Thank you for helping with this tragedy that should have never happened! USA legally it's not your "state" and you admitted that in Public Law 103-150 which states Hawaiians never got reparations .. where are the reparations? The Hawaiian Kingdom still exists legally ... Set Hawai'i Free!
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I’m born and raised in Hawaii and it hurts that more people I know and grew up with can’t live here anymore. Hawaii isn’t Hawaii without its local people.
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As an Asian-American born and raised on the mainland, I feel so much sadness for the native Hawaiians. I didn’t even learn the depth of Hawaii’s history in school. It was not until I was an adult that I learn the true, unfiltered history of Hawaii. It’s just so sad what has happened and what is happening.
I was fortunate to visit Hawaii once and I’ll never go again. It’s extremely hard to be served by native people and see them living in poverty and enjoy a vacation. This is a conversation that needs a lot more attention and I appreciate this video
This is how it was in all the Americas 😢 natives never mattered to the Christian European colonization, 2nd class humans, killed or enslaved and those who “adapted” and got “civilized” are still 2nd class… they keep taking all resources till this day… ships loaded with gold,silver, all kind of goods back in the day and now the actual land.
@Aron Toulouse totally agree. This applies not just for Hawaii but for other states and countries as well. Ever since I tried Airbnb in 2018, I have never stepped foot inside another hotel room. It feels good to know that our money goes to the local population instead of a multinational hotel chain. (I’m aware that Airbnb takes a percentage of the pay as well, but they do need the money keep the app running!) Some people might argue “but hotel chains employ local people as well!”. But you know what? The bellboys and waiters and janitors are not really given fair wages. Many of them have to work a second job to survive. Meanwhile, Airbnb hosts are allowed to set their own nightly rates...whether it is $20/night or $300/night, it’s totally up to them.
I moved to hawaii with my roommate at 18, less then one year later my best friend and I need to leave the island because prices here are astronomical and wages are less then 12 an hour. Our apartment is a closet sized room and we can not even afford that. Unfortunately many Hawaiians are just forced out or forced to turn to government help and it’s so sad.
What were you thinking moving there is the first place?? I make a substantial salary and I still wouldn't move there because I know I would only be able to rent a condo. You need to do your research in advance.
I moved there in 2002ish with 3k, lived relaxed and worked till 2009 when I moved back to CA. Life was great, rent was very affordable and I worked a normal 40hr week. My last year I did overtime and saved all I could and left with 23k. But that was 2009, and I was on Oahu. Want a better Hawaii, stop voting blue.
This makes me so angry and just disgusted! As an American, I’m ashamed of how the government treats the natives!!! It’s THEIR land!!! Not one single native should EVER be homeless. Why isn’t this all over the media!!! We need to bring awareness to this!
@@bannockchief actually bro, you are just plain wrong. the reason hawaiians have lost their homes and land, is because of the governments property taxes. Rising home values SHOULD make natives rich, but instead, because of government property tax, they lose their homes, because they are forced to either sell the home or work a higher paying job to pay the government. But most of the time, they cannot find a higher paying job, so they have to sell the home, then as the property values increase after they sold, they are further and further priced out of the market. ALL because of taxes. Please please please, study and learn this stuff before making idiotic statements about capitalism. Do you know what the world was like before capitalism??? it was called the dark ages for a reason
As a Cherokee man must I remind you of the trail of tears. What we allow to happen to some will eventually happen to all, we must stand up for each other we are all we got!
Stand up for the Blacks the Cherokee enslaved. You are no better than the white man only less efficient at doling out misery. Heck you are Cherokee and probably white anyway.
@@jamesmorton5017 As a Native must agree. The Cherokee Nation finally accepted them as citizens. The Cherokee not only betrayed black Natives but other Natives. Some were sell outs.
@Shon East Mexicans are native to North America and are descendants of native North American tribes even if you meant that as a joke you sound ignorant.
@@GravityButterfly The Mexican empire conquered many of the tribes that were native to the western part of North America. Let's know our history. Also, Mexico created a systematic process called 'Mestizaje' with a goal of lightening the population and creating a Mexican ethnic identity. Let's not play this "Mexicans are indigenous" game. It's a smokescreen that a lot of mestizo Hispanics use to practice erasure of indigenous culture.
This is heartbreaking. While the rich keeps getting richer, the poor gets poorer. This is happening every where, not just in Hawaii. People in other states or even countries are experiencing the same. I hope they find a solution to these problems soon.
@Aloha not to mention they also almost completely destroyed our culture, polluted our oceans, and killed off our native species, our ancestors took good care of this 'aina and now it's being destroyed.
Aloha there’s no such thing as a sacred site or burial ground, that’s not real. Your imaginary indigenous shit and superstition mean nothing to anyone. You don’t seem to know anything about your own history either as the things you mentioned are the least of what the US did. You’re fake.
I'm native to Hawaii and was born and raised there for 12 years. Me and my parents are from Waianae and recently moved 2 years ago due to the high pricing. It was even sadder since my brother had just gotten into Kamehameha and me and my older brother were to be attending the year after. Even though I was excited to move, I still really do miss my family and friends back at home. Moving to the states is like being in another country, and the move was hard. I don't blame my family though because they did what was best for us. If you do visit hawaii, go to the more local spots and see just how much homeless there is. It's heartbreaking, I was just lucky not to be in that situation as a kid. Hawaii isn't just beautiful beaches and shaka's, there's more struggle here then you'll ever know.
It is the evil elites biden is flooding all America with illegals across the boarder cities across America have drug addicted homelessness popping up everywhere I hope the Hawaiian people don’t get hooked on drugs that is also manufactured by government you see it worst in democrat ran states
@FRANK LA FORGIA Are you insinuating the guy that threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans would've done better to stop the ultra rich from buying up native land and building hotels.. Or are you like the rest of us and wish someone else, like Tulsi of Hawaii, won?
This isn't just happening in Hawaii, this has been happening in the pacific for a long time. Native Maori in New Zealand also experience this same issue that the Hawaiians are facing and either move to Australia or where ever is affordable living conditions far from there ancestral lands. Mostly Auckland where the price of living has grown astoundingly.
Happens every where....Supply and demand...key is to buy and never sell...keep a good job...pay your taxs....keep up your properties....save your money......there is no free lunch...well there is but its not worth eating
@@Steven-mm7gb the white mank system isn't working when it forgets it's indigenous people. The Lord's judgement is upon those who grind the faces of the poor. In other words those high-minded people who think they can rub the noses of the poor in their own poverty are asking to be made an example of. This indictment is inescapable.
Even I can't move back to Auckland. I spent my whole life there but I moved to Christchurch because it was more affordable but I wish I could just go home where my friends and family are. South Auckland is so rough and far away we would downgrade to an old sick house worth nearly a million for our brand new warm house in Canterbury just to be close to where we grew up and our friends and family. We lived in Papakura for 4 years, we were sick all the time, the mold hiding within the walls... Im not spending over a million for neighbours who start riots and beat their dogs.
@@melancholycollie1466 your argument about papakura vs chch house affordability is completely irrelevant now with soon to be insane high interest rates and hyper inflation including global supply chains slowing down. Like I said before the corrupt white mank system ain't working
Why is no one calling it was it is??? It's greed fueled by landlords and homeowners. People say it's due to inflation or supply and demand. But when wages are stagnant for people everywhere and homeowners forcibly raise rent prices, that is the key problem. There's no one to blame but the people who own these buildings. Landlords give nothing back to society but take take take
We can all thank the great motivational speakers and success coaches like Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Hawaii's own Rob Kiyosaki for that mindset.
Recently, rentals are being doubled and tripled in price. It was already so bad and now with so many people becoming homeless, folks losing their homes due the pandemic, folks that own their homes outright getting upside down because taxes have gone up so fast and ridiculously, “investors” are snapping up properties and making it so so SO much worse. It’s greed. It’s capitalism. It’s disgusting. It’s so frustratingly wrong.
@Hapa Boy *unchecked* capitalism. Everyone should have the opportunity to make money, but not at the cost of others like that. There need to be checks and balances
This video seems to have a lot of impact and a lot of people realize the living situation we are in. Big corporations have taken the “Hawaiian Lifestyle” and marketed it to tourism. If you visit, just keep this in mind: - Go to the small locally owned businesses - Be respectful. The people of Hawaii are so nice, if you are nice to us. - Don’t ignore boundaries and go places or do things that are not allowed. As locals, we get the short stick because of the actions of people who don’t even live here. We invite you to our home, so long as basic respect is had.
@@ke4692 Just a note for people since this video has a large reach. There is no doubt that Hawaiians should be serious about this and preserve the little that is left from our culture. If you want local families to win, then local business must be brought to light. The respect portion is simply a reminder to respect our people and aina when visiting. there is nothing wrong with that, and I am left confused as to why you are questioning it. If you are not from Hawai'i, you should understand that the majority of tourists are sucked into tourist traps set up by large mainland US corporations. It is well known out here that a vast majority of tourists have no boundaries and will intrude into peoples personal lives, trespass on property, and do illegal shit that we get to face the consequences for. How many hikes, fishing spots, and beaches have to get monitored/closed off to public access because people that aren't even from here abuse it? It simply doesn't make sense to skip an opportunity like this. If a video by a fairly large content creator attains a large audience that is mainly not from Hawai'i, but likely to visit, why wouldn't you say the above statement? It is hard to have a voice from Hawai'i on a national scale. We are so isolated that this is one of the only ways to remind people to please not act like a dumbass, and to support local business who need to support. Hawaii can do this on its own, but the first step is having a government that values Hawaiian tradition and values. Its a shame that our leaders place priority on mostly people the state will see once and never again.
Born and raised in the islands. Still live here. I consider myself a pretty level headed and hardworking guy but this is truly what’s happening here. I have a little Hawaiian in my blood and have many friends that are nearly 90% or more hawaiian blood in them. Trust me when I say this. Even the so called “Hawaiian” organizations are entangled in the greediness of the whole circle of corruption. Seen it and have even close relatives that’s involved. Hard to take in but it’s true. MONEY TALKS. I’ve been to Tahiti back in the early 2000’s and that trip made me and my wife tear up. All the locals were pushed away from the coastlines and live in poverty in the countryside’s/mountainous areas. Million dollar homes popping up all over the place. That trip opened our eyes because that outcome that we witnessed was exactly what was happening to our home back in Hawaii. Fast forward to 2022. It’s here and it’s really bad. We are fortunate to own our home and some properties. We’ve been saving up for so many years to prepare ourselves for this crap. Sacrificed alot during our younger years to buy property while in our early 20’s then bought our 1st home 7yrs later. In this present day, the value of real estate has tripled even quadrupled in the past 3 yrs. Even with what we have and working our asses off, we still struggling. The rich and wealthy don’t give a dam. It’s me me me, take take take…… My thoughts and hopes for all who try their best to make it in this place we call home. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😔
interesting. Owning real estate is such a big marker for generational wealth. I grew in the projects in NYC to a single mother raising 3 boys. No real assets, and now own some properties. We also work our asses off - I have 3 jobs, but I can tell that just owning a piece of property during inflationary times really sets some folks up in another category altogether.
Disgusting. This is what all the gentrification did to the San Juan Islands in Washington. The people who were residents there and had lived there for years and years were forced out of their homes because people build houses and priced everybody out of the market. My heart goes out to the people of Hawaii
Okoboji Iowa, small sleepy lake town with cottages that have been in families for GENERATIONS are being torn down and Mcmansions being put in their place. Sickening.
I am so heartbroken at this situation. I was born and raised here in Hawaii and in my 37 years here it’s gotten harder and harder for native islanders to live in the place we are born. And it’s even more painful for native Hawaiians because they have ancestral roots here also. But during the last 5 years it has started exploding. Outside investors keep buying up properties here and the prices are going up at a disgusting rate. The government needs to make a law that you cannot buy a home here unless you have lived here for a certain amount of time. I understand free market, supply and demand etc. but the consequences of this continuing this way is that we will all have to leave and this place will just be an island for the ultra wealthy. It will loose what is so magical about Hawaii. People who understand Aloha, Pono, people of honor and integrity that respect the land, the sea, and the culture. I am in tears that to our own government money is more important than the soul of the islands. And the people who understand this place and actually care about this place, the people who belong here.
I have lived in Hi for over 60 years. This is what happens, a family buys a house many years ago. Parents die and children don't want to live together in the house so it sells. Kids sell house at market rate so the price is higher. New family buys house and parents die and kids sell house at market rate and the price goes up. Regulations are insane and price to build new housing is insane so prices go up. Locals have little family motivation to do well in school so they mostly get nowhere in life and have little income. Sooner or later the price is high enough that only people that have higher income jobs can afford housing. State is anti business so making a great income with a small business is almost impossible. State is a "Nanny State" and wants to regulate just about everything you do. Cost of living is also high. Keep voting for those who raise taxes and regulate and it will only get worse but they keep drinking the kool aid.
@@bkailua1224 It's not just in Hawaii. In Canada British Columbia, Seattle, everywhere homes are so expensive that it's almost incomprehensible. Nice homes in my neighborhood are closer to 1 million and I'm in the suburbs near water. For Hawaii, it's obviously a little worse due to the location. I don't think it's a good idea to make land laws for Hawaii but giving the Natives a reservation would be a good start. Although it causes crime, they will at least have a home.
This is happening to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 as well. Cost of living is outrageous in the island and Puerto Ricans don’t earn enough to keep up and we are being remove from our island little by little! Hawaii we are with you! ✊🏻
This is so true I have been trying to tell my Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 people that once we become a state they are going to remove the native Puerto Rican off our Island 🏝 it's already started and it makes me very sad 😔
I'm sorry to hear. As a African American, I want to learn more. Can I ask a question... Honestly, who causing this to happen?? Rich white people? Corporations?
@@d.kj.n1392 rich Asians, white people, Jews, and native people who sell land and property to the aforementioned big three darlings of gentrification. Rich European whites, moneyed Jews and Asians.
@@getshorty7549 that makes sense. I visited Hawaii several years ago and I was confused on why there's so many damn white Americans/Europeans and some Chinese living the good life while the native people were living average or far below average... I truly hate seeing stuff like that
That one woman was so right when she said Hawaii was stolen. It was never purchased, it was overthrown. No Native Hawaiian should ever be homeless. I lived there for 5 years and saw so many back in the mid to late 90's, living in tents on the beach. That is just not right. I am glad that I don't live there anymore because it was so expensive and I just got tired of struggling and moved back to the Mainland. But if you are born and raised there generation after generation, you should not be struggling and you certainly should not be homeless.
All land is stolen, that's kinda history. Power struggles. Hawaiians killed or took from the people who came before them. Then America took from Hawaiians because America was the stronger military power
The land was stolen? Who gave it to them? Where is their deeds? All these people should of ALREADY had their chit together, with their SUPPOSED land, that they already lived on with a home. And shouldn't they be blaming the greedy Hawaiian's that are selling their pre-existing homes for $500 per sqft....when they could be selling it for just a minor profit of $100 per sqft to another Hawaiian opposed to racking in fat cash from a main lander/outsider buyer? Blame the Hawaiian's who looked to make ONLY CASH, because of greed, selling their property that high and not comphrending the results. Who ended up selling their homes that high? It wasn't leprechauns, Greeks or unicorns...it was Hawaiian's.
I'm one of those who left my home on Oahu to afford to live here on the mainland. Every single day, I regret my decision. It's been 10 years now. A comparison for some who don't understand. On my last trip home a couple months ago, I looked at the value of the house my family lives in and it is around $700k. The house is trash, needs to be knocked down and made a new. It's just over 800 sq/ft, 3 bedrooms. After living here on the mainland, I finally bought a house for myself at $309k for 1500 sq/ft. People always ask me, "Why would you leave Hawaii?" The answer is simple, I was priced out of my home. People there aren't homeless, they are house-less. Hawaii is our home.
Wow. It’s almost impossible to own, unless u got a really good paying job. But 700k is impossible for typical person, that’s like 2 k of mortgage a month…Me and my husband and 3 kids left California about a yr ago. Cheapest houses r 600k and it’s like 2 bedrooms and they look bad. Milk is almost 5 dollars a gallon gas is almost 5 as well. These beautiful states r being taken away from the typical person…. I miss cali everyday but I don’t regret our decision we rent a modern house with 3 beds for 1k a month. We are hoping to buy soon as well.
@@birdlover7776 Indiana next to Chicago.. we got a 3 bedroom house with backyard we pay 1k a month. Same Happened to us we had no choice but to think what’s better for our kids
This breaks my heart. I love Maui it’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. I hate that these people are being run out of their home, it’s terrible. I didn’t understand why the locals didn’t like us very much. But I I fully understand. I’d feel the same way too
My Great Auntie was born and raised in Hawaii. She said the locals don't like people from the mainland because to many people from the mainland are disrespectful of people and the land.
Its being done to mostly people of color...Took land for Black Americans Native Americans and now these Hawaiians...what a shameful thing they continue to do to people of color.
@@elizabethschreffler9182 it true my dad said the island and the ocean were pristine and beautiful before the tourist came thru and damage the environment it really bad, and as a Hawaiian it hurt to see the animal and the environment being disrepected. I'm not surprised when the US did admit to illegally occupying Hawaii and look what happening to Hawaiian they have to leave because they made sure it hard for us to live in our home.
This is heartbreaking. I will be moving to Hawai’i this fall to begin my master’s degree. It’s devastating to see that essential redlining and genocide is not just present in my own city with my own people, but people all over the U.S. and the world. Thank you for sharing.
This is so sad. My husband and I are born raised Hawaii on Oahu. We were priced out when he in his 50s (far from retirement) got two cancers and a stroke and no longer able to work. Had to leave our beloved Hawaii for his medical care. When he passed I tried coming home but quickly realized I could not afford rent, not even a 360 sq foot studio in Waikiki. Honestly. I have contemplated returning and living out of my vehicle too. I don't have Hawaiian blood but my friend in Kalihi has 63% and still she cannot get homestead land. It's so wrong. I feel frustrated for my situation, but I feel for my Hawaiian brothers and sisters more because the land belongs to them.
@@msi8311 not really. That’s a tired old line that the USA has repeated to itself to justify the continued settler colonial project here. Japan attacked Hawaiʻi because the USA had military bases here. That’s all.
its ALL corporate paperwork, greed, lies and evil ways; NOBODY or NOTHING OWNS ANYTHING - yet the PEOPLE of the LAND should NEVER be removed and NEVER have to PAY.....NOBODY should - Its TIME 2 BRING the ENTIRE LYING SICK SYSTEM DOWN!
@@msi8311 I rather belong to Japan because we got good relationship and have family with them too plus their anime, technology, and cordial behavior is cherry on top. Whereas US admit to forcibly illegally occupied Hawaii and more focus on displacing Hawaiian.
This situation of pushing out native peoples from their homeland through a variety of means is a tale as old as time. It has happened with indigenous peoples on the mainland but it's also happening around the globe. It is absolutely wrong on every level and morally repugnant.
Truth is even in America the pricing of houses has gone up so much that alot of American citizens cannot afford it. Even renting to get a half way decent apartment not even real fancy, It is going to cost $900 to $1000.00 or more. I have been hearing that this is happening all over in different countries. Everything is high no matter where we live. And it is making it harder for the poor and even the middle class. Life is uncertain, and times may get harder but I am thankful to know JESUS CHRIST as my personal SAVIOUR. My faith and trust is in HIM. For this world is not my real home. I am looking and waiting for JESUS TO COME.
This is so far beyond “taking indigenous lands” though…. The Hawaiian Kingdom is its own internationally recognized country. We have our own constitution, currency, laws, courts, healthcare etc etc… the US CLAIMS it annexed us, but it didn’t, we’ve been ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED by the US for 130 years. Every “land sale” is theft AND a violation of international law called pillaging.
As someone of native Hawaiian descent, this is the sad reality of life in Hawaii. I am fortunate enough to own a home, but like many other Hawaiians or locals, its only because I inherited it. Otherwise there'd be no way I'd be able to buy a home in this market. Inheritance is pretty much the only way to home ownership for many native Hawaiians, you have to be lucky enough to have had ancestors who bought property in the past when it was still affordable. That or Hawaiian homelands but dont get me started on the debacle
@@Bluhlots of Hawaiians live in big family, sharing money amongst others. My family was pretty poor 30 years ago, but they racked up quite a lot with everyone in their family.
Minimum wage: $12/hour Zillow homes for sale: $800k up to nearly $43 million in Maui Gas in Hana: $6.50 per gallon Groceries: Foodland Farms $10 milk Full blooded Native Hawaiians: less than 5,000 Golf Courses in Hawaii: 75 Acres golf courses take: ~200,750+ acres Houseless-ness: highest rate in all of America History: Maurice J. "Sully" Sullivan was an immigrant from Ireland who moved to Hawaii and was the co-founder, with See Goo Lau, of Foodland Super Markets, the largest and only locally owned supermarket chain in Hawaii Invasive species: caucasians
@@EdiMeanG “their”, and many times they don’t have a choice. The pacific islands are in a choke hold by a corrupt government. It’s the same way on Guam. It’s disgusting, and the island natives pay for that corruption. While Americans reap the benefits. The military has taken hold of every pacific island, and has not done well with those islands. I could start to list all the crap we do to them.. but I think you get the gist.
@@skellingtonmeteoryballoon Clearly you have never lived in Hawaii. Me and my husband both have college degrees and still have a hard time purchasing a home in Hawaii. Our medium price single family home is over $1,000,000 on the island of Oahu. He owns a business and I’m a real estate agent. Making $100k a year is hard with a family of 4 to purchase a home and not a townhouse with a $700 a month maintenance fee in addition to a $2800 mortgage.
@@NamelessVoice808 just out of curiosity, do you tithe 1/10th of your income. I used to live at ala kapuna st. And learned about Pete Nelson and his work since I relocated, thinking that'd be the ideal way to live in the island trees 🌴 The Lord has me planted in the mainland though. Aloha to you.
This happening throughout the United States, though Hawaiians are probably experiencing this the worst. Half the problem lies in investment firms (foreign and domestic) that buy up the land and build expensive condos and drive up the price. You have investment firms from China, Japan, Russia and the Middle East doing this, as well as investment firms like Blackrock and others in the US doing the same thing.
This is the root cause. But it will never be mention because local politicians tend to get paid off by these firms and/or benefit from the development by awarding contracts.
And they are buying land everywhere. I have seen comments on other channels that Ireland is another place that is losing available land bc of foreign buyers. The global market push is to blame. It's time for every country to ban foreign buyers from owning any land especially farming land. All of the USA used to have zoning laws that were upheld where you couldn't buy a property and make it an airbnb, you had to live there, not anyone else. And all the land in one area could not be bought up by one person. Things need to go back to that. NYC used to have rent controlled apartments, where the gov't didn't allow rent to be raised. Sounds like all local govt's need to do this, then investors will leave voluntarily.
@@catara99 Too late! If you want to know where the smart money is (and always has been), it's land. Bill Gates is buying a ton of it right now. He knows what is coming.
I understand what the people of Hawaii are going through. I am Puerto Rican and I own a beautiful house with a view of the beach but lately most of the homes in my area have been sold to people in the US for much more than they are worth here. So many Puerto Ricans can't afford to buy a house because people from outside are raising the price of homes. I'm lucky I own my home .
It's even happening in northwest Florida now. Locals can't afford homes and utilities the way they once could, because people moving here from other states have driven prices so high. I am from here, but I'll be moving. It's beginning to look like South FL now.
If I could,I would go to Puerto Rico,and buy hundreds of houses and sell them for normal prices to families from there .I would keep doing it if I could .Why don't some of these richest 1% do this I wonder? They have a disgusting,obscene amount of money that they could never spend,but they want more money! Disgusting people who have zero humanity
I wish there was more videos like this to bring awareness to this situation. I have native hawaiian blood and not once have I nor my family ever got any assistance. My mom was a police officer with hpd for 17 years and for six years now, she's been homeless living across rhe street from a'ala skatepark. The blatant corruption there is beyond disgusting. And it's heartbreaking that these topics are so quick to be silenced there. As much as I miss my home, I have so much more resources available to me here in Seattle. I hope Hawai'i will change someday to actually care for it's locals.
That is heartbreaking to hear. Of all people, she should not be homeless. When I lived there, there were many Hawaiian's that were living at Makua Beach and Waimanalo Beach. I would guess that they were all thrown out because of tourism. Now I see why some locals were so unfriendly to tourist and Mainlanders when I lived there. Get a one way ticket for your Mom and have her come live with you.
@@pakababy3710 I grew up there, I don't live there now. I left in 1976, and have not lived there since. Like one person's kids asked, "come live with us on the mainland." I live on the mainland because I can't afford to live there even on Oahu. The other thing is that these people are living on the outer island which is extremely more expensive. I live in a 4 bedroom 2400 sq ft home in California that I bought for $220,000. There are other places to live, so they need to stop complaining. Have you ever lived there? And yes, Democrats have always ran the politics there in Hawaii, and look at the place now. It is just like SF which is turning into a toilet.
@@pakababy3710 buddy are you serious? prices are just too high so I'll have a home while my moms on the street? cmon. I live in CA, shits expensive, but id work day and night to not have the woman who cared for me living on the streets, id pay for a 1 bedroom studio, put her in it, and be homeless myself before I let that shit happen. Lazy people at the end of the day
This is happening all over the USA. Yet no discussion about upzoning or developing in a non-autocentric way to bring costs down. Lots of shots of wide roads lining single family homed streets really brings the point home...
They are doing this in a town close to mine namesld Clovis and basically most houses are being bought by investors then turned into Airbnb vacation rentals. All the locals moved out and continue to do so because it’s so expensive
Back in the early seventies, when I was a university student, I knew three Hawaiians who had come to the Mainland to live and raise their kids BCOZ they told me even back then Hawaiians couldn’t afford to live in their own homeland - This report details exactly what they told me forty years ago.
I've always wanted to go to Hawaii and haven't done so yet. I'm so glad I saw this first. I'm not going unless this gets better, and I can exclusively support indigenous people and indigenous-owned businesses. This situation is absolutely absurd. It's time for history to stop repeating itself 😡
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Until I turned 23, I wasn't really working earning alot of money and stayed with family and friends. It motivated me to join the military and get out. Now I'm retired from military and moved to Texas. It's sad my wife and I can't move back because it's like a step backwards in our life. We go and visit Hawaii every year though.
@@andrewfreeman88 Yeah well modern plumbing is also a privilege. Many people in the world don’t have toilets with running water. Do you remind yourself of your bathroom privilege every time you take a crap? Lol.
That is disgusting. In New Zealand we have a homelessness problem due to housing cost and shortages too. The government is spending millions housing people in motels so that no NZers have to live in their cars. They have banned overseas buyers and non-residents from buying land or property in NZ. They are building new social housing, and giving money to Iwi (Māori tribes) to build Kainga Ora homes - high quality new social housing for Māori. Our current government has a lot of senior politicians who are Māori, and are keen to keep their electoral seats designated for Māori voters, so they are putting a lot of resources towards this. Some Iwi are also building their own kainga ora housing on their ancestral land, with some government support. The tribes are wealthy and influential business people due to their Treaty of Waitangi legal settlements with the government.
hopefully America wakes up and be more like the NZ government. They are not keen on preserving precious Hawaiin culture at all. It's funny because US is pretty aggressive preserving national parks and fauna and flora of the country but not the culture of its natives
the other side of it is why should anyone be paying to house minority groups just to keep them an active constituent group making further unreasonable demands.
@@Aaron565 because as a society we value human culture. That's why we have museums and protect native fauna and flora. Housing minorities (indigenous peoples) helps to preserve their culture since one of their basic needs (housing) is met. Countries love to be prideful of their culture and traditions and NZ is no different same. I'm not gonna speak about this unreasonable demands you speak of since I do not know or have heard about anything like that.
Peter Thiel has purchased MULTIPLE properties in NZ over the past 2 years yet you claim overseas buyers and non-residents have been banned from buying land or property. Obvious disconnect.
That's terrible sorry to hear about Jessica Lau and the other indigenous people of Maui . My Prayers are with you all and I hope that everything will work out fine for the families that are impacted. Sincerely, Michael
I’ve always wanted to move to Hawaii, Maui specifically. Knowing about this is what deters me. They don’t deserve this, and if by me moving there makes it worse I won’t do it.
Sadly this is happening almost everywhere. Once the rich latch on to an area the cost of living goes. It hits the pockets of the people who already lived there for years and it’s unfair and unjustifiable!
@@davidturner4076 not true america forced us to become citizens ..they invaded p.r and made alot of money of our land and screwed us like they do to everyone
I was finally able to buy my first home at age 64. But, only because both my parents died within a year of each other. It cost two human lives to stay in the islands.
No something needs to be done to stop these super wealthy non indigenous ppl from buying up land/homes in many countries! Go home to YOUR homeland and invest there! Stop stealing, abusing, raping, killing and taking resources from all these countries and go back to your own home land!! 😤
The same thing is happening in Puerto Rico! It’s so sad to see non-locals take our lands. Gentrification is the worst thing that can happen to an island that has no power against the US.
Well it seems like the government of PR is incentivizing it by giving tax breaks for rich to move down there. Trump was down there throwing toilet paper lol and the puerto ricans were worshipping him like a god. Gotta reap what you sow
What you native folks of these placed need to do is contract with one another to pool money and credit together. Buy back your land and homes and only sell to your own. Sounds wrong but look at how you can't afford to enjoy your historical lands. You must do something. The only way anyone can live there is by renting.
Resorts need to be paying a more fair share to use the land that they stole from the native peoples. And that money should go to higher wages and support of the native peoples, as well as protecting the land and what's left of Hawaii's environment.
@@zerotodona1495 Where you there, did you see money exchange hands? The US is know for doing lying, stealing lands that belong to Native People. America is a lie, it murders it's own people and it ravishes Mother Earth.
@@zerotodona1495 when we're talking about islands or otherwise very limited stretches of land with particular characteristics, your reasoning is worth nothing. This is why many oceanic countries don't even allow non locals buy property and if they do, the buyer will have to pay a price higher than the market price in order to compensate locals. This is a no brainer and your stupid buy and sell principles don't apply everywhere. Smh people like you are incredible 😂
This is happening all over the world. Anywhere there is prime real estate. Happened to my home town too. Everyone I grew up with has moved out and moved on because no one can afford it.
Grew up here and seeing all my childhood friends slowly moving to the mainland…it hurts. Living here is so beautiful and unique in its own ways but locals are really struggling
@@joeylee5879 What an ignorant and terrible thing to say. The land was paradise because indigenous people lived sustainably. American real estate creeps are just artificially forcing them out of their homes, that's the truth of it.
This is happening across the other 49 states too..... Of course it isn't as extreme. I'm a couple years away from 30 and cant afford a home unless I can find a partner somehow or get a 20k raise from my already 50k salary lol.....
@@flameshoter6 You can downsize, i know plenty people living in single bedroom apt for around 700/m have 10-20k vehicle financed, some of these people have 20k/y less then you, it's not living like dream, but yes you can do it... And it's up to everyone to not get comfortable and do their best to improve... Trust me, there are people out there with dispositions which would love to be in your place... Good luck though
As a Costa Rican, I feel these so deep. The most beautiful places of my country are not own by natives, but by people from first World countries. I have to pay to them to be able to visit to places of my own country
This happens everywhere.. Including in the United States. Born and raised in San Diego, CA.. And rich people from Arizona, Florida, New York etc buy it all up... Then people like myself cant afford it and have to move to a place like Nevada. Unfortunately the world is small and we are more connected than ever, it is how the world works.
@ADM that's not quite the same, that's being priced out of a state, not being barred from viewing natural attractions. It's still an issue, but you aren't veing forced out of your native lands
I thought I was the only one that felt pushed out of their own city where I was raised, I cant make it, too expensive, rent is too high, outsiders are pushing us out. Makes me feel so angry and robbed and I can empathize with the Hawaiian people, but it's happening to all of us where prime properties exist.
I feel the same about Los Cabos, we are a super turistic area so there is always outsiders visiting us, I don't hate that, what I dislike is that when they come to visit they return to their countries with the idea of "Buying a nice place" here and because of that people from my city had really difficult times trying to find places to work, for example, because If you live here, you gotta work of course, everyone have fees to pay. There is no space for us now, all the surrounding areas have already been taken, including the ones that are far away.
@@thomasg5201 You can only overcome capitalism if you and your fellow serfs engage in some very aggressive jolly cooperation against the ownership class.
So sad. So true. I've lived on Maui for 38 years. The Hawaiian people have been treated like 3rd class citizens. They had their islands taken from them by military force against the Queens wishes. And most tourists have no idea.
Reality is if it wasn’t the US, then it would have been Japan, if not Japan then some other foreign superpower. Best to hawaiian natives but theirs, like all civilizations, are doomed to change.
@@msi8311 If it wasn't for the US, we would truly be free! You're making as if we won't be able to survive on our own! We never wanted the US here and still hold that to this day. Hawai'i is a Kingdom
@@KamenRider808 true they act like US is our savior from other country when that a shitty excuse because look at how they destroy the arab world and other country claiming they doing what right
I grew up constantly moving due to increased rent and we had to move to the mainland almost 5 years ago and I miss my home everyday but its crazy how here we can afford basically everything we need when were using pennies and foodstamps anywhere we could back home. and the amount of outer island people that don't learn about our culture or history hurts to my core.
I'm so sorry about this. This isn't right and people who contribute to this are awful. Greed will be the death of us all and cause sadness to so many billions of people in the process. 🥺🫂
Thank you for exposing how it is for Hawaiians (& other locals) in Hawai'i and how hard it is because of haoles (foreigners) and the tourist industry, this is why things need to change here. It took decades for my aunty to get her home, she was on the waitlist since the 1980s. I also don't make the blood quantum (almost 40%); my father passed and the family home was passed down to my uncle. It's hard, even in low-income housing, with 3 jobs between me and my mom, and going to college but I'd still rather struggle than leave the islands. This is our home, I'll make sure my kids and grandchildren will still be here. I won't be pushed to leave the lands my ancestors lived on for hundreds of years, this is our land so hopefully, these issues can get better in the future.
The same thing is starting to happen in PR regardless of the fact its not a state. It’s just not as much of a vacation spot because of the violence there
Question, before you look at statehood? Do you believe that the residents of our territories should have a vote in Congress? Should they have voting representation, and the right to vote for the President? Do you believe that they should be fully protected by the US constitution? And do you believe that they should be able to keep US Citizenship? If you say yes, then statehood is the best path, if the residents want independence, then I hope that their U.S. citizenship gets revoked
@@dylanshaffer2184 depends, if they’re a state they should have representation in Congress, voting representation, etc. If they’re independent, then they obviously wouldn’t have representation in Congress, or vote for the president etc. As for citizenship under independence, you may very well hope they have their citizenship revoked under independence, but that’s easier said than done, in fact, the most successful bill regarding PR’s status stated that they would keep citizenship, but people born after the declaration of independence wouldn’t be citizens, not that hard. “all matters pertaining to Puerto Rican citizenship shall be regulated pursuant to the Constitution and laws of the Republic. States that upon the certification of the referendum under this Act, Puerto Rico shall no longer be deemed to be a part of the United States for the purposes of acquiring U.S. citizenship by place of birth. States that no person born outside of the United States after the Proclamation of Independence shall be a U.S. citizen at birth if the parents of such person acquired U.S. citizenship solely by virtue of being born in Puerto Rico prior to the Proclamation. Authorizes certain non-U.S. citizens to enter into, lawfully engage in occupations, and establish residence as immigrants in the United States.” www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/712
@@Coracora-he9pz interesting point, unfortunately the residents citizenship in the territories are guaranteed by an act of law and not by the constitution, their citizenship could be revoked with a repeal of the act that gave them citizenship. I for one believe that citizenship follows sovereignty and that if the U.S. no longer has sovereignty over that territory, then the residents should have their citizenship revoked out right. Though in 2020 PR voted for statehood, unfortunately though it wasn’t a binding referendum so congress has no obligation to act. I for one believe that all of the overseas territories should become states of the union, so that yes their citizenship would be protected by the constitution, they would gain equal voting representation in Congress, the right to vote for the President, be able to access federal assistance if needed, and as a state would have more political sovereignty, while still being a part of one of the largest economies of the world. Not only that, these new states would be a beacon of democracy, in a world increasingly influenced by authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. Also as a state of the union, it could pass laws that would benefit the native population, for Hawaii, the state could make a law that if the residents who are of native decent, then their places if residents would be bought out right so that they wouldn’t have to worry about making enough money to keep it. States can pass laws that help the native inhabitants, as long as it doesn’t break the US constitution.
As a Korean American I feel a debt of gratitude to the Hawaiian people for taking us in and accepting us when we were at a very harsh and desperate place in our journey and if I could make a enough money to buy back some of the land I woud build them homes and give the land back to them. I hope other Koreans with significant money now feel this way too and do it themselves.
Watching this brought tears to my eyes. Smh we as a people here on planet earth can do much better for our fellow brothers and sisters oppression must come to an end.
This is the story of humanity and it never changes. Humans compete with each other for scarce resources. We are the only species that can comprehend this and act on the knowledge to better our fellow man. However, we won't.
The best thing you can do is to build your own solution. If you have been on a waitlist for 19 years waiting for someone else to solve your problems, at some point you have to realize no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. Where there’s a will there’s a way, always.
True, but the government has allocated a small amount lands to the Hawaiian people since they pillaged all their wealth, land and resources. The problem is, the government is purposefully taking their time in actually building homes for Hawaiians because they are waiting for the bloodline to get diluted. The gov. will wait till all the 50% Hawaiians die and walla they don't need to give hawaiians any land!
I'm born and raised Kaua'i boy, I've been blown away at the amount of people who have moved here and the money they bring, makes our lives harder, you can't find a house for sale under 400000 and if you do it's a complete tear down, surrounded by other houses and huge trees that will need work as well, food is really expensive, and I get no government help(food stamps) my wife has started two Business from home through the plandemic it's been rough but we depend and rely on God and he takes care, we Hawaiians need to come together though this and need to speak out. Get our politicians on board. Tax people who move here and buy property, just like our colleges UH you pay more for not being a resident and to be considered resident you need to have lived here for 10 years and more then 6 months out of the year. I believe we should make that a requirement for any person moving here looking to purchase. And those who have moved here in the last 25 years should have to pay it as well. And have that money go directly to affordable housing for ancestral bloodlines to Polynesian peoples. WHY NOT?
Andrew, first i find it strange that La Kamekona is talking genocide because she can't pass down the house to the kids because of blood quantum restrictions but she knew about this but decided to get herself a Haole. Home girl is talking out of both sides of her mouth second, nawl the scenario you wrote is ideal but you and i we both know its never happening. if its not happening in southern africathen you best believe Hawai'i isn' going to benefit from it. I should mention that filthy rich Haoel from south africa are buying tons and tons of properties in Hawai'i. y'all pay close attention because whenever black people lose a place to live the exact same fate eventually happens to other brown people. Haole money from the colonial era in the african continent is what is used to buy other places.
It happens every where. I’m in Alabama in the country and although wages etc haven’t gone up, the groceries, the land all of it is increasing. It’s maddening. These people need to have property deeded to them that CAN NOT be taken. Period. Every single native of this land. They also deserve to have the final say in EVERY aspect of life on these islands. It’s disgusting that the natives of this place are driven to become the maids the gardeners, the “tour guides” of their own home and then have to live slum like. It should make everyone ANGRY…..and the rich people invading them should be shamed.
There's no such thing as gentrification. It's called economics karen. They live on an island with limited land in a place that other people go to vacation. Of course it's going to be expensive. And the 50% bloodline thing is dictated by the tribe and not the United States government so no it is not genocide. If you can't afford it then move.
@@deuscoromat742 Gentrification: "the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process." By definition, gentrification would be accurate, Karen.
@@deuscoromat742. Really?????? There are corporations using massive buying power to swoop up all the property in order to stabilize their hedge funds. The market that have typically been reserved for small investors have been inflated so the common person can no longer compete. All this would stop if hedge funds and corporate money would not be allowed to purchase in the residential real estate market. Gentrification is a different thing and very very real. You most not understand economics or sociology. But they have classes for you at the community college. Karen.
I once thought about moving to Hawaii but had been hearing of this same story just from word of mouth so much. This video made me cry. Who knew that by being from the mainland or just a non native really and buying out land here, you would be driving away the Native people's from here even more? I don't want to contribute to that while so many there are already homeless. It's unfair and truly heartbreaking and wrong. I pray that there will one day soon be stricter laws put in place to prevent more of this as well as WAY more help for the people already in this situation. I have been hearing of places like California and Oregon building tiny homes for the homeless. It may not be much, but it's definitely better protection from the elements and can really give someone the security they so desperately need. My heart goes out to you all. Sending love. ❤️
I feel so sorry for everyone going through this is Hawaii. I’m not Hawaiian and never been to Hawaii but I honestly can’t imagine being someone rich and going to Hawaii to buy land and live out my life knowing that could possibly displace a natives livelihood. This is just so sad to see😔
So sad, when I visited Wakiki it was like being in Japan, I was wondering where all the Hawiians were, I wanted to experience Hawiian culture and was disappointed, it's exactly what they did to the Native Americans just take what they want and push people out of their homes and take their land
When you go to Paris and see nothing but Muslim Africans . Same in London or Berlin, you can’t complain about the genocide of the local people and culture or you’ll be accused of xenophobic
When Iived on Maui in 2007 I waited tables at The Outback Restaurant and they paid me less than min hourly wage because they said I made TIPs. One 2 week paycheck I remember it said I worked 79 hours and my take home pay was $81 dollars for 2 weeks work. I was one on 13 waiters/ waitresses and usually in the top 2 tip earners. An avetage night was 100 to 120. So basically 5 nights tips working 8 hours a day I took home about $550. My rent for a non-air conditioned pmace was 800 dollars a month. Luckily my GF had a job as a Nurse so we shared the housing expense.
Oh and when the last customer had left the restaurant we had an hour to hour and half no tips but cleaning, vacuuming our sections at that dollar and something an hour wage.
Hud is super sketcy here on the 🏝. So many people I know who had HUD vouchers, but none of them were able to find housing that would take it. Just recently a friend over on Molokai reported a man from Chicago got his HUD transferred over and he ended up with housing right on the shoreline. So not only can native hawaiians with HUD vouchers getting denied, double slap in the face when mainland people come with ease on hud transfers.
This is happening all over the US and in many other countries. I lived in Hawaii during the 70s and 80s and the problem was present then. Many people had 3 part time jobs usually catering to tourists. In Hawaii, companies must provide health insurance and other benefits to all employees that work 20+ hours a week, so guess what all the businesses do they only let people work 15 hours a week. FYI there haven’t been $46 a night motel rooms in California for a couple of decades
This is the great reset. Housing will be out of reach. Gas. Electricity. They are buying up the houses and they're going to default all the mortgages. Same thing happened in Russia. This is how a country goes communist. Its happening.
My father who is 57% Hawaiian, never applied for Hawaiian Homestead lands, his reasoning was I can afford to buy a house, I'm not taking away the chance for another Kanaka Maoli brother or sister to own something here in our homeland. Very sad and unfortunate.
I am from Goa,a former Portuguese colony in the west coast of India and this very same thing is happening here ; natives are struggling whereas land/housing prices are going high and high due to the same reason as in Hawaii . I can feel the pain these natives .
Then get busy?? life is for the living and if one doesn't want to be on the train of progress, then go somewhere else and hide? The Earth is all one place and ALL life will mingle, how anyone thinks the petty amount of water on the surface dictates life has never met a human with superior abilities- Keep in mind, nature made us, nature directs us and nature will consume us!!! Stop being a blob of flesh and be what nature needs you to be. We already have slugs you know, use those legs, arms and mind to have an impact, or --why be here????
@@AngelloDelNorte they can't afford to live in their own country. You can call it a state all you want but that is B.S. and you know it. I'm a white nationalist. Europe for whites,Africa for blacks, and so on. Is how it should be. Then their wouldn't be half the problems that their are in the world. Diversity is never a strength. It's only a weakness. Just look around.
@@tmks7416 Most cany afford living anymore is a issue in general not just for natives. Wdym by diversity is weakness? I know it has massive issues and all it does is divide and demographics bringing more issues, but not sure if that's what you mean?
@@AngelloDelNorte yes that's what I mean. The natives are the ones who are poor. The others are using the housing as a second home or rentals. That's not necessary. The indigenous people should not suffer for greed. Same thing going on in Vancouver b.c. with Chinese. Hell the Chinese own most farmland in the USA. This is also absurd.
As disgusted as I am with what happened with the Hawaiian islands and their indigenous people, this crisis is happening everywhere. The homeless rate has skyrocketed here. Nothing is affordable unless it is located in the middle of nowhere, where employment options are almost zero. It’s insane. I feel a deep sense of sorrow for every single person who is going through this right now. I was homeless several times in recent years with my children. Facing that again right now, and doing everything possible to prevent that.
That's what happens when you simultaneously shut down the economy, eliminate competition, while causing massive inflation by pumping useless trillions of waste into it
Homeless rate has skyrocketed there but guess who's doing hookers and cocaine? Hunter Biden that's who 🤣 Biden family corruption look into it. Nancy Pelosi is now a multimillionaire. She is rich because she signed a bill to award billions of dollars in chips to NVIDIA and bought millions of stocks. Her and her husband are crooked to the core.
Same thing is happening to my home in the US Virgin Islands. St. John is almost gone to short term rentals. St. Thomas, where I live, is not too far behind. Many people leaving, including my family and I in a few years.
@@HughJass-jv2lt they owned a home when they we were all here. They sold it. I've been renting but saving up for a home. Only had 1 landlord not renew my lease but we found a place. Others weren't as lucky.
It’s only going to get worse. I live in freaking Texas and the houses are becoming 1 mil here. $600k if you want something liveable. Anything under that is going to be sketch. Just five years ago you could buy a great home for $250k. It’s literally freaking pathetic. It stuns me how I’m most likely not going to be able to buy a home in my home state… FREAKING TEXAS. Like we’re known for being cheap and affordable. I want to leave, however, everywhere else is even more expensive. The US is becoming unlivable with these prices. Just praying something works out for us all.
Not even the rich.. but the Ignorance of those asking for airbnbs and vrbos too. A lot of home owners use their property for short term and some don't even live there. I know of several people who get kicked out so the owner can turn over to short term.
💔💔💔 this country continues to treat the Indigenous peoples of this land so cruely. It breaks my heart. I wish I could do more. Being forced to move from your ancestral lands can't be the solution.
This is happening all over the nation. I had to move away from my home town because it was to expensive to start a family in California over 19 years ago. And nothing has changed in the 19 years since I left. It has only gotten worse. The gov’t talks affordable housing but with all the regulations in California, I don’t see how anyone will be able to afford a house here unless it is passed down in a will. Sad to see locals being forced away from where they grew up. The real estate market is GREEDY and they will only pass on the excessive fees and construction costs due to regs to the home buyer making housing available to the RICH or well off. They talk the talk but do not walk the walk.
The USA Central private banks, Ronald Reagan and rigged cheap home loans are responsible for the crazy housing situation in California. more reading can be found in Michael Hudson superimperialism.
“Why can’t San Franciscans afford to live in San Francisco?” I can relate. More smug snot nosed tech brats plopping out from everywhere in the world BUT the Bay Area.
I live in California because rent is ridiculous. Even for people who get section 8. The housing market is so expensive. That's why me and my family want to move somewhere that I can work enough to make enough money, and be able to afford a home.
I am a howlie,this makes me sick. Just because something is "legal" doesn’t make it right. I recently sold my mothers beautiful three bedroom house in Pahoa on the big island for $179,000. Fortunately a native Hawaiian was able to purchase it. I live on the mainland so I don’t see the difficulties the locals endure. I’m glad you shared.
The problem is because of Democrats. Banks make money when real estate prices go up. Country is built on real estate type securities. There's no incentive for politicians to simply build more houses and quench the thirst. I wish there was a housing program that helped y'all live in the land more affordably, but knowing how y'all also voted democrat, you gonna experience something similar to California soon.
@@honkhonk8009 income taxes, property taxes and economically illiterate regulations make costs of living go up too. Democrats are the worst but republican politicians are still crooks and will fight to fatten their pockets too lmao. You are right about Hawaii turning into California. It's california on roids
@@thisbandsuxk7966 Pahoa is not a good town? I live on the mainland and visited once just before my mom passed,seemed nice to me. Mom loved it and the house is beautiful.
Because our main (and pretty much ONLY) industry in Hawaii is Tourism. It makes servants out of us. The Construction companies do well, but they're basically helping the Tourism Industry to grow. We need other industries here, like STEM and Tech industries.
I visited Oahu with my wife a few years ago as was shocked and saddened by the large homeless camps of Native Hawaiians, not too far from the tourist hotels of Waikiki Beach. I learned the real story behind the US’s acquisition of the Hawaiian islands on my 2nd day there and I told my wife that I wanted to leave and go back home. I literally felt sick to my stomach hearing that story!
I live in Australia and one of our states is having this experience now. I've been watching Hawaii's experience with this for some years now in absolute disgust and sadness for her people. For us our government denies what's happening and lies. Our locals are pushed out on the street and our essential workers are depleted because they can't get a house either. It's like all people want is a society of holidays
People that live in Hawaii, New Zealand, Jamaica, Gullah Island and some other places can’t afford to live in their native countries or states. Places that whites or Asians consider vacation places they buy up the land and run up property values so that Natives can’t afford to live there. The same thing is happening in the United States rich people now want the more elevated lands and are now displacing people to get land they originally didn’t want, in some places people can’t afford to even live in the ghetto. Let’s not get started on the money cities give to keep to keep up expensive parts of cities and schools and neglect others.
Your looking at how the devil is in many peoples lives! All they see is material gain! Greed & Gluttany running amuck in many societies! My daughter is renting a one bedroom apartment for $1500-1600💰💰💰for college purposes! I fear what the future holds for the next generations! I couldn’t sleep peacefully at night knowing I’ve literally robbed someone of what they need to feed & shelter their families with also.
@@brianp5205 Actually no, it’s NOT America, it’s the Hawaiian Kingdom, which has been illegally OCCUPIED by the US since 1893. Americans even setting FOOT in our country is a violation of international law.
Unfortunately, it's like this throughout the U.S as well. I'm a native New Mexican and I see that in my own state where natives can't afford to live here because of the richer people moving into the tourist spots who then jack up the price for houses. It's ridiculous and really sad!
@@nightshade8445 I doubt that. Between $4.50 for gas, $1600 for a crappy place, $360/month for electric, a high state income tax, and so much more. $1k a week is nothing here.
I think native Hawaiians have been there before North America was even colonized. It's not like being a state native, it's their history and culture, where they've been for a long long time. It's different. I agree though that the tourist housing industry is lousing it up for everyone both in the states and on the island
I can totally relate to this. I'm also Native Hawaiian. My ancestors sailed here on a cruise ship over 9 months ago. We drink chi-chi's from a coconut and eat poke provided to us by the local Safeway.
Thank You AJ+ !! Thank you for shedding light on the problems here in Hawaii. It’s so expensive here and almost impossible to live off of even 2 jobs. My whole childhood I been in poverty until I got old enough to get a job. Ever since then I worked every single day. The problems here run deep and I thank people like this that can take the time to talk to REAL people in Hawaii and make people aware that they are not just visiting a beautiful paradise, but a place where people are working just to LIVE.
Your only hope of emancipation is to organize your fellow poor's into class war against your masters. You all either rise together or get individually exploited.
A similar thing is occurring (albeit on a smaller scale) in my home county of Cornwall in the UK. It's the holiday centre of the UK and many locals are going homeless while most of their hometown is empty half the year because they're second homes the owners only visit in summer. Entire villages are dying and nothing's being done, most families have to leave communities they've lived in for generations. It's awful.
Its not just Hawaiians that are going homeless, some born here not of Hawaiian heritage, working full-time all our lives have also been homeless. Currently, our minimum wage is $10.10. Its supposed to go up to $12.00. Even at $12.00 per hr, thats ridiculous, there's no way you can afford to rent an apartment or a house(no matter whether you're Hawaiian or not). No bank would EVER consider you for a mortgage, if one of you was on minimum wage. One thing that was set aside for Hawaiians is the Hawaiian Homelands, but the waiting list takes years for them to be qualified (sadly). Now multi millionaires like Mark Zuckerberg are coming to places like the North Shore of Kauai & buying huge tracts of land, thats a repeat of what happened at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian 🇬🇧 Kingdom. Just, this time its Zuckerberg instead of the usual suspects; (Dole) Castle & Cooke, The Robinson Family, Grove Farm, The U.S. Military, Parker Ranch, Larry Ellison (Lanai), Alexander & Baldwin, The Bishop Estate, the list goes on...
No matter what minimum wage is it doent matter because that just make everything that much more expensive. Minimum wage is the biggest lie fed to the lower class by the government. If you actually sit and look at the big picture what you can buy with your money today is about the same 20 years ago even though prices went up. 40-50 years ago thats a different story though. Hawaiis prices (and most prices) and gas and minimum wage driven. Thats why even buying local is expensive because of minimum wage and local farmers cant buy the big automated machines they have on the mainland.
Highly doubt it can change unless the state or federal government take action to only let outside country investors/corporations/rich individuals to only be able to buy certain amount of land/property. The poor will get displaced, fed to the wolves/survival of the fittest if not able to adapt and get better paying jobs mostly in the STEM field now. On the other hand, our law pushes for government to have as little intervention in people’s buying of property. It just doesn’t work out if everything is done by the paper/contracts/law without a mix of humanity and common sense. I don’t know though, I’m no expert.
as a floridian, I can understand her pain... living here during the pandemic. When so many people from other states moved here to my city, the rates for apartments went through the roof. Even though I have a good job, it's very difficult to afford a 1-bedroom apartment. The only part I can't relate with is, is the taking of her homeland by another nation. That's gotta be hard.
@Juu Tuub Annexation happened after all the Hawaiian Island chains had been unified as the Kingdom of Hawaii, thus there was no more war between the islanders. Whether it's good or bad that the U.S. annexed Hawaii, I didn't even say anything about that. Apparently for some people, it's good. But for some people including lot of native Hawaiians nowadays, it's not looking very good. By either way, the overthrow of the Hawaiian King and Queen were done illegitimately, and the U.S. government has even issued an official apology on the matter. Good or bad, right or wrong, I will let the world be the judge.
@Juu Tuub So I rob a bank or burglarize your house without casualties, by your definition it is okay. Again, I will let the world, more precisely the Native Hawaiians, be the judge.
Yup. Born and raised on BI and man have prices gone up like crazy. I was lucky enough to buy land and build a house before prices skyrocketed but my grandmother on other hand is paying $1500 a month for a one bedroom apartment. It’s nuts. I’m trying to buy more land before all these mainlanders take it all because its going fast 😕 Thank you AJ+ for doing a video about this.
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Thank you for helping with this tragedy that should have never happened! USA legally it's not your "state" and you admitted that in Public Law 103-150 which states Hawaiians never got reparations .. where are the reparations? The Hawaiian Kingdom still exists legally ... Set Hawai'i Free!
Is that red picked mango? Go sell that! I’ll pay premium. I used to sell a as kid. Best snack ever!
I love Hawaiians they are beautiful kind hearted people. Much love to all those struggling and being exploited. This is wrong completely wrong
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Just be racist against your life line , ie tourist. Karma? I think so.
I’m born and raised in Hawaii and it hurts that more people I know and grew up with can’t live here anymore. Hawaii isn’t Hawaii without its local people.
Good response
odd how most of the U.S. Loves immigration unless it effects the wrong people.
Wow that really sucks. Do hawaiians have generational land or all is lost?
Sorry to hear, i know that feels and to see many natives being force out by American billionaires.
@@Brah_Lizard they could build homes for locals if they wanted
When people say that "homelessness is not a personal failure, it's an institutional failure," this is what they mean.
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This is horrible…
It is their home, their land. And they’re getting pushed out.
Justice for Native Hawaiians.
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Blame billionaires
Why isn't the Dept. Of Hawaiian Homelands building homes?
Blame Democrats and liberal policies.
06:00 apparently her kids don't qualify
As an Asian-American born and raised on the mainland, I feel so much sadness for the native Hawaiians. I didn’t even learn the depth of Hawaii’s history in school. It was not until I was an adult that I learn the true, unfiltered history of Hawaii. It’s just so sad what has happened and what is happening.
Sadly more homeless are sent here from the mainland while the native people suffer.
They won't teach that because they will get exposed..
I was fortunate to visit Hawaii once and I’ll never go again. It’s extremely hard to be served by native people and see them living in poverty and enjoy a vacation. This is a conversation that needs a lot more attention and I appreciate this video
This is why I can't do cruises. Knowing the 3rd staff are getting treated like utter garbage, paid so little for long hours????
@@GWiz-mq5pu have you been to Africa? Millions of people would be so happy to make $20 a day working on a cruise ship. Sad
This is how it was in all the Americas 😢 natives never mattered to the Christian European colonization, 2nd class humans, killed or enslaved and those who “adapted” and got “civilized” are still 2nd class… they keep taking all resources till this day… ships loaded with gold,silver, all kind of goods back in the day and now the actual land.
@Aron Toulouse right!! When I go I love staying in locals airbnbs, and supporting local businesses, that probably helps more than not coming at all
@Aron Toulouse totally agree. This applies not just for Hawaii but for other states and countries as well. Ever since I tried Airbnb in 2018, I have never stepped foot inside another hotel room. It feels good to know that our money goes to the local population instead of a multinational hotel chain. (I’m aware that Airbnb takes a percentage of the pay as well, but they do need the money keep the app running!)
Some people might argue “but hotel chains employ local people as well!”.
But you know what? The bellboys and waiters and janitors are not really given fair wages. Many of them have to work a second job to survive. Meanwhile, Airbnb hosts are allowed to set their own nightly rates...whether it is $20/night or $300/night, it’s totally up to them.
As a Puerto Rican I feel this heavily. It’s happening to our people as well. It’s ridiculous and very sad.
Colonizers gonna colonize.
Facts sister
Indeed. Hopefully, we can stop it.
This is horrible 😣
Pobre Hawai’i, and Puerto Rico 🥹
Horrible. I went to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 for a week. Beautiful. Even the slums of La Perla.
I grew up in Hawaii because my dad was in the military. I always thought local hawaiians should have priority when it comes to land rights. so sad ☹️
Many locals aren't Hawaiian enough 05:20
@@YourName-jm7lz They have reservations and casinos.
@@falsch4761 lol
@@sergelondon916 Still doesn’t make up for all the genocide and colonization they’ve faced during this countries origin.
@@ppjskh I never said it did, at least they have that. The native Hawaiian don't have shit.
I moved to hawaii with my roommate at 18, less then one year later my best friend and I need to leave the island because prices here are astronomical and wages are less then 12 an hour. Our apartment is a closet sized room and we can not even afford that. Unfortunately many Hawaiians are just forced out or forced to turn to government help and it’s so sad.
thats what the democrats want you to do, ask the government for help.
What were you thinking moving there is the first place?? I make a substantial salary and I still wouldn't move there because I know I would only be able to rent a condo. You need to do your research in advance.
I moved there in 2002ish with 3k, lived relaxed and worked till 2009 when I moved back to CA. Life was great, rent was very affordable and I worked a normal 40hr week. My last year I did overtime and saved all I could and left with 23k. But that was 2009, and I was on Oahu.
Want a better Hawaii, stop voting blue.
This makes me so angry and just disgusted! As an American, I’m ashamed of how the government treats the natives!!! It’s THEIR land!!! Not one single native should EVER be homeless. Why isn’t this all over the media!!! We need to bring awareness to this!
Agreed 💯
It's not just the government, it's people with money to buy up multiple houses and property that they will never Iive in.
It's not the government's fault. The culture of capitolism is forcing these people out of their traditional lives.
@@bannockchief actually bro, you are just plain wrong. the reason hawaiians have lost their homes and land, is because of the governments property taxes. Rising home values SHOULD make natives rich, but instead, because of government property tax, they lose their homes, because they are forced to either sell the home or work a higher paying job to pay the government. But most of the time, they cannot find a higher paying job, so they have to sell the home, then as the property values increase after they sold, they are further and further priced out of the market. ALL because of taxes. Please please please, study and learn this stuff before making idiotic statements about capitalism. Do you know what the world was like before capitalism??? it was called the dark ages for a reason
I think you should blame capitalism
It's very disheartening
The natives deserve to have a home on their own land
Justice for native Hawaiians
I'm far from a monarchist, but in the case of Hawai'i, I wish it got re-instated.
@@camelopardalis84 very few Native Hawaiians left 05:20
@@scottyflintstone What is your point here?
@@camelopardalis84 that race based programs don't work (in her own words).
@@scottyflintstone Did you understand my comment to mean that I am in favour of race based programmes?
As a Cherokee man must I remind you of the trail of tears. What we allow to happen to some will eventually happen to all, we must stand up for each other we are all we got!
Stand up for the Blacks the Cherokee enslaved. You are no better than the white man only less efficient at doling out misery. Heck you are Cherokee and probably white anyway.
@@jamesmorton5017
As a Native must agree. The Cherokee Nation finally accepted them as citizens. The Cherokee not only betrayed black Natives but other Natives. Some were sell outs.
@Shon East Mexicans are native to North America and are descendants of native North American tribes even if you meant that as a joke you sound ignorant.
@@GravityButterfly The Mexican empire conquered many of the tribes that were native to the western part of North America. Let's know our history. Also, Mexico created a systematic process called 'Mestizaje' with a goal of lightening the population and creating a Mexican ethnic identity. Let's not play this "Mexicans are indigenous" game. It's a smokescreen that a lot of mestizo Hispanics use to practice erasure of indigenous culture.
Cherokee...look up the "$5 Indians"
“This is Māuʻi! It’s not like you can drive to another island!” That breaks my heart, and why I had to leave.
This is heartbreaking. While the rich keeps getting richer, the poor gets poorer. This is happening every where, not just in Hawaii. People in other states or even countries are experiencing the same. I hope they find a solution to these problems soon.
we are 'they'. middle and low class people need to do something radical, nothing else will work
Stop bailing out the wealthy when they lose. our government publicizes losses and privatizes gains.
@Aloha not to mention they also almost completely destroyed our culture, polluted our oceans, and killed off our native species, our ancestors took good care of this 'aina and now it's being destroyed.
The ‘poor’ you’re referring to are people that accidentally made copies of themselves. The ‘rich’ are generational planned families. It’s very simple.
Aloha there’s no such thing as a sacred site or burial ground, that’s not real. Your imaginary indigenous shit and superstition mean nothing to anyone. You don’t seem to know anything about your own history either as the things you mentioned are the least of what the US did. You’re fake.
I'm native to Hawaii and was born and raised there for 12 years. Me and my parents are from Waianae and recently moved 2 years ago due to the high pricing. It was even sadder since my brother had just gotten into Kamehameha and me and my older brother were to be attending the year after. Even though I was excited to move, I still really do miss my family and friends back at home. Moving to the states is like being in another country, and the move was hard. I don't blame my family though because they did what was best for us. If you do visit hawaii, go to the more local spots and see just how much homeless there is. It's heartbreaking, I was just lucky not to be in that situation as a kid. Hawaii isn't just beautiful beaches and shaka's, there's more struggle here then you'll ever know.
@FRANK LA FORGIA it is ok keep wasting money to Ukraine instead of Hawaii
It is the evil elites biden is flooding all America with illegals across the boarder cities across America have drug addicted homelessness popping up everywhere I hope the Hawaiian people don’t get hooked on drugs that is also manufactured by government you see it worst in democrat ran states
Is the homelessness worse than in San Francisco?
@FRANK LA FORGIA Are you insinuating the guy that threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans would've done better to stop the ultra rich from buying up native land and building hotels.. Or are you like the rest of us and wish someone else, like Tulsi of Hawaii, won?
@FRANK LA FORGIA What is JB doing to the southern states that negatively impacts the native population?
This is what's happening in PR too. The US doesn't come to foreign lands to protect or help. They displace locals.
The Japanese and Philippines aren't coming from America though.
that is technically, actually not true the United States technically, actually comes to foreign lands to protect and help not displace locals .
Exactly what those who are favoring gentrification can't seem to realize
@@albinakemet
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@@HughJass-jv2lt do not use those emojis.
This is not just a Hawaiian problem it's happening all over the world with all different cultures.
exactly, and it needs to be stopped
Right here in the other COLONY, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Yes it happened to my home as well.
that’s why the fire humbled locals. as a local myself, it’s sad to say we need tourists to survive.
thank you work 2 jobs if you have to it can be done imake 18 on one job and 15 on another so you dont have to live in your car apply yourself harder
This isn't just happening in Hawaii, this has been happening in the pacific for a long time. Native Maori in New Zealand also experience this same issue that the Hawaiians are facing and either move to Australia or where ever is affordable living conditions far from there ancestral lands. Mostly Auckland where the price of living has grown astoundingly.
Happens every where....Supply and demand...key is to buy and never sell...keep a good job...pay your taxs....keep up your properties....save your money......there is no free lunch...well there is but its not worth eating
@@Steven-mm7gb the white mank system isn't working when it forgets it's indigenous people.
The Lord's judgement is upon those who grind the faces of the poor. In other words those high-minded people who think they can rub the noses of the poor in their own poverty are asking to be made an example of. This indictment is inescapable.
Even I can't move back to Auckland. I spent my whole life there but I moved to Christchurch because it was more affordable but I wish I could just go home where my friends and family are. South Auckland is so rough and far away we would downgrade to an old sick house worth nearly a million for our brand new warm house in Canterbury just to be close to where we grew up and our friends and family. We lived in Papakura for 4 years, we were sick all the time, the mold hiding within the walls... Im not spending over a million for neighbours who start riots and beat their dogs.
@@melancholycollie1466 your argument about papakura vs chch house affordability is completely irrelevant now with soon to be insane high interest rates and hyper inflation including global supply chains slowing down. Like I said before the corrupt white mank system ain't working
Oh well. Nobody cares when it happens to black people. Hopefully things like this keep happening all over the world.
Why is no one calling it was it is??? It's greed fueled by landlords and homeowners. People say it's due to inflation or supply and demand. But when wages are stagnant for people everywhere and homeowners forcibly raise rent prices, that is the key problem. There's no one to blame but the people who own these buildings. Landlords give nothing back to society but take take take
Lots of people think like you and they said screw it, I will live in a tent ...or an RV. Been to LA lately?
We can all thank the great motivational speakers and success coaches like Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy and Hawaii's own Rob Kiyosaki for that mindset.
Recently, rentals are being doubled and tripled in price. It was already so bad and now with so many people becoming homeless, folks losing their homes due the pandemic, folks that own their homes outright getting upside down because taxes have gone up so fast and ridiculously, “investors” are snapping up properties and making it so so SO much worse.
It’s greed. It’s capitalism. It’s disgusting. It’s so frustratingly wrong.
Politicians that needless keep raising property prices Nedd to be blamed as well.
@Hapa Boy *unchecked* capitalism. Everyone should have the opportunity to make money, but not at the cost of others like that. There need to be checks and balances
This video seems to have a lot of impact and a lot of people realize the living situation we are in. Big corporations have taken the “Hawaiian Lifestyle” and marketed it to tourism. If you visit, just keep this in mind:
- Go to the small locally owned businesses
- Be respectful. The people of Hawaii are so nice, if you are nice to us.
- Don’t ignore boundaries and go places or do things that are not allowed. As locals, we get the short stick because of the actions of people who don’t even live here.
We invite you to our home, so long as basic respect is had.
Amen
@@ke4692 Just a note for people since this video has a large reach. There is no doubt that Hawaiians should be serious about this and preserve the little that is left from our culture. If you want local families to win, then local business must be brought to light. The respect portion is simply a reminder to respect our people and aina when visiting. there is nothing wrong with that, and I am left confused as to why you are questioning it. If you are not from Hawai'i, you should understand that the majority of tourists are sucked into tourist traps set up by large mainland US corporations. It is well known out here that a vast majority of tourists have no boundaries and will intrude into peoples personal lives, trespass on property, and do illegal shit that we get to face the consequences for. How many hikes, fishing spots, and beaches have to get monitored/closed off to public access because people that aren't even from here abuse it?
It simply doesn't make sense to skip an opportunity like this. If a video by a fairly large content creator attains a large audience that is mainly not from Hawai'i, but likely to visit, why wouldn't you say the above statement? It is hard to have a voice from Hawai'i on a national scale. We are so isolated that this is one of the only ways to remind people to please not act like a dumbass, and to support local business who need to support.
Hawaii can do this on its own, but the first step is having a government that values Hawaiian tradition and values. Its a shame that our leaders place priority on mostly people the state will see once and never again.
Born and raised in the islands. Still live here. I consider myself a pretty level headed and hardworking guy but this is truly what’s happening here. I have a little Hawaiian in my blood and have many friends that are nearly 90% or more hawaiian blood in them. Trust me when I say this. Even the so called “Hawaiian” organizations are entangled in the greediness of the whole circle of corruption. Seen it and have even close relatives that’s involved. Hard to take in but it’s true. MONEY TALKS.
I’ve been to Tahiti back in the early 2000’s and that trip made me and my wife tear up. All the locals were pushed away from the coastlines and live in poverty in the countryside’s/mountainous areas. Million dollar homes popping up all over the place. That trip opened our eyes because that outcome that we witnessed was exactly what was happening to our home back in Hawaii. Fast forward to 2022. It’s here and it’s really bad. We are fortunate to own our home and some properties. We’ve been saving up for so many years to prepare ourselves for this crap. Sacrificed alot during our younger years to buy property while in our early 20’s then bought our 1st home 7yrs later. In this present day, the value of real estate has tripled even quadrupled in the past 3 yrs. Even with what we have and working our asses off, we still struggling. The rich and wealthy don’t give a dam. It’s me me me, take take take…… My thoughts and hopes for all who try their best to make it in this place we call home. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😔
interesting. Owning real estate is such a big marker for generational wealth. I grew in the projects in NYC to a single mother raising 3 boys. No real assets, and now own some properties. We also work our asses off - I have 3 jobs, but I can tell that just owning a piece of property during inflationary times really sets some folks up in another category altogether.
Disgusting. This is what all the gentrification did to the San Juan Islands in Washington. The people who were residents there and had lived there for years and years were forced out of their homes because people build houses and priced everybody out of the market. My heart goes out to the people of Hawaii
Okoboji Iowa, small sleepy lake town with cottages that have been in families for GENERATIONS are being torn down and Mcmansions being put in their place. Sickening.
@The Last Prophet ³³³ it sure does....
This is the kind of thing"the greatest country in the world" does.🤔
@@kelicajohnston9990 the others do just as bad if not worse... go live in another country and see
@The Last Prophet ³³³ please this ain't the end of anything you piss whinny brats are about to expirience a golden age
I am so heartbroken at this situation. I was born and raised here in Hawaii and in my 37 years here it’s gotten harder and harder for native islanders to live in the place we are born. And it’s even more painful for native Hawaiians because they have ancestral roots here also. But during the last 5 years it has started exploding. Outside investors keep buying up properties here and the prices are going up at a disgusting rate. The government needs to make a law that you cannot buy a home here unless you have lived here for a certain amount of time. I understand free market, supply and demand etc. but the consequences of this continuing this way is that we will all have to leave and this place will just be an island for the ultra wealthy. It will loose what is so magical about Hawaii. People who understand Aloha, Pono, people of honor and integrity that respect the land, the sea, and the culture. I am in tears that to our own government money is more important than the soul of the islands. And the people who understand this place and actually care about this place, the people who belong here.
Racist
@@willnill7946 sit down.
I have lived in Hi for over 60 years. This is what happens, a family buys a house many years ago. Parents die and children don't want to live together in the house so it sells. Kids sell house at market rate so the price is higher. New family buys house and parents die and kids sell house at market rate and the price goes up. Regulations are insane and price to build new housing is insane so prices go up. Locals have little family motivation to do well in school so they mostly get nowhere in life and have little income. Sooner or later the price is high enough that only people that have higher income jobs can afford housing. State is anti business so making a great income with a small business is almost impossible. State is a "Nanny State" and wants to regulate just about everything you do. Cost of living is also high. Keep voting for those who raise taxes and regulate and it will only get worse but they keep drinking the kool aid.
@@bkailua1224 It's not just in Hawaii. In Canada British Columbia, Seattle, everywhere homes are so expensive that it's almost incomprehensible. Nice homes in my neighborhood are closer to 1 million and I'm in the suburbs near water. For Hawaii, it's obviously a little worse due to the location. I don't think it's a good idea to make land laws for Hawaii but giving the Natives a reservation would be a good start. Although it causes crime, they will at least have a home.
Remember that outside investors come from all over the world.
This is happening to Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 as well. Cost of living is outrageous in the island and Puerto Ricans don’t earn enough to keep up and we are being remove from our island little by little! Hawaii we are with you! ✊🏻
mi gente. hawaii and PR have a lot of overlap.
This is so true I have been trying to tell my Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 people that once we become a state they are going to remove the native Puerto Rican off our Island 🏝 it's already started and it makes me very sad 😔
I'm sorry to hear. As a African American, I want to learn more. Can I ask a question... Honestly, who causing this to happen?? Rich white people? Corporations?
@@d.kj.n1392 rich Asians, white people, Jews, and native people who sell land and property to the aforementioned big three darlings of gentrification. Rich European whites, moneyed Jews and Asians.
@@getshorty7549 that makes sense. I visited Hawaii several years ago and I was confused on why there's so many damn white Americans/Europeans and some Chinese living the good life while the native people were living average or far below average... I truly hate seeing stuff like that
Everything is so expensive today. It is sad. I wish everyone blessings and peace.
That one woman was so right when she said Hawaii was stolen. It was never purchased, it was overthrown. No Native Hawaiian should ever be homeless. I lived there for 5 years and saw so many back in the mid to late 90's, living in tents on the beach. That is just not right. I am glad that I don't live there anymore because it was so expensive and I just got tired of struggling and moved back to the Mainland. But if you are born and raised there generation after generation, you should not be struggling and you certainly should not be homeless.
All land is stolen, that's kinda history. Power struggles. Hawaiians killed or took from the people who came before them. Then America took from Hawaiians because America was the stronger military power
How are sellers or the gov supposed to regulate who’s “generational” and who is just coming? Anyone can claim bloodline
@@aisha-3857 birth certificate, even if you are like 1/16 Hawaiian. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
The land was stolen? Who gave it to them? Where is their deeds? All these people should of ALREADY had their chit together, with their SUPPOSED land, that they already lived on with a home. And shouldn't they be blaming the greedy Hawaiian's that are selling their pre-existing homes for $500 per sqft....when they could be selling it for just a minor profit of $100 per sqft to another Hawaiian opposed to racking in fat cash from a main lander/outsider buyer? Blame the Hawaiian's who looked to make ONLY CASH, because of greed, selling their property that high and not comphrending the results. Who ended up selling their homes that high? It wasn't leprechauns, Greeks or unicorns...it was Hawaiian's.
@@Blakelikesfood wow. youre a loser
I'm one of those who left my home on Oahu to afford to live here on the mainland. Every single day, I regret my decision. It's been 10 years now. A comparison for some who don't understand. On my last trip home a couple months ago, I looked at the value of the house my family lives in and it is around $700k. The house is trash, needs to be knocked down and made a new. It's just over 800 sq/ft, 3 bedrooms. After living here on the mainland, I finally bought a house for myself at $309k for 1500 sq/ft. People always ask me, "Why would you leave Hawaii?" The answer is simple, I was priced out of my home. People there aren't homeless, they are house-less. Hawaii is our home.
Wow. It’s almost impossible to own, unless u got a really good paying job. But 700k is impossible for typical person, that’s like 2 k of mortgage a month…Me and my husband and 3 kids left California about a yr ago. Cheapest houses r 600k and it’s like 2 bedrooms and they look bad. Milk is almost 5 dollars a gallon gas is almost 5 as well. These beautiful states r being taken away from the typical person…. I miss cali everyday but I don’t regret our decision we rent a modern house with 3 beds for 1k a month. We are hoping to buy soon as well.
@@lornajean7286 where did you move to?
I’m in California with my kids and getting priced out
@@birdlover7776 Indiana next to Chicago.. we got a 3 bedroom house with backyard we pay 1k a month. Same Happened to us we had no choice but to think what’s better for our kids
@@lornajean7286 thanks for your response. I was thinking somewhere with some kind of coast lol. I would terribly miss the ocean
@@birdlover7776 lol they r getting expensive,, maybe San Pedro ca
This breaks my heart. I love Maui it’s the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen. I hate that these people are being run out of their home, it’s terrible. I didn’t understand why the locals didn’t like us very much. But I I fully understand. I’d feel the same way too
@Gavin's Greatest Clips Me and my wife look like Tourist. So they were not happy with our presents either way.
My Great Auntie was born and raised in Hawaii. She said the locals don't like people from the mainland because to many people from the mainland are disrespectful of people and the land.
@@statusvip8418 who's they are u scared to be a real nic are u a cow
Its being done to mostly people of color...Took land for Black Americans Native Americans and now these Hawaiians...what a shameful thing they continue to do to people of color.
@@elizabethschreffler9182 it true my dad said the island and the ocean were pristine and beautiful before the tourist came thru and damage the environment it really bad, and as a Hawaiian it hurt to see the animal and the environment being disrepected. I'm not surprised when the US did admit to illegally occupying Hawaii and look what happening to Hawaiian they have to leave because they made sure it hard for us to live in our home.
This is heartbreaking. I will be moving to Hawai’i this fall to begin my master’s degree. It’s devastating to see that essential redlining and genocide is not just present in my own city with my own people, but people all over the U.S. and the world. Thank you for sharing.
How is it out there being ... Black(I'm not gonna assume your african american 😂) I was thinking bout finishing my bachelor's out there .
You: “Wow it’s so sad to see how our presence negatively affects them… I’ll be moving there shortly.
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This is so sad. My husband and I are born raised Hawaii on Oahu. We were priced out when he in his 50s (far from retirement) got two cancers and a stroke and no longer able to work. Had to leave our beloved Hawaii for his medical care. When he passed I tried coming home but quickly realized I could not afford rent, not even a 360 sq foot studio in Waikiki. Honestly. I have contemplated returning and living out of my vehicle too. I don't have Hawaiian blood but my friend in Kalihi has 63% and still she cannot get homestead land. It's so wrong. I feel frustrated for my situation, but I feel for my Hawaiian brothers and sisters more because the land belongs to them.
The land belongs to the US, unfortunately. And if that wasn’t the case then hawaii would belong to Japan.
@@msi8311 not really. That’s a tired old line that the USA has repeated to itself to justify the continued settler colonial project here. Japan attacked Hawaiʻi because the USA had military bases here. That’s all.
its ALL corporate paperwork, greed, lies and evil ways; NOBODY or NOTHING OWNS ANYTHING - yet the PEOPLE of the LAND should NEVER be removed and NEVER have to PAY.....NOBODY should - Its TIME 2 BRING the ENTIRE LYING SICK SYSTEM DOWN!
@@msi8311 I rather belong to Japan because we got good relationship and have family with them too plus their anime, technology, and cordial behavior is cherry on top. Whereas US admit to forcibly illegally occupied Hawaii and more focus on displacing Hawaiian.
This situation of pushing out native peoples from their homeland through a variety of means is a tale as old as time. It has happened with indigenous peoples on the mainland but it's also happening around the globe. It is absolutely wrong on every level and morally repugnant.
Truth is even in America the pricing of houses has gone up so much that alot of American citizens cannot afford it. Even renting to get a half way decent apartment not even real fancy, It is going to cost $900 to $1000.00 or more. I have been hearing that this is happening all over in different countries. Everything is high no matter where we live. And it is making it harder for the poor and even the middle class. Life is uncertain, and times may get harder but I am thankful to know JESUS CHRIST as my personal SAVIOUR. My faith and trust is in HIM. For this world is not my real home. I am looking and waiting for JESUS TO COME.
@T Bell, well said.
So I guess Italy and Germany owe me land? That's your logic
It's called evolution and it's not going to slow down anytime soon
This is so far beyond “taking indigenous lands” though…. The Hawaiian Kingdom is its own internationally recognized country. We have our own constitution, currency, laws, courts, healthcare etc etc… the US CLAIMS it annexed us, but it didn’t, we’ve been ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED by the US for 130 years. Every “land sale” is theft AND a violation of international law called pillaging.
As someone of native Hawaiian descent, this is the sad reality of life in Hawaii. I am fortunate enough to own a home, but like many other Hawaiians or locals, its only because I inherited it. Otherwise there'd be no way I'd be able to buy a home in this market. Inheritance is pretty much the only way to home ownership for many native Hawaiians, you have to be lucky enough to have had ancestors who bought property in the past when it was still affordable. That or Hawaiian homelands but dont get me started on the debacle
Inheritance is how 2 build wealth thru generations. Beat elite@ own game
@@IvySnowFillyVideos if you cant even afford a home how do you build generational wealth?
@@Bluhlots of Hawaiians live in big family, sharing money amongst others. My family was pretty poor 30 years ago, but they racked up quite a lot with everyone in their family.
Shut the hell up. Make your point but the "as a Native " is way too cringe.
Get the f**^out of here with that part native BS
Minimum wage: $12/hour
Zillow homes for sale: $800k up to nearly $43 million in Maui
Gas in Hana: $6.50 per gallon
Groceries: Foodland Farms $10 milk
Full blooded Native Hawaiians: less than 5,000
Golf Courses in Hawaii: 75
Acres golf courses take: ~200,750+ acres
Houseless-ness: highest rate in all of America
History: Maurice J. "Sully" Sullivan was an immigrant from Ireland who moved to Hawaii and was the co-founder,
with See Goo Lau, of Foodland Super Markets, the largest and only locally owned supermarket chain in Hawaii
Invasive species: caucasians
Jessica is a Hawaiian patriot and this is how she is rewarded? With homeless and minimum wage! Its terrible!
Too bad they lost their land.
@@EdiMeanG “their”, and many times they don’t have a choice. The pacific islands are in a choke hold by a corrupt government. It’s the same way on Guam. It’s disgusting, and the island natives pay for that corruption. While Americans reap the benefits.
The military has taken hold of every pacific island, and has not done well with those islands. I could start to list all the crap we do to them.. but I think you get the gist.
Nobody likes minimum wage. People with college degree and due diligence in tithing always made more $$ in their lifetimes than the other routes.
@@skellingtonmeteoryballoon Clearly you have never lived in Hawaii. Me and my husband both have college degrees and still have a hard time purchasing a home in Hawaii. Our medium price single family home is over $1,000,000 on the island of Oahu. He owns a business and I’m a real estate agent. Making $100k a year is hard with a family of 4 to purchase a home and not a townhouse with a $700 a month maintenance fee in addition to a $2800 mortgage.
@@NamelessVoice808 just out of curiosity, do you tithe 1/10th of your income. I used to live at ala kapuna st. And learned about Pete Nelson and his work since I relocated, thinking that'd be the ideal way to live in the island trees 🌴 The Lord has me planted in the mainland though. Aloha to you.
This happening throughout the United States, though Hawaiians are probably experiencing this the worst. Half the problem lies in investment firms (foreign and domestic) that buy up the land and build expensive condos and drive up the price. You have investment firms from China, Japan, Russia and the Middle East doing this, as well as investment firms like Blackrock and others in the US doing the same thing.
This is the root cause. But it will never be mention because local politicians tend to get paid off by these firms and/or benefit from the development by awarding contracts.
@@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536 can you blame the people of HAwaii for this? Afterall, they did vote for their politicians, which got them in this mess.
Leftists
And they are buying land everywhere. I have seen comments on other channels that Ireland is another place that is losing available land bc of foreign buyers. The global market push is to blame. It's time for every country to ban foreign buyers from owning any land especially farming land. All of the USA used to have zoning laws that were upheld where you couldn't buy a property and make it an airbnb, you had to live there, not anyone else. And all the land in one area could not be bought up by one person. Things need to go back to that. NYC used to have rent controlled apartments, where the gov't didn't allow rent to be raised. Sounds like all local govt's need to do this, then investors will leave voluntarily.
@@catara99 Too late! If you want to know where the smart money is (and always has been), it's land. Bill Gates is buying a ton of it right now. He knows what is coming.
I understand what the people of Hawaii are going through. I am Puerto Rican and I own a beautiful house with a view of the beach but lately most of the homes in my area have been sold to people in the US for much more than they are worth here. So many Puerto Ricans can't afford to buy a house because people from outside are raising the price of homes. I'm lucky I own my home .
It's even happening in northwest Florida now. Locals can't afford homes and utilities the way they once could, because people moving here from other states have driven prices so high. I am from here, but I'll be moving. It's beginning to look like South FL now.
@@adayinapril581 centeral Florida As well
Thats what called Gentrification.
If I could,I would go to Puerto Rico,and buy hundreds of houses and sell them for normal prices to families from there .I would keep doing it if I could .Why don't some of these richest 1% do this I wonder? They have a disgusting,obscene amount of money that they could never spend,but they want more money! Disgusting people who have zero humanity
Damn that sucks.
She was my tour guide in 2015 on vacation in Maui....very sad to see this happen..
Oh man 🥹🥹
I wish there was more videos like this to bring awareness to this situation. I have native hawaiian blood and not once have I nor my family ever got any assistance. My mom was a police officer with hpd for 17 years and for six years now, she's been homeless living across rhe street from a'ala skatepark.
The blatant corruption there is beyond disgusting. And it's heartbreaking that these topics are so quick to be silenced there. As much as I miss my home, I have so much more resources available to me here in Seattle. I hope Hawai'i will change someday to actually care for it's locals.
Why are you not asking her to move in with you.
That is heartbreaking to hear. Of all people, she should not be homeless. When I lived there, there were many Hawaiian's that were living at Makua Beach and Waimanalo Beach. I would guess that they were all thrown out because of tourism. Now I see why some locals were so unfriendly to tourist and Mainlanders when I lived there. Get a one way ticket for your Mom and have her come live with you.
@@Jose_Jimenez Maybe you should listen to the video as to why.
@@pakababy3710 I grew up there, I don't live there now. I left in 1976, and have not lived there since. Like one person's kids asked, "come live with us on the mainland." I live on the mainland because I can't afford to live there even on Oahu. The other thing is that these people are living on the outer island which is extremely more expensive. I live in a 4 bedroom 2400 sq ft home in California that I bought for $220,000. There are other places to live, so they need to stop complaining. Have you ever lived there? And yes, Democrats have always ran the politics there in Hawaii, and look at the place now. It is just like SF which is turning into a toilet.
@@pakababy3710 buddy are you serious? prices are just too high so I'll have a home while my moms on the street? cmon. I live in CA, shits expensive, but id work day and night to not have the woman who cared for me living on the streets, id pay for a 1 bedroom studio, put her in it, and be homeless myself before I let that shit happen. Lazy people at the end of the day
This is happening all over the USA. Yet no discussion about upzoning or developing in a non-autocentric way to bring costs down. Lots of shots of wide roads lining single family homed streets really brings the point home...
Only way to fix this is to have control
On - 1 person buying all the market
They are doing this in a town close to mine namesld Clovis and basically most houses are being bought by investors then turned into Airbnb vacation rentals. All the locals moved out and continue to do so because it’s so expensive
@@rthua5718 I wonder how is it possible for these companies to buy a houses like this.
@@donaldthompson4044 greed
Back in the early seventies, when I was a university student, I knew three Hawaiians who had come to the Mainland to live and raise their kids BCOZ they told me even back then Hawaiians couldn’t afford to live in their own homeland - This report details exactly what they told me forty years ago.
Thank you for bringing awareness!
I've always wanted to go to Hawaii and haven't done so yet. I'm so glad I saw this first. I'm not going unless this gets better, and I can exclusively support indigenous people and indigenous-owned businesses. This situation is absolutely absurd. It's time for history to stop repeating itself 😡
I’m mad to but I’m still going
You should still visit and help them by being a tourist
@@l0129 then you're not mad just some fake outrage to make your colonizing spirit feel better
@@rkeve6352 if you say so I finna be swimming with them dolphins
@@simonscowled9925 no, just being a tourist isn’t helping them at all
I was born and raised in Hawaii. Until I turned 23, I wasn't really working earning alot of money and stayed with family and friends. It motivated me to join the military and get out. Now I'm retired from military and moved to Texas. It's sad my wife and I can't move back because it's like a step backwards in our life. We go and visit Hawaii every year though.
Dude you get to visit Hawaii ever year, that's an amazing privilege & freedom right there. Only few can say that.
@@JohnM-sw4sc He might have earned it, but it's still a privilege (as in Freedom) to take.
@@andrewfreeman88 Yeah well modern plumbing is also a privilege. Many people in the world don’t have toilets with running water. Do you remind yourself of your bathroom privilege every time you take a crap? Lol.
@@uncertifiedprofessional I do actually. I thank God almost everyday for simple things. Helps people appreciate life!
Hawaii is literally a big U.S military base. The only highways that exist in that state are there to connect the military bases.
That is disgusting. In New Zealand we have a homelessness problem due to housing cost and shortages too. The government is spending millions housing people in motels so that no NZers have to live in their cars. They have banned overseas buyers and non-residents from buying land or property in NZ. They are building new social housing, and giving money to Iwi (Māori tribes) to build Kainga Ora homes - high quality new social housing for Māori. Our current government has a lot of senior politicians who are Māori, and are keen to keep their electoral seats designated for Māori voters, so they are putting a lot of resources towards this. Some Iwi are also building their own kainga ora housing on their ancestral land, with some government support. The tribes are wealthy and influential business people due to their Treaty of Waitangi legal settlements with the government.
hopefully America wakes up and be more like the NZ government. They are not keen on preserving precious Hawaiin culture at all. It's funny because US is pretty aggressive preserving national parks and fauna and flora of the country but not the culture of its natives
the other side of it is why should anyone be paying to house minority groups just to keep them an active constituent group making further unreasonable demands.
@@Aaron565 because as a society we value human culture. That's why we have museums and protect native fauna and flora. Housing minorities (indigenous peoples) helps to preserve their culture since one of their basic needs (housing) is met. Countries love to be prideful of their culture and traditions and NZ is no different same. I'm not gonna speak about this unreasonable demands you speak of since I do not know or have heard about anything like that.
@Caleb and kitty’s Wow 😯
Peter Thiel has purchased MULTIPLE properties in NZ over the past 2 years yet you claim overseas buyers and non-residents have been banned from buying land or property. Obvious disconnect.
That's terrible sorry to hear about Jessica Lau and the other indigenous people of Maui .
My Prayers are with you all and I hope that everything will work out fine for the families that are impacted.
Sincerely, Michael
I’ve always wanted to move to Hawaii, Maui specifically. Knowing about this is what deters me. They don’t deserve this, and if by me moving there makes it worse I won’t do it.
If you can afford to do it, do it. I don’t know anyone who lives on Maui who isn’t either a millionaire, with roommates, or works 3+ jobs.
Same when I was younger I wanted to move over there, it’s so beautiful.
@@msi8311 They said they don’t want to live there if it means displacing native Hawaiians.
@@msi8311 love your neighbors and care for others. It seems you have no sympathy
Maui has already been ruined by outsiders
Sadly this is happening almost everywhere. Once the rich latch on to an area the cost of living goes. It hits the pockets of the people who already lived there for years and it’s unfair and unjustifiable!
Shits crazy like they expect the whole world to be rich
@@prodbyhostile no, they expect us to be poor and reliant on the rich
Its called economics.
It's not just rich people going there. Vast majority is middle class
@@margielu3238
_Middle class who were lured by the rich_
I feel such pain for the Hawaiian people as the US is sneaking their way to do the same with my home island, Puerto Rico. It’s just plain evil.
Puerto Rico will rise I pray for that everyday
@@vtec8000xrpm I hope so..we need to stand up and get rid of alot of people who are in charge in p.r ..all they do is pocket the money
@@torresp7736 Without America Puerto Rico would have tirned out like Jamaica or Haiti.
@@davidturner4076 not true america forced us to become citizens ..they invaded p.r and made alot of money of our land and screwed us like they do to everyone
We are a colonial subjects of the United states
I was finally able to buy my first home at age 64. But, only because both my parents died within a year of each other. It cost two human lives to stay in the islands.
Move then,
The Earth is wondrous
Why complain about fighting to be stagnate?
I believe it. You understand. It is real.
This is so sad for the native Hawaiians. Something needs to be done with investment firms scooping up gobs of property
Not just in Hawaii.
No something needs to be done to stop these super wealthy non indigenous ppl from buying up land/homes in many countries! Go home to YOUR homeland and invest there! Stop stealing, abusing, raping, killing and taking resources from all these countries and go back to your own home land!! 😤
The same thing is happening in Puerto Rico! It’s so sad to see non-locals take our lands. Gentrification is the worst thing that can happen to an island that has no power against the US.
Well it seems like the government of PR is incentivizing it by giving tax breaks for rich to move down there. Trump was down there throwing toilet paper lol and the puerto ricans were worshipping him like a god. Gotta reap what you sow
@@eddycarpenter8989 We weren’t. It’s not our fault that what’s portrayed by the government doesn’t reflect the citizens opinion.
This isn’t just gentrification. It’s colonization. 😞
@@NashvilleBraids All over again.
What you native folks of these placed need to do is contract with one another to pool money and credit together. Buy back your land and homes and only sell to your own. Sounds wrong but look at how you can't afford to enjoy your historical lands. You must do something. The only way anyone can live there is by renting.
Resorts need to be paying a more fair share to use the land that they stole from the native peoples. And that money should go to higher wages and support of the native peoples, as well as protecting the land and what's left of Hawaii's environment.
05:20 Very few Native Hawaiians left per her own words
They didn’t steal any land. All is sold and bought. Grow up.
@@zerotodona1495 Where you there, did you see money exchange hands? The US is know for doing lying, stealing lands that belong to Native People. America is a lie, it murders it's own people and it ravishes Mother Earth.
@@zerotodona1495 when we're talking about islands or otherwise very limited stretches of land with particular characteristics, your reasoning is worth nothing. This is why many oceanic countries don't even allow non locals buy property and if they do, the buyer will have to pay a price higher than the market price in order to compensate locals. This is a no brainer and your stupid buy and sell principles don't apply everywhere. Smh people like you are incredible 😂
This is happening all over the world. Anywhere there is prime real estate. Happened to my home town too. Everyone I grew up with has moved out and moved on because no one can afford it.
2030 agenda to own nothing
Grew up here and seeing all my childhood friends slowly moving to the mainland…it hurts. Living here is so beautiful and unique in its own ways but locals are really struggling
you have to expect that, you are paying to live in paradise, so don't expect
@@joeylee5879 What an ignorant and terrible thing to say. The land was paradise because indigenous people lived sustainably. American real estate creeps are just artificially forcing them out of their homes, that's the truth of it.
@@joeylee5879 or Amerikkkans can leave Hawaii
This is happening across the other 49 states too..... Of course it isn't as extreme. I'm a couple years away from 30 and cant afford a home unless I can find a partner somehow or get a 20k raise from my already 50k salary lol.....
@@flameshoter6 You can downsize, i know plenty people living in single bedroom apt for around 700/m have 10-20k vehicle financed, some of these people have 20k/y less then you, it's not living like dream, but yes you can do it... And it's up to everyone to not get comfortable and do their best to improve... Trust me, there are people out there with dispositions which would love to be in your place... Good luck though
As a Costa Rican, I feel these so deep. The most beautiful places of my country are not own by natives, but by people from first World countries. I have to pay to them to be able to visit to places of my own country
This is happening all over the world, Mainland Chinese are the main problem.
Same here with Jamaica where tourism is paramount to the government.
This happens everywhere.. Including in the United States. Born and raised in San Diego, CA.. And rich people from Arizona, Florida, New York etc buy it all up... Then people like myself cant afford it and have to move to a place like Nevada. Unfortunately the world is small and we are more connected than ever, it is how the world works.
@ADM that's not quite the same, that's being priced out of a state, not being barred from viewing natural attractions. It's still an issue, but you aren't veing forced out of your native lands
That’s sad beyond words
I thought I was the only one that felt pushed out of their own city where I was raised, I cant make it, too expensive, rent is too high, outsiders are pushing us out. Makes me feel so angry and robbed and I can empathize with the Hawaiian people, but it's happening to all of us where prime properties exist.
I feel the same about Los Cabos, we are a super turistic area so there is always outsiders visiting us, I don't hate that, what I dislike is that when they come to visit they return to their countries with the idea of "Buying a nice place" here and because of that people from my city had really difficult times trying to find places to work, for example, because If you live here, you gotta work of course, everyone have fees to pay.
There is no space for us now, all the surrounding areas have already been taken, including the ones that are far away.
Welcome to capitalism boyo
@@Praisethesunson Not very sunbro of you to say that haha
@@thomasg5201 You can only overcome capitalism if you and your fellow serfs engage in some very aggressive jolly cooperation against the ownership class.
They should make it a law where if you want a home, it must be your primary residence and you must become a Hawaiian citizen.
So sad. So true. I've lived on Maui for 38 years. The Hawaiian people have been treated like 3rd class citizens. They had their islands taken from them by military force against the Queens wishes. And most tourists have no idea.
Reality is if it wasn’t the US, then it would have been Japan, if not Japan then some other foreign superpower. Best to hawaiian natives but theirs, like all civilizations, are doomed to change.
@@msi8311 If it wasn't for the US, we would truly be free! You're making as if we won't be able to survive on our own! We never wanted the US here and still hold that to this day. Hawai'i is a Kingdom
@@KamenRider808 true they act like US is our savior from other country when that a shitty excuse because look at how they destroy the arab world and other country claiming they doing what right
I grew up constantly moving due to increased rent and we had to move to the mainland almost 5 years ago and I miss my home everyday but its crazy how here we can afford basically everything we need when were using pennies and foodstamps anywhere we could back home. and the amount of outer island people that don't learn about our culture or history hurts to my core.
I'm so sorry about this. This isn't right and people who contribute to this are awful. Greed will be the death of us all and cause sadness to so many billions of people in the process. 🥺🫂
❤️ Can you pool your money together to purchase land and homes?
Thank you for exposing how it is for Hawaiians (& other locals) in Hawai'i and how hard it is because of haoles (foreigners) and the tourist industry, this is why things need to change here. It took decades for my aunty to get her home, she was on the waitlist since the 1980s. I also don't make the blood quantum (almost 40%); my father passed and the family home was passed down to my uncle. It's hard, even in low-income housing, with 3 jobs between me and my mom, and going to college but I'd still rather struggle than leave the islands. This is our home, I'll make sure my kids and grandchildren will still be here. I won't be pushed to leave the lands my ancestors lived on for hundreds of years, this is our land so hopefully, these issues can get better in the future.
Why is inequality not talked about anymore ? Big media companies seem to have been silenced by their very owners.
Quite sad, much solidarity to our Hawaiian brothers and sisters. People should take a hard look at Hawaii before pushing for statehood for PR.
PR is a tax haven.
The same thing is starting to happen in PR regardless of the fact its not a state. It’s just not as much of a vacation spot because of the violence there
Question, before you look at statehood? Do you believe that the residents of our territories should have a vote in Congress? Should they have voting representation, and the right to vote for the President? Do you believe that they should be fully protected by the US constitution? And do you believe that they should be able to keep US Citizenship? If you say yes, then statehood is the best path, if the residents want independence, then I hope that their U.S. citizenship gets revoked
@@dylanshaffer2184 depends, if they’re a state they should have representation in Congress, voting representation, etc. If they’re independent, then they obviously wouldn’t have representation in Congress, or vote for the president etc. As for citizenship under independence, you may very well hope they have their citizenship revoked under independence, but that’s easier said than done, in fact, the most successful bill regarding PR’s status stated that they would keep citizenship, but people born after the declaration of independence wouldn’t be citizens, not that hard.
“all matters pertaining to Puerto Rican citizenship shall be regulated pursuant to the Constitution and laws of the Republic. States that upon the certification of the referendum under this Act, Puerto Rico shall no longer be deemed to be a part of the United States for the purposes of acquiring U.S. citizenship by place of birth. States that no person born outside of the United States after the Proclamation of Independence shall be a U.S. citizen at birth if the parents of such person acquired U.S. citizenship solely by virtue of being born in Puerto Rico prior to the Proclamation. Authorizes certain non-U.S. citizens to enter into, lawfully engage in occupations, and establish residence as immigrants in the United States.”
www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/712
@@Coracora-he9pz interesting point, unfortunately the residents citizenship in the territories are guaranteed by an act of law and not by the constitution, their citizenship could be revoked with a repeal of the act that gave them citizenship. I for one believe that citizenship follows sovereignty and that if the U.S. no longer has sovereignty over that territory, then the residents should have their citizenship revoked out right.
Though in 2020 PR voted for statehood, unfortunately though it wasn’t a binding referendum so congress has no obligation to act. I for one believe that all of the overseas territories should become states of the union, so that yes their citizenship would be protected by the constitution, they would gain equal voting representation in Congress, the right to vote for the President, be able to access federal assistance if needed, and as a state would have more political sovereignty, while still being a part of one of the largest economies of the world. Not only that, these new states would be a beacon of democracy, in a world increasingly influenced by authoritarian regimes like China and Russia.
Also as a state of the union, it could pass laws that would benefit the native population, for Hawaii, the state could make a law that if the residents who are of native decent, then their places if residents would be bought out right so that they wouldn’t have to worry about making enough money to keep it. States can pass laws that help the native inhabitants, as long as it doesn’t break the US constitution.
As a Korean American I feel a debt of gratitude to the Hawaiian people for taking us in and accepting us when we were at a very harsh and desperate place in our journey and if I could make a enough money to buy back some of the land I woud build them homes and give the land back to them. I hope other Koreans with significant money now feel this way too and do it themselves.
No you wouldn't. Stop patronizing
@@fnovax that's not what that word means, you tried though.
Have you ever given thought that moving to Hawaii, you may have displaced a native Hawaiian?
Watching this brought tears to my eyes. Smh we as a people here on planet earth can do much better for our fellow brothers and sisters oppression must come to an end.
This is the story of humanity and it never changes. Humans compete with each other for scarce resources. We are the only species that can comprehend this and act on the knowledge to better our fellow man. However, we won't.
I feel bad for them but what are we supposed to do? Build a wall? Europeans are told to shut up and take it, mostly by liberals.
Oppression? You mean from foreign investors? Then ban it. Otherwise who do you see as the boogey man in this scenario?
Civil unrest and violence coming soon
Stop voting for war criminals and authoritarians.
Americas have been non stop for over 100 years
The best thing you can do is to build your own solution. If you have been on a waitlist for 19 years waiting for someone else to solve your problems, at some point you have to realize no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. Where there’s a will there’s a way, always.
True, but the government has allocated a small amount lands to the Hawaiian people since they pillaged all their wealth, land and resources. The problem is, the government is purposefully taking their time in actually building homes for Hawaiians because they are waiting for the bloodline to get diluted. The gov. will wait till all the 50% Hawaiians die and walla they don't need to give hawaiians any land!
Wish more people knew this side of Hawaii. It's a sad reality when the majority of the homeless population are the indigenous minority.
I'm born and raised Kaua'i boy, I've been blown away at the amount of people who have moved here and the money they bring, makes our lives harder, you can't find a house for sale under 400000 and if you do it's a complete tear down, surrounded by other houses and huge trees that will need work as well, food is really expensive, and I get no government help(food stamps) my wife has started two Business from home through the plandemic it's been rough but we depend and rely on God and he takes care, we Hawaiians need to come together though this and need to speak out. Get our politicians on board. Tax people who move here and buy property, just like our colleges UH you pay more for not being a resident and to be considered resident you need to have lived here for 10 years and more then 6 months out of the year. I believe we should make that a requirement for any person moving here looking to purchase. And those who have moved here in the last 25 years should have to pay it as well. And have that money go directly to affordable housing for ancestral bloodlines to Polynesian peoples. WHY NOT?
That’s sad 😞
Andrew, first i find it strange that La Kamekona is talking genocide because she can't pass down the house to the kids because of blood quantum restrictions but she knew about this but decided to get herself a Haole. Home girl is talking out of both sides of her mouth
second, nawl the scenario you wrote is ideal but you and i we both know its never happening. if its not happening in southern africathen you best believe Hawai'i isn' going to benefit from it. I should mention that filthy rich Haoel from south africa are buying tons and tons of properties in Hawai'i. y'all pay close attention because whenever black people lose a place to live the exact same fate eventually happens to other brown people.
Haole money from the colonial era in the african continent is what is used to buy other places.
@@jesusislord3720 Genuinely curious why you would comment that. Hope you can find love for yourself so you don’t need to take it out in others
It happens every where. I’m in Alabama in the country and although wages etc haven’t gone up, the groceries, the land all of it is increasing. It’s maddening.
These people need to have property deeded to them that CAN NOT be taken. Period.
Every single native of this land.
They also deserve to have the final say in EVERY aspect of life on these islands.
It’s disgusting that the natives of this place are driven to become the maids the gardeners, the “tour guides” of their own home and then have to live slum like. It should make everyone ANGRY…..and the rich people invading them should be shamed.
Same thing here in New Zealand.
There's no such thing as gentrification. It's called economics karen. They live on an island with limited land in a place that other people go to vacation. Of course it's going to be expensive. And the 50% bloodline thing is dictated by the tribe and not the United States government so no it is not genocide. If you can't afford it then move.
@@deuscoromat742 Gentrification: "the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process."
By definition, gentrification would be accurate, Karen.
@@deuscoromat742. Really?????? There are corporations using massive buying power to swoop up all the property in order to stabilize their hedge funds. The market that have typically been reserved for small investors have been inflated so the common person can no longer compete.
All this would stop if hedge funds and corporate money would not be allowed to purchase in the residential real estate market.
Gentrification is a different thing and very very real.
You most not understand economics or sociology. But they have classes for you at the community college.
Karen.
@@deuscoromat742 "karen"? What gave you that impression? I bet you own property in a state you're not residing in.....
I once thought about moving to Hawaii but had been hearing of this same story just from word of mouth so much. This video made me cry. Who knew that by being from the mainland or just a non native really and buying out land here, you would be driving away the Native people's from here even more? I don't want to contribute to that while so many there are already homeless. It's unfair and truly heartbreaking and wrong. I pray that there will one day soon be stricter laws put in place to prevent more of this as well as WAY more help for the people already in this situation. I have been hearing of places like California and Oregon building tiny homes for the homeless. It may not be much, but it's definitely better protection from the elements and can really give someone the security they so desperately need. My heart goes out to you all. Sending love. ❤️
I feel so sorry for everyone going through this is Hawaii. I’m not Hawaiian and never been to Hawaii but I honestly can’t imagine being someone rich and going to Hawaii to buy land and live out my life knowing that could possibly displace a natives livelihood. This is just so sad to see😔
lm pretty sure no one knows this except for the people who have watched this video
@@JaliyahDW I find that hard to believe. Would you go and buy a house without finding out what kinda neighborhood or town you would be living in?
Are you serious..........
People are being priced out of everywhere, not just Hawaii
@@ronniemassart3834 yes Ronnie…….
So sad, when I visited Wakiki it was like being in Japan, I was wondering where all the Hawiians were, I wanted to experience Hawiian culture and was disappointed, it's exactly what they did to the Native Americans just take what they want and push people out of their homes and take their land
Just asking - do you mean there was lots of Japanese people there?
@@raybp7512 yes
European White Supremacy
Japanese people had nothing to do with Native Americans in America.
When you go to Paris and see nothing but Muslim Africans . Same in London or Berlin, you can’t complain about the genocide of the local people and culture or you’ll be accused of xenophobic
Greed is at an all time high companies refuse to pay livable wages and the people who run the companies are buying multiple vacation homes.
Yes this is the core point that everyone seems to be missing. Corporate greed at ALL TIME HIGHS
When Iived on Maui in 2007 I waited tables at The Outback Restaurant and they paid me less than min hourly wage because they said I made TIPs. One 2 week paycheck I remember it said I worked 79 hours and my take home pay was $81 dollars for 2 weeks work. I was one on 13 waiters/ waitresses and usually in the top 2 tip earners. An avetage night was 100 to 120. So basically 5 nights tips working 8 hours a day I took home about $550. My rent for a non-air conditioned pmace was 800 dollars a month. Luckily my GF had a job as a Nurse so we shared the housing expense.
Oh and when the last customer had left the restaurant we had an hour to hour and half no tips but cleaning, vacuuming our sections at that dollar and something an hour wage.
How sad for you 🙄, good thing you can always go back to YOUR OWN ancestral homelands.
Hud is super sketcy here on the 🏝. So many people I know who had HUD vouchers, but none of them were able to find housing that would take it. Just recently a friend over on Molokai reported a man from Chicago got his HUD transferred over and he ended up with housing right on the shoreline. So not only can native hawaiians with HUD vouchers getting denied, double slap in the face when mainland people come with ease on hud transfers.
I thought you had to be born on Molokai to live? Did that change?
This isn't right :'(
This is happening all over the US and in many other countries. I lived in Hawaii during the 70s and 80s and the problem was present then. Many people had 3 part time jobs usually catering to tourists. In Hawaii, companies must provide health insurance and other benefits to all employees that work 20+ hours a week, so guess what all the businesses do they only let people work 15 hours a week. FYI there haven’t been $46 a night motel rooms in California for a couple of decades
More like $66+
This is the great reset. Housing will be out of reach. Gas. Electricity. They are buying up the houses and they're going to default all the mortgages. Same thing happened in Russia. This is how a country goes communist. Its happening.
@@ugotlj4133 hahahahahaha “goes communist” ejit!
Gentrification is a mf.
@@shellshipman3853 im thinking its better to own if you can.
My father who is 57% Hawaiian, never applied for Hawaiian Homestead lands, his reasoning was I can afford to buy a house, I'm not taking away the chance for another Kanaka Maoli brother or sister to own something here in our homeland. Very sad and unfortunate.
They won’t even be owning anything. It’s a 100 year lease.
I am from Goa,a former Portuguese colony in the west coast of India and this very same thing is happening here ; natives are struggling whereas land/housing prices are going high and high due to the same reason as in Hawaii . I can feel the pain these natives .
Then get busy??
life is for the living and if one doesn't want to be on the train of progress, then go somewhere else and hide?
The Earth is all one place and ALL life will mingle, how anyone thinks the petty amount of water on the surface dictates life has never met a human with superior abilities-
Keep in mind, nature made us, nature directs us and nature will consume us!!!
Stop being a blob of flesh and be what nature needs you to be. We already have slugs you know, use those legs, arms and mind to have an impact, or --why be here????
As a non- indigenous human , I believe ALL Indigenous Individuals of Hawaii should have access to their land!!
Access? They are there now no one is kicking them out from Hawaii? I'm not seeing a native hawaiian deportation right now.
Well said Jim! Couldn’t agree more
@@AngelloDelNorte they can't afford to live in their own country. You can call it a state all you want but that is B.S. and you know it. I'm a white nationalist. Europe for whites,Africa for blacks, and so on. Is how it should be. Then their wouldn't be half the problems that their are in the world. Diversity is never a strength. It's only a weakness. Just look around.
@@tmks7416
Most cany afford living anymore is a issue in general not just for natives.
Wdym by diversity is weakness? I know it has massive issues and all it does is divide and demographics bringing more issues, but not sure if that's what you mean?
@@AngelloDelNorte yes that's what I mean. The natives are the ones who are poor. The others are using the housing as a second home or rentals. That's not necessary. The indigenous people should not suffer for greed. Same thing going on in Vancouver b.c. with Chinese. Hell the Chinese own most farmland in the USA. This is also absurd.
As disgusted as I am with what happened with the Hawaiian islands and their indigenous people, this crisis is happening everywhere. The homeless rate has skyrocketed here. Nothing is affordable unless it is located in the middle of nowhere, where employment options are almost zero. It’s insane. I feel a deep sense of sorrow for every single person who is going through this right now. I was homeless several times in recent years with my children. Facing that again right now, and doing everything possible to prevent that.
That's what happens when you simultaneously shut down the economy, eliminate competition, while causing massive inflation by pumping useless trillions of waste into it
Homeless rate has skyrocketed there but guess who's doing hookers and cocaine? Hunter Biden that's who 🤣 Biden family corruption look into it. Nancy Pelosi is now a multimillionaire. She is rich because she signed a bill to award billions of dollars in chips to NVIDIA and bought millions of stocks. Her and her husband are crooked to the core.
Here's a crazy idea, move to someplace cheaper
but but but it is sooooo liberal with a lisp
California still be shipping their homeless here since the 80's. Islands of rich and poor and not much in the middle.
Same thing is happening to my home in the US Virgin Islands. St. John is almost gone to short term rentals. St. Thomas, where I live, is not too far behind. Many people leaving, including my family and I in a few years.
Are your parents _RENTERS?_
Or do they *own* their home?
@@HughJass-jv2lt they owned a home when they we were all here. They sold it. I've been renting but saving up for a home. Only had 1 landlord not renew my lease but we found a place. Others weren't as lucky.
And go where ?
It’s only going to get worse. I live in freaking Texas and the houses are becoming 1 mil here. $600k if you want something liveable. Anything under that is going to be sketch. Just five years ago you could buy a great home for $250k. It’s literally freaking pathetic. It stuns me how I’m most likely not going to be able to buy a home in my home state… FREAKING TEXAS. Like we’re known for being cheap and affordable. I want to leave, however, everywhere else is even more expensive. The US is becoming unlivable with these prices. Just praying something works out for us all.
this is terrible. it is their home.. now the rich are robbing these people.
nothing new
Sad but true
Not even the rich.. but the Ignorance of those asking for airbnbs and vrbos too. A lot of home owners use their property for short term and some don't even live there. I know of several people who get kicked out so the owner can turn over to short term.
Minimum wage was never meant to be for college graduates though.
Damn right
This is HAPPENING in EVERY major city. This is a SHAME. This NEEDS to STOP. EVERY
It’s been happening. Maybe in these parts of the woods, but everyone was taken away from their home land. I’m sorry this is happening again.
A lot of small towns too especially around tourists spots mountains coast etc
Karen 😂😂😂😂
Born and raised on Oahu. This has been going on for a long, long time. Glad someone shed light on this.
💔💔💔 this country continues to treat the Indigenous peoples of this land so cruely. It breaks my heart. I wish I could do more. Being forced to move from your ancestral lands can't be the solution.
This is happening all over the nation. I had to move away from my home town because it was to expensive to start a family in California over 19 years ago. And nothing has changed in the 19 years since I left. It has only gotten worse. The gov’t talks affordable housing but with all the regulations in California, I don’t see how anyone will be able to afford a house here unless it is passed down in a will. Sad to see locals being forced away from where they grew up. The real estate market is GREEDY and they will only pass on the excessive fees and construction costs due to regs to the home buyer making housing available to the RICH or well off. They talk the talk but do not walk the walk.
💯💯💯💯💯 Facts…. And so very true what you said.
The USA Central private banks, Ronald Reagan and rigged cheap home loans are responsible for the crazy housing situation in California.
more reading can be found in Michael Hudson superimperialism.
The aboriginals that stayed knew the game is rigged... that’s why they don’t participate
“Why can’t San Franciscans afford to live in San Francisco?” I can relate. More smug snot nosed tech brats plopping out from everywhere in the world BUT the Bay Area.
I live in California because rent is ridiculous. Even for people who get section 8. The housing market is so expensive. That's why me and my family want to move somewhere that I can work enough to make enough money, and be able to afford a home.
I am a howlie,this makes me sick. Just because something is "legal" doesn’t make it right. I recently sold my mothers beautiful three bedroom house in Pahoa on the big island for $179,000. Fortunately a native Hawaiian was able to purchase it. I live on the mainland so I don’t see the difficulties the locals endure. I’m glad you shared.
The problem is because of Democrats. Banks make money when real estate prices go up. Country is built on real estate type securities. There's no incentive for politicians to simply build more houses and quench the thirst. I wish there was a housing program that helped y'all live in the land more affordably, but knowing how y'all also voted democrat, you gonna experience something similar to California soon.
Haole
@@honkhonk8009 income taxes, property taxes and economically illiterate regulations make costs of living go up too. Democrats are the worst but republican politicians are still crooks and will fight to fatten their pockets too lmao. You are right about Hawaii turning into California. It's california on roids
No offense but pahoa. Good thing you sold.
@@thisbandsuxk7966 Pahoa is not a good town? I live on the mainland and visited once just before my mom passed,seemed nice to me. Mom loved it and the house is beautiful.
Because our main (and pretty much ONLY) industry in Hawaii is Tourism. It makes servants out of us. The Construction companies do well, but they're basically helping the Tourism Industry to grow. We need other industries here, like STEM and Tech industries.
Is the Singapore model workable here?
@@scottyflintstone race nihilism never works, it only makes heartache
@@NwoDispatcher according to this video, race is the issue
@@scottyflintstone it's their freedom to believe so. Race tribalism is freedom
I visited Oahu with my wife a few years ago as was shocked and saddened by the large homeless camps of Native Hawaiians, not too far from the tourist hotels of Waikiki Beach. I learned the real story behind the US’s acquisition of the Hawaiian islands on my 2nd day there and I told my wife that I wanted to leave and go back home. I literally felt sick to my stomach hearing that story!
I live in Australia and one of our states is having this experience now. I've been watching Hawaii's experience with this for some years now in absolute disgust and sadness for her people. For us our government denies what's happening and lies. Our locals are pushed out on the street and our essential workers are depleted because they can't get a house either. It's like all people want is a society of holidays
Horrible what was done to the Aboriginals.
People that live in Hawaii, New Zealand, Jamaica, Gullah Island and some other places can’t afford to live in their native countries or states. Places that whites or Asians consider vacation places they buy up the land and run up property values so that Natives can’t afford to live there. The same thing is happening in the United States rich people now want the more elevated lands and are now displacing people to get land they originally didn’t want, in some places people can’t afford to even live in the ghetto. Let’s not get started on the money cities give to keep to keep up expensive parts of cities and schools and neglect others.
Your looking at how the devil is in many peoples lives! All they see is material gain! Greed & Gluttany running amuck in many societies! My daughter is renting a one bedroom apartment for $1500-1600💰💰💰for college purposes! I fear what the future holds for the next generations!
I couldn’t sleep peacefully at night knowing I’ve literally robbed someone of what they need to feed & shelter their families with also.
It's happening in byron bay and tweed heads its the new norm now
This is happening all over the world, Mainland Chinese are the main problem.
This is such a shame. They need to have affordable pricing for the natives. It's their home first and foremost.
Its America. Its home to all Americans.
@@brianp5205 it shouldn’t be
@@williamstevenson3049 that’s tuff🤷♂️
@@brianp5205 Actually no, it’s NOT America, it’s the Hawaiian Kingdom, which has been illegally OCCUPIED by the US since 1893. Americans even setting FOOT in our country is a violation of international law.
@@thehawaiianroyalist3157 Are you the one who takes my luggage for me to my hotel in waikiki from baggage claim?
Unfortunately, it's like this throughout the U.S as well. I'm a native New Mexican and I see that in my own state where natives can't afford to live here because of the richer people moving into the tourist spots who then jack up the price for houses. It's ridiculous and really sad!
Hey I'm black 🖤 we didn't even get the privilege of gentle gentrification
Yea I was gonna say I'm in Minnesota and it's exactly the same pricing as Hawaii
@@nightshade8445 I doubt that. Between $4.50 for gas, $1600 for a crappy place, $360/month for electric, a high state income tax, and so much more. $1k a week is nothing here.
@@assassindolphin2106 come on out to Minnesota and check it out!
I think native Hawaiians have been there before North America was even colonized. It's not like being a state native, it's their history and culture, where they've been for a long long time. It's different. I agree though that the tourist housing industry is lousing it up for everyone both in the states and on the island
I can totally relate to this. I'm also Native Hawaiian. My ancestors sailed here on a cruise ship over 9 months ago. We drink chi-chi's from a coconut and eat poke provided to us by the local Safeway.
Thank You AJ+ !! Thank you for shedding light on the problems here in Hawaii. It’s so expensive here and almost impossible to live off of even 2 jobs. My whole childhood I been in poverty until I got old enough to get a job. Ever since then I worked every single day. The problems here run deep and I thank people like this that can take the time to talk to REAL people in Hawaii and make people aware that they are not just visiting a beautiful paradise, but a place where people are working just to LIVE.
Your only hope of emancipation is to organize your fellow poor's into class war against your masters. You all either rise together or get individually exploited.
A similar thing is occurring (albeit on a smaller scale) in my home county of Cornwall in the UK. It's the holiday centre of the UK and many locals are going homeless while most of their hometown is empty half the year because they're second homes the owners only visit in summer. Entire villages are dying and nothing's being done, most families have to leave communities they've lived in for generations. It's awful.
I agree. A lot of rich people who don't want to share.
And a government that would rather go with a "Hands-off" approach to the situation.
This is happening all over the world, Mainland Chinese are the main problem.
I fear that this will happen to my hometown in California. We have a very small population, and prices keep rising up 😢
Its not just Hawaiians that are going homeless, some born here not of Hawaiian heritage, working full-time all our lives have also been homeless. Currently, our minimum wage is $10.10. Its supposed to go up to $12.00. Even at $12.00 per hr, thats ridiculous, there's no way you can afford to rent an apartment or a house(no matter whether you're Hawaiian or not). No bank would EVER consider you for a mortgage, if one of you was on minimum wage. One thing that was set aside for Hawaiians is the Hawaiian Homelands, but the waiting list takes years for them to be qualified (sadly). Now multi millionaires like Mark Zuckerberg are coming to places like the North Shore of Kauai & buying huge tracts of land, thats a repeat of what happened at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian 🇬🇧 Kingdom. Just, this time its Zuckerberg instead of the usual suspects; (Dole) Castle & Cooke, The Robinson Family, Grove Farm, The U.S. Military, Parker Ranch, Larry Ellison (Lanai), Alexander & Baldwin, The Bishop Estate, the list goes on...
Great insights
No matter what minimum wage is it doent matter because that just make everything that much more expensive. Minimum wage is the biggest lie fed to the lower class by the government. If you actually sit and look at the big picture what you can buy with your money today is about the same 20 years ago even though prices went up. 40-50 years ago thats a different story though. Hawaiis prices (and most prices) and gas and minimum wage driven. Thats why even buying local is expensive because of minimum wage and local farmers cant buy the big automated machines they have on the mainland.
Agenda 2030🎯
Hey no complain you no like leave you fucka
Wow I’m shocked minimum wage is so low there!😧
Exactly...that's why the fire people. Investigation is needed pronto. Much love from Texas.
This is devastating. We absolutely need to find solutions for this.
The solution is that the government should not be part of corruption.
Its not only Hawaii sadly all native lands are going through this. It sux because our own governments are just as corrupt as the white mans government
Free Hawaii from America :)
Highly doubt it can change unless the state or federal government take action to only let outside country investors/corporations/rich individuals to only be able to buy certain amount of land/property. The poor will get displaced, fed to the wolves/survival of the fittest if not able to adapt and get better paying jobs mostly in the STEM field now. On the other hand, our law pushes for government to have as little intervention in people’s buying of property. It just doesn’t work out if everything is done by the paper/contracts/law without a mix of humanity and common sense. I don’t know though, I’m no expert.
I know the answer, but if I type it, it'll be deleted 🤨
as a floridian,
I can understand her pain...
living here during the pandemic.
When so many people from other states moved here to my city, the rates for apartments went through the roof. Even though I have a good job,
it's very difficult to afford a 1-bedroom apartment. The only part I can't relate with is, is the taking of her homeland by another nation. That's gotta be hard.
@Juu Tuub I think he meant Hawaii as an once independent nation (her homeland) until the U.S. (another nation) annexed it in 1898.
@Juu Tuub Annexation happened after all the Hawaiian Island chains had been unified as the Kingdom of Hawaii, thus there was no more war between the islanders. Whether it's good or bad that the U.S. annexed Hawaii, I didn't even say anything about that. Apparently for some people, it's good. But for some people including lot of native Hawaiians nowadays, it's not looking very good. By either way, the overthrow of the Hawaiian King and Queen were done illegitimately, and the U.S. government has even issued an official apology on the matter. Good or bad, right or wrong, I will let the world be the judge.
@Juu Tuub So I rob a bank or burglarize your house without casualties, by your definition it is okay. Again, I will let the world, more precisely the Native Hawaiians, be the judge.
@Juu Tuub Answers are written on your face. bye.
This how I feel and I live in texas
Yup. Born and raised on BI and man have prices gone up like crazy. I was lucky enough to buy land and build a house before prices skyrocketed but my grandmother on other hand is paying $1500 a month for a one bedroom apartment. It’s nuts. I’m trying to buy more land before all these mainlanders take it all because its going fast 😕 Thank you AJ+ for doing a video about this.
Very smart
You best invite your elder to stay with you; w/o her, you wouldn’t be