tough to say what I would or wouldn’t do. I know I would want to live somewhere safe and comfort to live outdoors.
Heck i have a cousin that refers to himself as a traveler. He has been all over the USA and Canada. Lives on the streets and backpacks all over. He returns home and tells all these stories about survival on the beach fishing and eating out of dumpsters. Has no interest on getting a job and being in the rat race. Funny thing is he is healthy as heck and fit
I worked in Hawaii years ago and if a person is going to be homeless , that's the place to be homeless. Great weather , food grows wild , lots of part time work .
We have had programs like this for years, paying airfare to ship homeless people elsewhere. As a 60 year old, disabled, retired teacher & 27 year Kauai resident who was recently homeless for 18 months, how about using this money to provide safe haven land for homeless people to sleep & have access to toilets, showers, running water & electricity on every island? Having police officers keep telling homeless people to “go somewhere else, stay on the move, illegal to sleep in your vehicle” etc., when there is NOWHERE to go is unacceptable after so many years. With each county in the state a separate island, people are unable to walk, or drive, to another county for help. Kauai’s only shelter has 18 beds for hundreds of homeless people, with ridiculous rules & limits, keeping half those beds empty every night. Over a year on the waiting list, I never got one night in the KEO shelter. Hawaii needs to do better for all their residents, not just those on Oahu. And you can’t keep shipping people off, or telling them to leave, just to keep them out of sight & remove the eyesore of homeless humans in paradise. Hawaii’s people are not as stupid as you treat us. We see how every state in the country is helping homeless people except our own. Treat every human being with kindness & compassion and help those less fortunate, as if they were your own family member. Don’t just look away. We exist. We are part of humanity & a reflection of this community. We are a child of God, equally deserving of love, food & shelter. We give decades of our lives to improve our communities here in Hawaii just to be thrown out like garbage & treated like unwanted trash. Come on Hawaii politicians and people, you can do much better!!!💔
Man have not been there since 2004. I will buy a one way ticket, hang out a while, doing some camping, get a tan, snorkel, smoke some, drink coffee than when I am ready get a free ticket head back hopefully non-stop to my house in Texas.
I always imagined that if I was homeless, I would panhandle enough money to fly to Hawaii, or stow away aboard a ship headed there. Then I could build a small Gilligan's-Island-esque shanty out of coconuts and bamboo and survive off fish, macadamia nuts and guavas.
And LOTS of native Hawaiians, not only those born thee but the actual indigenous Hawaiian people are being forced by insane prices to leave their island homes.
It might be a little bit harsh, but if you don’t have a place to live, you shouldn’t be just wandering around an island Paradise turning it into a chaotic, trash dump. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen anywhere at least of all in a place like Hawaii.
I've been saying this for years! People need to be responsible for their own families! There ARE people who do want to be homeless. They choose it over going back to their families all the time!
Very good idea‼️ Please work hard on this. It's so much easier on the mainland. Hawaii is the most expensive state to live in. Housing is limited and very 💲💲💲🌴 Mahalo 🙏✌️🤙
How did the two Boston dudes get to Hawaii without any cash...What were they doing there that they couldn't do back in Boston... 🤔🤔🤔.. That's like a 12 hr flight right... Wtf..
They were avoiding freezing. All the cozy steam vents are claimed by tougher dudes than them. The T stations are full up, they get rousted out of South Station's rest rooms. Nothing for it but a Hawaiian vacation, maybe the dole is better in another Blue state/
Hawaii tried something similar decades ago. Hawaii told homeless that if they couldn't support themselves within X amount of time, they would be sent back where they came from. It was ruled unconstitutional. On another note, there are probably many living in Hawaii who are illegal immigrants and in my long life time, I've only heard of one that was deported back to Mexico after living in Hawaii for over ten years!
… Imagine FLYING (paying money) to Hawaii, one of the most expensive states in America (and most isolated), and having no plan, no money, and nowhere to go? Make it make sense! What was the point?
Have these politicians driven down the Waianae coast lately ??? Every foot of beach space is taken up by a homeless “camp” !!!! How do you send them home they are local !!
Exactly! I heard those state give them a lump sum of money to bribe them to come here, a homeless person told me that, that's disgusting to hear for me. People literally peeing in the middle of the sidewalk, while I'm trying to walk to work, sleeping in the middle.
Other states have been bussing homeless out of state for years. It’s not a new idea. Cops ask the homeless where are you from? They say San Francisco or wherever? Do you have family there we can call? If yes they call them and ask if they are willing to help their homeless family member? Once they confirm that help is available in the other state the city buys them a bus ticket out of town. Genius idea.
This is an honest question from someone from a third world country: why is the US not building more shelters with programs on life skills training, substance abuse rehabilitation and employment assistance? A good program will probably get a few off the streets for good. I get the relocation solution if the homeless population are mostly refugees or illegal migrants, but that seems to be not the case.
We r a third world country only the elities have money and the wealthy are the ones leading the country. People not born into wealth in the u.s are literally one pay check away from being homeless themselves. The u.s is a 3rd world country wearing a gucci belt
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.
Do these people truly think that their families will support them when they haven’t supported them before? Many of these people have mental health issues, or addictions, and families have tried to help with no success. Some anre also veterans and this country owes them and should provide mental health care in housing. So many people believe that life should be happy and wonderful and when it isn’t, they turn to drugs, and that is their downfall. Some people don’t have families.
I’m from SoCal and are poverty is 3rd world level due to the amount of homeless people that come and live here. It has crippled out infrastructure and the state simply cannot handle the amount of homeless. It’s beyond control. I believe CA should do what HI is doing and send people home. Homeless people should be able to utilize resources in their home states.
Exactly. My parents contributed to Catholic Charities for years. I called CC when I had breast cancer and was broke and they blew me off. The Salvos helped me keep my utilities on.
I think that's a great idea, however.... How exactly do the Hawaiian authorities think people from the mainland got there to begin with? Great sending them to the mainland but if they want Hawai'i, they will just fly back to Hawai'i
You will need a passport or Real ID to board a plane starting next week. If they go back to the mainland and lose their ID it will be very hard to get back to Hawaii. Mine expired and it was a pain to renew.
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.
I was thinking about trying to buy a condo in Hawaii but the island pricing everyone to homelessness. Unfortunately, it’s happening in the mainland for popular areas. Let’s deal with the first issue in America it starts with mental illness and education at all levels.
Why? That money can be used to help people who actually deserves it or improve the living conditions of those that actually paid taxes and not these A-holes who failed at life.
@@InsiderBoy so you think the people that work hard for their money and had it taken from them by the Hawaiian government don't deserve the fruit of their labors? You sound like you would be really at home with the way that the government philosophy is in California. I'm talking to people that unlike you actually have jobs and pay income tax in this place.
nobody is getting helped either way. even this solution is just to make them another state’s problem. i doubt they are stringently checking there are relatives at the destination
Chicago is paying $25 Million a month to house the incoming migrants. And Hawaii only pays $100,000 annually to fly them back? Where is the Love and Support, that Chicago's Mayor-to- be Brandon Johnson, says we all need?
We were stationed in Hawaii in back in 1990 and again in 2000. It was truly a paradise. We came back for a visit in 2019, we were shocked by the number of homeless people. And the smell of weed was everywhere 😢 very sad indeed.
The problem is that for every legit homeless person that is there on the streets and is trying to find a way out, there are a thousand that are there voluntarily. They either have severe mental problems, ane drug addicts, or a combination of both. The vast majority of these people choose to be where they are and won't stay clean. Anything you do for them or give them is enabling their addictions. Life is not going to lay down for anyone or anything.
The truth no one acknowledges: as world population grows, as robotics handles most of the heavy lifting jobs, there is no way every adult can have a job. Not feasible or probable. Most of the world WILL be unemployed, which means most will not be able to afford housing. Don't you think it would be good idea to start planning now, rather than just reacting and sweeping things (people) under the rug?
@@thomastaylor8657 if you read again, closely, you will realize I am talking about the future. The Future. Not the present. Not Now. Sadly most that work multiple jobs, where I live (perhaps not were you live), either barely make a living or barely sleep. I know grandparents working more to help kids that are also working. We are getting paid less for the same job or for more work. It is very difficult. Now....envision 50...40...30...even 20 years into the future. Automated factories and trucks and shipping. Higher and higher rents. More expensive less healthy food. And a population maybe close to 12...15 billion. 2/5 of adult age and able to work. Does not look good!
During the covid travelers coming into Hawaii needed to provide an address. Each day there were passengers stopped by the gate agent because they couldn't provide an address not even a hotel or a 24 fitness address on the form... You don't realize how many people are coming in every day since the restrictions were left...
Maui was pretty bad with homeless when we went a few weeks ago. But so is almost everywhere. Need to help more than sending them off to other states to be their problem. I’m sure the cheapest way that they’ll do this is to send them to California, which would be terrible. No help here in this state for them, that’s for sure.
This has to happen. I believe people have a right to go where they please, but people do not have a right to travel for the sole purpose of being a hobo on the streets. If you are a hobo, be a hobo where you are, and get help from the people who made you into a hobo. It's like knocking on the door of a distant relative and asking if you can crash on the couch, eat her food, and driver her car once in a while, indefinitely. f that. Once this is a success, move onto the hippies from out of state, who make their homes on public land and leave a mess when they move from one place to the next. The hippie encroachment is a double-layer of theft from native Hawaiians.
Yes this is what they do to LA. Tired of all the homeless coming to LA from the colder states and taxing Angelenos to spend BILLIONS for homeless.... Building them tiny 350 sq ft apartment costing over $700,000
@@michaelashby9654 I believe in community and despise interlopers who take advantage of community. The thing is, they already had a backyard, but they liked the sunnier, greener backyard of someone else's home. If you are in Seattle or hail from there, you know a little bit about the hobo carpetbaggers who made that beautiful city into a tent town. If you're an old timer, you probably heard the "yo-momma" jokes about 1st and Pike. Back then, you could drive through that area, and there might be one or two discreet hobos. It's an infestation now.
This happens in Claifornia also, most of the homeless aren't from there, just taking advantage of the weather.
And all this time I thought it was Cartman.
Plus all the free cash grabs the wonderful CA governor gives them.. 👍🏻👍🏻
A lot of homeless in CA came here thinking they’ll make it big, some do, and the communist laws help them live free of charge at times.
@@OhBrutalOne Name one.
Part of the problem other part is the leftist policies of just tossing free everything and money at the problem and not addressing the real issues 90% of homeless is because of mental health issues, not affordable housing. If you can't afford to live someplace you can always move to another cheaper location. CA homeless issues are entirely because of policy.
It’s amazing that strangers can arrive in Hawaii, and simply demand welfare.
JUST like ILLEGALS coming across in Texas.
They can land anywhere in the U.S and do that. Hawaii is no better than the other 49 states when it comes to homelessness. It ain’t like no Hawaiians ever, in the history of the U.S, never ended up in another state homeless and on welfare. It happens. You’re naive if you think otherwise.
@Nobody Spiritually gang raped, please sir do enlighten me.
@@pootersnacks mfkrs crazy is the simple answer 😂
Hawaii needs to be taking in “refugees “ like every other state .
Hawaii needs to be turned into a big refugee camp .
I have a long lost cousin who moved to Hawaii to make it easier for him to live on the beach. At least that’s the story we got. No one knows where he is or how he’s doing. Last I heard he had been hit by a car & was now in a wheelchair. It makes me sad, he doesn’t want any help from even the extended family, we’ve tried. 😢
any chance its the guy on the video?
@@jamesmacatangay8360 clever
Does he have mental issues or is it drugs or what do you think wants him. to remain homeless? Serious question thank you.
@@mostlypeacefulcitizen8006 being broke gives you more freedom and less responsibilities.
someone in the family obviously abused and/ or molested him.
My father and his GF got tickets from California to Hawaii from a charity. They stayed and begged in Honolulu for six months before getting another set of free tickets to go back to California. Insane.
I Hope you don't have those scummy genetics from Dad.
He seems to be under the impression people have compassion.
Their families don't want them.
Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice,..... you know the rest!🤷🏿♂️👍🏿👋🏿😁
People like you are going to be reality checked!
After they burn bridges by stealing from you, bringing the drug friends over, and lying over again. Yeah we don't want them
well, just dont fly them to California !
People have a lot of compassion, but eventually it runs out when you're dealing with crazy, thieving drug addicts...
They are turning a blind eye. Help them where they are. They say their returning them to their families and support. If they had that, they wouldn’t be homeless in Hawaii in the first place. Don’t pretend they’re lives will get rosy cause you buy them a ticket. Passing the buck, with a human being. We should all do our part. Sad.
Exactly 💯
The Federal government should build affordable housing in Hawaii
The mainland has been sending their homeless to Hawaii and other year round warmer climates since forever. I remember hearing about it back in ‘98 when I started going Kapiolani. Glad that Hawaii is fighting back. These other states need to handle their own homeless population instead of pawning them off to other places.
I don't think anyone, much less a state government or state agency, has sent homeless to Hawaii out of the blue. In fact, since 2015, Hawaii has had a program to fly homeless _out_ of the state, and they've pitched towards over 600 flights.
There was an article making the rounds online accusing New York state of flying homeless to Hawaii, no questions asked. Despite the headline, in reality, it turned out that, in five years, New York state had flown one person to Hawaii. That person was a Hawaiian native who was going to move back home with family. There is no program to shovel homeless onto Hawaii's social services and take advantage of Hawaii. It does not exist.
Hawaii has no problem producing its own homeless via drugs and exploding cost of living. There's no evidence of a large number of out-of-state homeless in Hawaii, since 90% of Hawaii's homeless are not from out of state. Plus, "Out of state" isn't just mainland US, it's Australia, Polynesia, etc... By comparison, in California, out-of-state homeless make up ~40% of the homeless population in LA, and ~70% of them were already homeless or at-risk of homelessness when they arrived in the CA.
Maybe they could use the money for food or rent instead of air travel to be homeless somewhere else. No one ever gives them money only programs and paperwork help systems because they "only buy drugs or alcohol" if they are allowed to have and use money.....yet many go decades without starving to death....
They’re better off there than on the mainland. If you’re going to be homeless, it might as well be a vacation destination.
@@Nuttyirishman85 it’s still a place where the homeless are not truly helped. Your just shipping your problems elsewhere & not solving homelessness.
@@UtilityPro Happy people on vacation are more likely to throw you a buck. Then me all pissed off at a stop light after a long day at work
Question is, how did these homeless afford a ticket from Boston?
Panhandling.
Boston charities and social services paid them to go to Hawaii and California.
Or did they just save for a one way ticket? 🤔
@@wmtrader we have THOUSANDS of them here in Southern California in almost every city. This is a DRUG and alcoholic epidemic!!! With a sprinkle of mental health problems
If they're truly homeless and on SS/Disability, their meager income can exceed their bills enough to save for a ticket.
Wheelchair guy basically said “it’s your problem, not mine.”
He's right.
He voted straight Democrat in Boston.
And now he's voting straight Democrat in Honolulu.
BONUS: The tropical weather agrees with him.
He's saying, I am your problem now!! hahahhaa! what losers!!
@@rnettles6241 -People have free movement in our country. Red or blue. This isn’t Russia. Since he’s a welfare queen, he’s probably red.
Yup. Hawaii is so brainwashed they keep voting Democrats.
probably got in a wheel chair after a bar fight he started
I love how these bums managed to book a flight to Hawaii, hoping their needs with be magically met at a destination that's known as a vacation spot and when they aren't met with sympathy, they play the victim card...
I've been homeless in several states. Maui is the most brutal environment i have experienced. If you are homeless and think it's Paradise, you are wrong. Do not go to Hawaii. You will regret it...Brown centipedes, scorpians, Cane spiders. Kiave thorns.
@Ryan S They are giving you a first hand experience so maybe they are not wrong?
@@attackfalcon Maui is #3 for beaches closed due to fecal contamination. So glad I left thatToxic Rock.
Maui No Ka Oi!
@@bullyboy131 Southside Kihei boy long time.
@Ryan S I want to do a eMTB tour where do I sign up?
“…landed here about a month ago with nowhere to go.” The problem is contained within that one quote.
Get the homeless mexican sponsors to help them grt jobs. Migrant mexicans always have a job. You hardly see a homeless mexican
He finds a way to land there but somehow it is someone else's responcibility to provide him with a way back.
Anyone who shows up in a new state with no job, no money, no support system, no place to stay is absolutely planning to be homeless. This guy apparently thought it was going to be easier being homeless in Hawaii than it was in Boston.
At least you can sleep outside at night without freezing to death.
no snow !
yea, they are homeless, they sleep outside. The weather in Massachusetts will absolutely kill you without a proper shelter.
He had the money for a ticket, didn't he? Send him back and put him on a list so authorities know who he is.
Some States are considering a criminal charge for being homeless so they can throw them in jail. That is outrageous in itself plus it's cold at night in some States to be homeless. Doesn't make sense though about throwing them in jail as it would cost more to house them in jail instead of just providing affordable housing. Privatization. Not much you can do about it.
Your film crew probably had to walk past a few dozen Born and Raised Homeless
to find 2 guys from the mainland who were willing to talk about wanting a free ticket.
Especially since the native people are being pushed out by the super-wealthy. Makes me sick.
That politician didn't believe for one second he was doing it for the good of those homeless people. I swear every politician is a scumbag.
Who's to say when they go back to the mainland their family will accept them, which mean they will be homeless in other states, essentially Hawaii is passing the the buck.
Amazing. I've worked for 45 years and I can't afford to live in Hawaii, but I'm supposed to pay taxes to support somebody else living there?
Take your social security get on a plane and walla you are now living in hawaii!
You act like that’s not partially what taxes are for. Helping others, not just yourself.
@@RAdaltonracer and yet there's several instances of tax dollars doing nothing for anyone, and is basically theft, such as paying cops who can't do anything about rampant crime in/around your business, only to tell you to hire private security out of pocket. Or the socialized taxpayer funded Healthcare system in england/canada plagued with so many delays and issues despite being paid for through much higher taxes that people still opt to pay out of pocket for private health care instead.
Yeah, like all the liberal states!
@@Heart2HeartBooks Except when a mainlander says "living in Hawaii" what they mean is, "live like an upper-middle-class person in Hawaii" they don't want to live modestly, the mainland attitude is the very opposite of humble. So this is why you hear mainlanders complain so much about Hawaii being expensive. They all want to live in Kahala and send their kids to Punahou.
Other States have been doing this for decades ... when I worked at the airport in the late 80s, a majority of the homeless, especially those from cold winter States said that Social Services would search them out in the Fall and suggest a free trip to a year round warmer climate instead of freezing to death where there were then. The State would clean them up, provide clothing, and tranfer their benefit along with them ... they also said the "Hawaiian Culture" takes care of their community ... Aloha!
It's true.
fascinating. I remember this homeless guy going to Hawaii - that was 20 years ago! Didn't know that was a homeless migration seasonal trip!
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Hopefully doing well ...
Chicago and Texas dumped homeless and people who caused trouble on Wisconsin for years, well documented.
Name a state that has done this for decade. Curious which ones.
Why would anyone think that people who live on the street have a support network to help them get their lives back??
I have a strange feeling this homeless problem is going to absolutely explode in the not too distant future.
Especially iN Floridumb.
Our leaders don't care about the poor.
Relocating homeless people back with their families is easier said than done. Have you asked their families if they wanted these people back in their lives? There's a reason they're not with their families anymore.
Oh wow.
That's true
I’m sure they will have open arms to have them back in their home. Reality is they will be homeless in the state they are taken to and become that states problem is how they are viewed. The politicians and the wealthy in Hawaii don’t want to look at them that’s the reality.
Many are hiding from the law or things they have done to others
@@Ryan-mf2rg oh wow what? It’s honest.
The homeless situation in the mainland is not any better 😔
It's in the blue cities.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 It's not a matter of "better". It's Do they have Family ANYwhere that's willing to help them if they just knew where they were.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 A lot of The Homeless came from Red States, it's too Cold or too Hot. They come to the Blue Cities for Compassion and better weather, but it's wearing thin now.
This countries gives billions to foreign governments but can't take care of its own people.
Hawaii's government has got to go. The way they're handling the homelessness is just pathetic. Overpricing everything that only caters to the rich and elite while showing no care for the poor shows how pathetic their government is.
Not trying to be rude BUT the Hawaiian Islands are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, most goods need to be shipped in by boat and that is expensive so things cost more. The Hawaiian government has no control over shipping costs. They have the same problem with prices in Alaska as shipping costs are high.
Lol.
Sounds like America not just one state
Always has been
Governor giving taxbreaking and benefits to he rich n elites, while other label as homeless and on welfare trying to get rid of them.
"We don't care where you go,
but YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!"
That about sums it up, doesn't it!
You don't have to go home...but you can't stay here.. a bartenders favorite line at 2:30 am....
It's closing time!
THIS IS NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM, IT'S JUST MAKING IT SOMEONE ELSE'S PROBLEM!!
The problem can not be solved. There will always be homeless, there will always be people taking advantage of the system. Throwing money at the problem does not fix the problem. It is a mess. If you have a strong family that loves each other and helps, the chances of being homeless goes down alot. If you are waiting for the government to do something, you will remain homeless.
@johnjay6370 In every state, there is a law that senior students studying psychology can not practice on actual patients until they graduate and has a veteran psychologist to sit in with their first patients.
Change those rules, and allow these senior students to practice on homeless people while being supervised.
A families love and appreciation can be replaced if the non family cares enough...this has been proven many times over because of the families splitting up in the past.
Start a program where the homeless work, where others don't want to, and offer them a small community of shipping container homes.
Allow them to run it themselves, but have at least one city council member from a nearby community there to keep a constant eye on them.
Drug dogs will be at the front gates, as well as breathalyzer test.
Give them one year to adjust through therapy and then shut down all local forest from overnight camping.
Never say a problem can't be solved,...without completely looking into the problem!
and don't think so much less of your neighbors than you do yourself!
You wouldn't like it if they did that to you.
@@valeriepickens2533 I wish it could be solved, but it is deep and very complex. I agree that we still have to try and solve it and out side the box thinking needs to be tried because what we are doing is not working. I do not think less of anyone if i sounded like that I am sorry. I have family members that will go homeless without family support, that is just a fact. They are autistic and will never be able to make it without help. That is why a family is so important. As a father I will never let my kids go homeless and they will always have a home as long as i am alive. Some families are not like that, and it is sad.
@AkitaMix, I may be wrong but do not think that the 100K is given to EACH homeless person, but the general fund to work this program.
What will you do for all the local Hawaii folks who are now homeless on the mainland? Will you buy them a ticket back home and help them get back on their feet? These mainlanders make this their 'vacation" by just flying back and forth and they always come back. But Hawaii folks long to come home but can't afford to. Invest in our people who rightfully belong in Hawaii.
@RE Lock 💯
@RE Lock yep lol
Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison will make sure they never will have a place to call home anymore.
Texas has been getting invaded for years by illegal aliens.... Be glad you're an island.
You sound prejudice
Hawaii has some of the most progressive policies. You need to keep them because you voted for this.
Are they voting for this? Or are the machines rigged?
Stop voting. Let em know you know they’re just lining their wallets anyway.
So they should vote for regressive policies? What's wrong with you?
Name a red state and I will show you homeless communities living in tents. Stop pretending that this is a "blue state only" problem - it's everywhere.
@@jessicatevnan3137 no they vote for this.
Once worked for mental health organization in Phoenix, Arizona. When winter would hit with snow and cold weather north and east of Arizona (talking all the way to the east coast), "Greyhounders" would start arriving. States with excessive homeless and/or mentally challenged individuals would buy them a one-way ticket to Phoenix on a Greyhound bus. Hawaii is now going to do the same thing it seems, but since a Greyhound bus isn't available, they'll fly them, give them some seed money and say "now don't you come back now, you hear?"
Can't imagine the recipient states are going to like any action like this.
I like how Hawaii is making it seem like they’re reuniting them back with their families. Are we that stupid? They don’t want it to be their problem any longer that’s why.
maybe they should address the unsustainable rents and home prices that has regular hawaiian families moving to cess pools like las vegas.
there's only so much land in Hawai'i.
@@TheJhtlag well send the zuckerbergs home and divide their land among the islander street gangs.
Grow up. The market sets those prices.
You grow up if you believe in some all knowing all powerful “market”
The same corporations who took hand outs from the government funded by tax payer money are now buying up the single family homes and raising prices to be unaffordable
They don't care about the people. They just want them out of sight when the tourists arrive
Okay, why don't you just take them into your home
duh
what I expected when I came to Honolulu was grass skirts and pristine beaches. what I experienced was gridlocked traffic jams and vast homeless encampments.
Hope you left Honolulu already?
Honolulu area has the beautiful Condo Jungle.
Great idea. Help them find next of kin, or rehab in their home state. We need to keep our resources for our people first. Hope this goes through
These lolo politicians crack me up! "We going send them back Mainland so they can be can with their familes"😂😂😂
Yayyyy hopefully they find my tweeker brother so he can come home to his family and rob my parents again oh joy ppphhhfffrrrttt
Lol and get back on their feet. Hey, lady! Wake up! It's time to get back on your feet 😊
So they can be with their families ? WhaT 😅
So they can go be homeless in some other place is more like it.. 😒
Being stuck on an island doesn't help.
Many of them come from Laguna Beach California. Laguna has been trying to get rid of its homeless to avoid a low income affordable housing state mandate.
wow, sounds progressive!
LOL…the Laguna Beach “homeless” problem is counted in the dozens. If you have ever been to Laguna, it’s stunningly beautiful and extremely wealthy with a median home at ~$2.5mm. If Laguna is sending their homeless anywhere - who are not from Laguna - then they’re prob spending $50 on a Uber and directing them back to LA. (Of course, most of LA’s homeless were sent there from other places across the US).
The “affordable housing” CA mandate is a tyrannical edict that applies to every city in the State no matter what the homeless population is.
As it should. Don't need the homeless, enabled by democrats, ruining another California jewel.
Gus, just like the Malibu scene in Big Lebowski 🤣
@@WN_Byers The Eagles fuking suck Man…
How does a homeless person, presumably living week to week, afford airfare to Hawaii ? Then presumably a cab downtown, where they just rock up to a shelter in time for a meal ? I must be missing something here.
Your NOT lol
Makes sense in my eyes. Hawaii is probably the most expensive state so you wouldn't want to pay local prices for food, water, housing, etc. From a purely cost viewpoint, the best way to afford it all is for all the states to pool their money together and just pick say the top 5 cheapest places to live and distribute them among those areas.
@@jakew1362 Exactly. These states have high salaries, high cost of living, etc. and so are wildly inefficient, funding-wise. Just doing a quick search on numbeo for cost of living difference between Honolulu and OKC gives us about 25% cheaper. Honestly, a very good savings rate, especially when we're talking about tens or even hundreds of millions. And that doesn't even account for economies of scale. Adding that, we're talking easily at least 30%, maybe more.
Back in 1972, there was a program like this in California, and they bought me and my friend a bus ticket to go back to Wisconsin, it was lovely, I was 18, and very happy to be back home.
now wisconsin sends you homeless to california
I could kind see this as a bunch of kids heading to Cali to say join the hippie culture and finding out it wasn't as true as advertised. So, maybe Cali could do that knowning it was a reality check for the kids and they wouldn't be back again. Sounds like that was you?
@@TheJhtlag Well yes in a way. I went back several times though, a little more prepared to be able to live there. The friend I got the bus ride though never went back. A friend I went out there with stayed and helped me more when I went out there the second time. So yes and no. I am sure it saved many people's lives too. I was surprised at how many offers I got to make money.... not in a good way.... and I am sure some people did it. By the third time I went out, I ended up living there for a few years, going to college, having a small house where my kids could run around outside a lot, it was much better than the first time!
I got a bus ticket back home from cali in the early 80’s. I was so happy not to have to hitchhike
@@cynthiajohnson6747 I am glad you are still here. Hitchhiking was fun most of the time, a lot of good people, but now that I am older, I realize what a foolish thing that was to do.
Hawaii is a settlement. No one is from Hawaii. Any human that goes to the islands deserves to live life as they please. Scary right? It's the same for the mainland. 20,000 people a month are crossing boarders with no jobs, and often no identity. Honestly at the boarder of Texas, Arizona, and California 5% of the people who enter should have to option of traveling to Hawaii. Before you freak out this statement is based on reality, and not emotion. That's why you may be triggered. My deepest apologies! Peace, love, and pomaikai
This was exactly happened in early 70s in California, they offered up to 10,000 to large families on welfare to leave for up to 10 years. My husband and I were stationed there in Air Force we could barley afford to eat. And knew quite a few families that relocated to Texas, They packed up cars,trucks,kids dogs and away they went. The first move they were given 3000 to move and then paid after 1 year. It made me angry then, does now. I live in a state that does same thing, these homeless show up with warm weather spring and then claim freezing starving conditions and want to go back home. They panhandle for money, but refuse food. Our town tells them to move on your not welcome, few stay,but I feel for the tax payers, we have no choice but to stay and pay high prices. When I lived in Arizona 14 years ago homelessness seemed a full time occupation for some. One such highway beggar on his site in Tempe raised 67,000 in cash. Just armed with small sign and freindly smile ,please help. I remember helping him drop off cold water, hot coffee and a dollar or two. But when the article came out that he was a student doing a thesis for his masters I felt duped. He donated all the money to local charities,but he hurt the community. They have really craked down on pan handlers but it's gone to far. Tent city is now tent state. Many go there for weather , hurting those that can't afford to live,or leave! People use to work for a living, now they pick a state and move,and maybe move again. I've been homeless,with small children lived in broken down cars,and empty buildings, but I worked my tail off to get out of that situation ,no one wants to work anymore! There are solutions but people don't like the answers. Get a job, work for food, if it isn't yours don't touch it. Being born entitles you to nothing. Share with less fortunate children and teach them how to work not take
"They panhandle for money, but refuse food".- that's because they're not starving. public policy is geared to drive down the cost of food and to drive up the cost of housing. there's hardly anyone alive that was around when it was typical for impoverished people in america to be severely underfed yet they still "feed the homeless". in fact offering food to homeless people is one of the least charitable things a person can do because it costs them so little because food is cheap.
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This is what oregon needs to do. So many homeless here come from Texas, Florida, etc. Take care of your own people.
This is called patient dumping, and it happens when an indigent person with considerable health problems becomes a financial burden to their community. The hospital or local government will put them on a bus or a plane, and when they arrive to that new area, they may get a paid night or two in a hotel before they're on the street. It's all designed to rid that hospital or municipality of the financial cost
And this is wrong? Then they shouldn’t be dumped here with a one way ticket to begin with. You and I agree.
Exactly!
BINGO 🎉 YAHTZEE 🎉
When you put it that way it is a genius move. 👍
It is what it is @@jasestrickland1704
Let's send homeless people to other states so we don't have to deal with them. No one's ever done that before
None of them are native to Hawaii 🤡 Hawaii has a housing and job shortage for native Hawaiians
Happens every year at the Super Bowl.
It's called Greyhound therapy
@Felix The Cat Actually, Nevada did that to California some time back.
Back in the 70s and 80s California sent their homeless to Hawaii. I’ve talked to them. Lived there for over 20 years , not homeless.
Im a trucker, see tons of homeless and homeless camps around the country.
I would say for many it is obviously addictions. That stuff costs money, and so they put the drugs or the alcohol as priority one, not rent, not keeping a job.
Then there are those that simply didnt have enough money saved for hard times and fell on hard times.
Im sure there are other categories, but these seem to be the main ones. So stay off drugs mmmk, and bank your money.
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here. Are they serious, thinking the homeless people are from the states?
Hawaii needs to find pono, forgive and move forward. ho'oponopono.
That's it! Ship them out and drop them on the doorsteps of other states. Great job, Hawaii....
are they also planning on revoking their 'sanctuary city/sanctuary state' status as well?
Sounds like they are helping them get home. Where they want to and have support
Some of the so called 'Sanctuary cities/states' turned them away remember?
@@mktay2067 exactly. It’s not like the rest of the US where you can just hop on a bus, train, or drive between states to get home if you’re in need of help. Flying is the only way.
@@RAdaltonracerthen maybe they should have thought about it more before arriving with a one way ticket. That’s just plain selfish entitlement.
Can swim
give them a purpose and put them to work
They don’t want to work they want to panhandle
My friend worked as an orderly at the psych ward at a hospital here on the BI and says most of the people get free tickets from towns on the mainland that just want them out of there not caring about what happens. We need to find out who and where, send them the back and bill those towns for the cost. It's taking away from what little resources our local homeless population have.
Hawaii should help these poor men, you are all the same countrymen .
Be careful Hawaii, the states may return the favor. In fact, TX needs to send Hawaii a few thousand illegals on a weekly basis. After all, Crazy Mazie, Hawaii's senator is always saying how great illegals are, but very, very few ever make it to Hawaii for that love from Mazie.
Mazie is not for "Hawaii's Kamaainas or Locals", her loyalty is to D.C!
Yeah but honestly illegals should just be made legal. I have jobs for them. I never met an illegal that wasn't looking for work.
Illegals work at least! They don't panhandling. They sell fruits or flowers. And American farm owners or business owners need them.
My daughter is 20 years old she left to homeless shelter because I told her she had to do some thing help in house cleaning or go to school or get a job not sleep all day long and then get up a 10 a night to eat and talk loud early the next morning & then go back to sleep until 10 pm again & again
Ma'am! What does your comment have to do with this article? Is she homeless in hawaii? If so, where in hawaii?
@@catchumifyoucan Her kid became homeless. Her story. I want to hear it.
@@catchumifyoucan i think her point is that a lot of homeless people are that way because they choose to be.
@@catchumifyoucan Probably not, but it illustrates a point. Typical millenial/post-millenial generation slacker-attitude, it feeds into the overall situation the country is experiencing now. Although some of them do work, but they demand their yoga meditation rooms, gourmet cafe bars, and massage breaks from their employers. Losers all the way around.
i have been to multiple islands in hawaii. i have spent lots of time there and have friends there. the homeless crisis is out of hand. such a shame. i have gotten my property stolen by homeless people on WAKIKI shore.
The theft is everywhere, and so is are the homeless! We have a heart issue here, people want everything fofree & they get it either begging or stealing
How can you be positive it was the homeless stealing your stuff? Hawaii has its fair share of locals committing crimes and always has.
Wish we could do the same in California. Most of our homeless come from our of state. Guess the warm weather and liberal policies are just too attractive.
ha ha .. the exact thought the native peoples had when the "white" man slaughtered them and stole THEIR ancestral lands
Liberal policies attracts what? Homeless. Lmaooo. I don’t see hard working families moving to comiefornia lmaooo
@@AntilleanConfederation It's Commiefornia, ya putz. If you're gonna put the state down, at least spell it correctly.
@@Teabahgeue in Spanish it has one N and the us has no official language. Comunista mal pario singao.
Mostly losers and illegal aliens moving to California; the plundered middle class people are leaving California en masse
I may save money and purchase a one-way ticket to Hawaii just to get a free ride back!
I look very homeless.
Beard
Bike
Backpack
Was thinking same thing, dirty clothes, old day pack sandals and little card board and marking pen lol
@@belleve5709 LMAO buying my ticket now. Gonna enjoy paradise, tent wherever, wash off in the river, 🤣
Hope you save enough money because gas in $4.59 gal.,bread is $5.39 and milk $7.25. Save your money to fly back in a week.
I used to work for Social Services years ago. Homeless people would travel up to northern states when it was warm as they paid way more in benefits.
Once it started to cool off they would make the trek south where it was warmer.
We called them "Welfare Snow Birds".
That happens in Colorado to California for weather. They camp out in Colorado in the summer then somehow get to California for winter
My sister's friend's cousin does this. Sonoma County pays the most but is cold in the winter. He goes to LA from November to April.
I guess when your homeless Hawaii does sound like a good place to be. It’s tough to say what I would or wouldn’t do. I know I would want to live somewhere safe and comfort to live outdoors.
I assume most houseless sleep with one eye open all the time.
Heck i have a cousin that refers to himself as a traveler. He has been all over the USA and Canada. Lives on the streets and backpacks all over. He returns home and tells all these stories about survival on the beach fishing and eating out of dumpsters. Has no interest on getting a job and being in the rat race. Funny thing is he is healthy as heck and fit
Sounds like a scumbag to me. 🐀 rats and raccoons eat out of garbage cans. Your cousin is a leech on society.
I worked in Hawaii years ago and if a person is going to be homeless , that's the place to be homeless. Great weather , food grows wild , lots of part time work .
And free range wild chickens roam around
@@bobbarker9556 Yup and all the fish you can catch .
@@nativestacker4185 No forget da mongoose and pigeons too
I love Hawaii. Been there maybe 6 times
Do not forget the tasty invasive prawns in the rivers.
Wish they would do that with people coming over the boarder
They do. Latest news that a dude was deported from the USA 4 times. The criminal keeps sneaking back in. Now he gets to stay - in prison for murder.
It’s “ BORDER “ ffs
What borders does Hawaii have ??
@@rhuephus none. That's why the homeless are there
@@rhuephus the ocean
States that participate in this should be taxed for every citizen they send
We have had programs like this for years, paying airfare to ship homeless people elsewhere. As a 60 year old, disabled, retired teacher & 27 year Kauai resident who was recently homeless for 18 months, how about using this money to provide safe haven land for homeless people to sleep & have access to toilets, showers, running water & electricity on every island? Having police officers keep telling homeless people to “go somewhere else, stay on the move, illegal to sleep in your vehicle” etc., when there is NOWHERE to go is unacceptable after so many years. With each county in the state a separate island, people are unable to walk, or drive, to another county for help. Kauai’s only shelter has 18 beds for hundreds of homeless people, with ridiculous rules & limits, keeping half those beds empty every night. Over a year on the waiting list, I never got one night in the KEO shelter. Hawaii needs to do better for all their residents, not just those on Oahu. And you can’t keep shipping people off, or telling them to leave, just to keep them out of sight & remove the eyesore of homeless humans in paradise. Hawaii’s people are not as stupid as you treat us. We see how every state in the country is helping homeless people except our own. Treat every human being with kindness & compassion and help those less fortunate, as if they were your own family member. Don’t just look away. We exist. We are part of humanity & a reflection of this community. We are a child of God, equally deserving of love, food & shelter. We give decades of our lives to improve our communities here in Hawaii just to be thrown out like garbage & treated like unwanted trash. Come on Hawaii politicians and people, you can do much better!!!💔
Man have not been there since 2004. I will buy a one way ticket, hang out a while, doing some camping, get a tan, snorkel, smoke some, drink coffee than when I am ready get a free ticket head back hopefully non-stop to my house in Texas.
I always imagined that if I was homeless, I would panhandle enough money to fly to Hawaii, or stow away aboard a ship headed there. Then I could build a small Gilligan's-Island-esque shanty out of coconuts and bamboo and survive off fish, macadamia nuts and guavas.
And, gang bang island women?
Lmaooooo
🤣🤣🤣🤣 These fools are lazy and looking for a hand out. Farming and fishing, wtf is that?
Sounds great, for a weekend!
I think that's how those guys got there. 😛🙂
These homeless thought they were going find easy street in Hawaii, but instead all they found was Kapahulu street.
And LOTS of native Hawaiians, not only those born thee but the actual indigenous Hawaiian people are being forced by insane prices to leave their island homes.
Uh, how do you "accidentally" end up in Hawaii? Took a wrong turn on the freeway?
Turned left at Albuquerque 😂
@@nhmooytis7058 I did it
It might be a little bit harsh, but if you don’t have a place to live, you shouldn’t be just wandering around an island Paradise turning it into a chaotic, trash dump. It shouldn’t be allowed to happen anywhere at least of all in a place like Hawaii.
@gfydrama The places they came from can deal with them as they see fit.
So you want to make it illegal to leave your state? Good luck with that!
I've been saying this for years! People need to be responsible for their own families! There ARE people who do want to be homeless. They choose it over going back to their families all the time!
Sometimes because their families are abusive.
Very good idea‼️
Please work hard on this. It's so much easier on the mainland. Hawaii is the most expensive state to live in. Housing is limited and very 💲💲💲🌴 Mahalo 🙏✌️🤙
How did the two Boston dudes get to Hawaii without any cash...What were they doing there that they couldn't do back in Boston... 🤔🤔🤔.. That's like a 12 hr flight right... Wtf..
They were avoiding freezing. All the cozy steam vents are claimed by tougher dudes than them. The T stations are full up, they get rousted out of South Station's rest rooms. Nothing for it but a Hawaiian vacation, maybe the dole is better in another Blue state/
Flights are less then $400 on certain days
Homeless In Honolulu...sounds like an 80s movie 🎬 Sleepless in Seattle.
😭😭😭
Lotsa room now in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. All the Walmart stores alone can house many folks.
I hope they don't send any to Martha's Vineyard. They'll be kicked out by the loving, tolerant citizens before they can get off the bus.
Wheres the Huge areolas guy
It's like a bot or something right?
He’s right above you😂
Hes in here. Hes always in here
Send him to the mainland, no return
@@heresteven or put him in aplace with no service or wifi 🤣
When I lose my home I think I'm gonna head over to Hawaii and clog up their social services for a change of scenery. Yeah, that would be nice.
Hawaii tried something similar decades ago. Hawaii told homeless that if they couldn't support themselves within X amount of time, they would be sent back where they came from. It was ruled unconstitutional.
On another note, there are probably many living in Hawaii who are illegal immigrants and in my long life time, I've only heard of one that was deported back to Mexico after living in Hawaii for over ten years!
… Imagine FLYING (paying money) to Hawaii, one of the most expensive states in America (and most isolated), and having no plan, no money, and nowhere to go? Make it make sense! What was the point?
December
Have these politicians driven down the Waianae coast lately ??? Every foot of beach space is taken up by a homeless “camp” !!!! How do you send them home they are local !!
They are sending non Hawaiian people home. Like the man from Boston who has a hard time moving his wheelchair through the snow.
Hawaii should sue the states of origin that sent their homeless to our shores.
Exactly! I heard those state give them a lump sum of money to bribe them to come here, a homeless person told me that, that's disgusting to hear for me. People literally peeing in the middle of the sidewalk, while I'm trying to walk to work, sleeping in the middle.
@@MarkDanger777 "you heard" yeah like that means its a fact. Dont be so gullible.
LOL, they can stay there.
Also Hawaii should sue for the U.S. illegal invasion of the island. Bring back the Queen Control of Hawaii. Kick out all the Haoles.
California is sending homeless to Nevada
'with thier families' translate this to 'drop em off and let them be someone elses problem'
how human.
Other states have been bussing homeless out of state for years. It’s not a new idea.
Cops ask the homeless where are you from? They say San Francisco or wherever? Do you have family there we can call? If yes they call them and ask if they are willing to help their homeless family member?
Once they confirm that help is available in the other state the city buys them a bus ticket out of town.
Genius idea.
Am confused, why is he there if he wants to be somewhere else.
This is an honest question from someone from a third world country: why is the US not building more shelters with programs on life skills training, substance abuse rehabilitation and employment assistance? A good program will probably get a few off the streets for good. I get the relocation solution if the homeless population are mostly refugees or illegal migrants, but that seems to be not the case.
Why don't you do it?
We r a third world country only the elities have money and the wealthy are the ones leading the country. People not born into wealth in the u.s are literally one pay check away from being homeless themselves. The u.s is a 3rd world country wearing a gucci belt
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.
Because then the people who work in the homeless ‘industry’ couldn’t make 6 figure incomes.
Because homelessness is a choice here in America. They want to live like that.
Do these people truly think that their families will support them when they haven’t supported them before? Many of these people have mental health issues, or addictions, and families have tried to help with no success. Some anre also veterans and this country owes them and should provide mental health care in housing. So many people believe that life should be happy and wonderful and when it isn’t, they turn to drugs, and that is their downfall. Some people don’t have families.
I’m from SoCal and are poverty is 3rd world level due to the amount of homeless people that come and live here. It has crippled out infrastructure and the state simply cannot handle the amount of homeless. It’s beyond control.
I believe CA should do what HI is doing and send people home. Homeless people should be able to utilize resources in their home states.
Hope services pays people over $300,000 salary to keep homeless people homeless. This grift brought to you by Catholic charities.
CC the most evil company out there
How's Q?
they are licking their chops at the border, the bottomfeeders.
Ahh yes, the homeless-industrial complex. It makes money out of making and keeping people homeless.
Exactly. My parents contributed to Catholic Charities for years. I called CC when I had breast cancer and was broke and they blew me off. The Salvos helped me keep my utilities on.
I think that's a great idea, however.... How exactly do the Hawaiian authorities think people from the mainland got there to begin with? Great sending them to the mainland but if they want Hawai'i, they will just fly back to Hawai'i
Get rid of the airports so everybody want to go Hawaii has to surf there. No know surf, no can go Hawaii. Dats it.
@@BOOBI123you don’t know much about surfing do you
You will need a passport or Real ID to board a plane starting next week. If they go back to the mainland and lose their ID it will be very hard to get back to Hawaii. Mine expired and it was a pain to renew.
@@jeretso you don't say. Smh
Instead of taking responsibility for the housing crisis here in hawaii, the government chooses to blame the states, further fueling the segregation and the racism here.
I was thinking about trying to buy a condo in Hawaii but the island pricing everyone to homelessness. Unfortunately, it’s happening in the mainland for popular areas. Let’s deal with the first issue in America it starts with mental illness and education at all levels.
🤣 The weather in Boston is just too rough for him. Oh my word, it’s like an episode of “Picky Beggars”
How about using the enormous budget surplus to house people who live here instead of spending money to help families in other states.
Why? That money can be used to help people who actually deserves it or improve the living conditions of those that actually paid taxes and not these A-holes who failed at life.
@@InsiderBoy so you think the people that work hard for their money and had it taken from them by the Hawaiian government don't deserve the fruit of their labors? You sound like you would be really at home with the way that the government philosophy is in California. I'm talking to people that unlike you actually have jobs and pay income tax in this place.
It is cheaper to send them to the contious USA
Not much space on an island
Americans all have the same rights.
nobody is getting helped either way. even this solution is just to make them another state’s problem. i doubt they are stringently checking there are relatives at the destination
Chicago is paying $25 Million a month to house the incoming migrants. And Hawaii only pays $100,000 annually to fly them back? Where is the Love and Support, that Chicago's Mayor-to- be Brandon Johnson, says we all need?
We were stationed in Hawaii in back in 1990 and again in 2000. It was truly a paradise. We came back for a visit in 2019, we were shocked by the number of homeless people. And the smell of weed was everywhere 😢 very sad indeed.
This should of happened many years ago! Great idea!
The problem is that for every legit homeless person that is there on the streets and is trying to find a way out, there are a thousand that are there voluntarily. They either have severe mental problems, ane drug addicts, or a combination of both. The vast majority of these people choose to be where they are and won't stay clean. Anything you do for them or give them is enabling their addictions. Life is not going to lay down for anyone or anything.
Bingo! Very hard to fix a broken person.
The truth no one acknowledges: as world population grows, as robotics handles most of the heavy lifting jobs, there is no way every adult can have a job. Not feasible or probable. Most of the world WILL be unemployed, which means most will not be able to afford housing. Don't you think it would be good idea to start planning now, rather than just reacting and sweeping things (people) under the rug?
Most homeless are mentally ill or have alcohol and drug addiction.
I have a ton of jobs. Honestly there are on average 300 hours of work available within 10 feet
@@thomastaylor8657 if you read again, closely, you will realize I am talking about the future. The Future. Not the present. Not Now. Sadly most that work multiple jobs, where I live (perhaps not were you live), either barely make a living or barely sleep. I know grandparents working more to help kids that are also working. We are getting paid less for the same job or for more work. It is very difficult. Now....envision 50...40...30...even 20 years into the future. Automated factories and trucks and shipping. Higher and higher rents. More expensive less healthy food. And a population maybe close to 12...15 billion. 2/5 of adult age and able to work. Does not look good!
Jobs are not static.
@@bashirijones7008 world population to top off at 10.4 billion in 2080 and then go down.
During the covid travelers coming into Hawaii needed to provide an address. Each day there were passengers stopped by the gate agent because they couldn't provide an address not even a hotel or a 24 fitness address on the form... You don't realize how many people are coming in every day since the restrictions were left...
Maui was pretty bad with homeless when we went a few weeks ago. But so is almost everywhere. Need to help more than sending them off to other states to be their problem. I’m sure the cheapest way that they’ll do this is to send them to California, which would be terrible. No help here in this state for them, that’s for sure.
This has to happen. I believe people have a right to go where they please, but people do not have a right to travel for the sole purpose of being a hobo on the streets. If you are a hobo, be a hobo where you are, and get help from the people who made you into a hobo. It's like knocking on the door of a distant relative and asking if you can crash on the couch, eat her food, and driver her car once in a while, indefinitely. f that. Once this is a success, move onto the hippies from out of state, who make their homes on public land and leave a mess when they move from one place to the next. The hippie encroachment is a double-layer of theft from native Hawaiians.
Yes this is what they do to LA. Tired of all the homeless coming to LA from the colder states and taxing Angelenos to spend BILLIONS for homeless.... Building them tiny 350 sq ft apartment costing over $700,000
@@72marshflower15 They're not possessing it. They're just using it as if it was their own until, leaving their trash, and moving onto the next site.
So NIMBY
Hobo. What a quaint, antiquated word. Homeless vermin is what they are. Human leeches sucking the blood right out of productive members of society.
@@michaelashby9654 I believe in community and despise interlopers who take advantage of community. The thing is, they already had a backyard, but they liked the sunnier, greener backyard of someone else's home. If you are in Seattle or hail from there, you know a little bit about the hobo carpetbaggers who made that beautiful city into a tent town. If you're an old timer, you probably heard the "yo-momma" jokes about 1st and Pike. Back then, you could drive through that area, and there might be one or two discreet hobos. It's an infestation now.