“It’s kind of like an eyesore because you see all the tents sent up,” said a West Oahu Fisherman. For more Local News from Hawaii News Now: https:/www.hawaiinewsnow.com For more RU-vid Content: / @hawaiinews
Same kind of crap going on here in California. These beautiful places are for the entire community to enjoy. Not for just a few entitled homeless people to make a mess of the entire place and make it uncomfortable for us to use. Enough of this BS.
Hey buddy you seem to be very selfish and no empathy. Yes things must change but what have you done to push policy for a place that these folks can put up tents. I never believed in an illegal person or illegal homeless person. Please 🙏 don't pile on and be hateful & ugly.
How about they actually enforce the laws. The beach is closed from 10pm to 5am. Why do we turn a blind eye. They shouldn't be there in the first place.
Or the elephant waste piling up on Africa. The average elephant poops 200 plus pounds per day. I sure hope Trump can put and end to anything that poops!
When this happened on our beach in Santa Barbara, I wrote a sarcastic letter to all our city counsel membert and mayor saying how I thought the tarps and tents added a nice European flair to our beach, and that since camping on the beach is now ok, I was having an architect draw up plans for a house on stilts that I was planning on putting up down there with a nice view of the harbor and wharf. Those people were rounded up and driven off the beach within A WEEK!
Crazy,I've seen people actually build homes in the woods or even on the sides of major highways. You know all that effort could have gone towards a job,if that was the case wed all do it!
As a west Oahu resident, I have witnessed sweeps and then the next day the people are back. A week sweep is nothing. Doing these sweeps won't solve anything. They will likely move down to Maili Beach which is another beautiful stretch that is slowly being over run by the homeless.
Maybe the entitled landlords can stop charging what would take 5 minimum wage jobs to rent their apartments? Maybe capitalism is finally breaking in EXACTLY the ways that Karl Marx predicted 176 years ago. Maybe you think I am a communist? Have a nice life!
No can help when the state is for it! They want this so everyone complains then their solution is to put up hotels to chase out the homeless . Everyone wins except natives
@@barbie6695not so black and white, goes both ways. Tons of homeless evil ppl and rich blessers. I always hear and believe they mostly don't want help due to drugs and mental disorders
On a public beach, anything you can't pick up and move within a couple of minutes should be considered litter. Litter should be dealt with accordingly.
@@MThomasBSince I am native American , I will inform you of BlackRock grift. Watch Brush Junkie we all know about Maui. Jacob Greenberg and BlackRock commies working a Nazi agenda and classism is the model. The clown known as Obama implemented the Coward Pivens strategy and tent cities across America is corporate grift and is demonstrating tremendous greed of the one percent.
Make laws like, No Overnight Camping, No Camping, No Drugs, No Alcohol, No Trash, No, No, No...etc. And then, enforce those laws... No 'book & release' ... Rather, 'book & mandatory jail time of 90 days' for starters...
Sounds good but never goin to happen. Islands are small and so should be able to manage the homeless situation. Most of the mainland with money in the budgets is useless as we know already from the deplorable mess plaguing any city freakin usa. Maybe people need more scrutinizing when they decide to come pollute the islands. Poor and destitute can not survive on the mainland how is it possible to make it on island? Why? Because state and city officials allow it. Such pilau nonsense it blows my mind. Some countries expect you to have $$$$$ to live on long term when you decide to go there. Peoples' credentials are checked out. Such as in background checks. Job history and the fact that some have jobs lined up wherever they are landing. We all know Hawai'i is not the same. There is not enough to go around for the local kanaka never mind outsiders who most have no plans other than to pollute the landscape.
As an elderly working homeless American, I expect you to think that. Of course you don't want my kind around. The middle class are really money crazed and gasoline addicts. You can't understand us at all.
@@MeneTekelUpharsin I'm homeless because of the price of housing. I'm elderly and doing pretty well - and I fear the middle class and your police more than poverty. Socialism is your enemy, so your city can spend more each year to remove me than it costs to permanently house me. And I understand it's because you hate us.
Private beaches is a wierd concept. If we're not careful, many millions of Americans will go homeless just because we can. We don't have to pay rent. We don't have to buy houses. We actually own the public property already. And we do have individual rights. This whole housing scam needs to change. Everyone needs to be involved in this...
How they’re allowed to stay there that long just not acceptable. We got homeless everywhere and they just keep returning. Along prime beach front property in Waimānalo too for years and years now. Beach areas are one of the last places for people to relax. Our tax money maintains the beaches for our enjoyment not for homeless. Ridiculous
Waimanalo used to be my favorite beach to go when I was a kid. I dont go anymore cause of the chronics. I know not all of the homeless there are bad but it sucks.
For those who think that racial Hawaiians are poor folks who have to move out of Hawaii, here's some NEWS for you: The largest private landowner in Hawaii is the Kamehameha Schools. According to pages 15-17 of their own Annual Report for 2022, they have 363,852 acres of Hawaii land, assets worth 15.1 BILLION dollars, and they gave 26.9 MILLION dollars of scholarships to their students (racial Hawaiians ONLY). And only Hawaiians can lease 1 acre for $1 per year.
I wonder why they’re not building affordable homes or rentals specifically for native Hawaiians. It sounds like they own a lot of private land so why not use a small percentage for native Hawaiians who need affordable housing.
The 1 acre for $1/year deal is for Hawaiian Homes lands. That's completely separate from the 363,852 acres owned by Kamehameha Schools. The Hawaiian Homes lands total about 203,500 acres: HAWAII 107,300 acres; MOLOKAI 33,700 acres; MAUI 31,000 acres; KAUAI 22,500 acres; OAHU 9,000 acres. The Oahu lands are: WAIMANALO 4,000 acres; NANAKULI 3,000 acres; LUALUALEI 2,000 acres. See section 203 of the HHCA "available lands".
Why don't the West Oahu beach dwellers who are Hawaiians ask the Kamehameha Schools ("KS") for some help? After all, KS has assets worth over $15 BILLION. And why doesn't KS just be "proactive" and go help those West Side Hawaiians? Most of Oahu's Hawaiian Homes lands are on that side too. Nanakuli 3,000 acres + Lualualei 2,000 acres = 5,000 acres (for Hawaiians ONLY). Why don't the RICH Hawaiians help the POOR Hawaiians? Manini?
@@calidreams5379 Under federal law, housing discrimination based on race is illegal, and racial segregation of any public or private school is also illegal. Kamehameha Schools has been getting away with the crime of racial discrimination for decades because they are so rich they can literally pay off the plaintiffs when they get sued. The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act is also contrary to anti-discrimination laws.
It’s like musical chairs. Take a spot away and everyone moves to the next one. Until there is a long term place for homeless to stay they will just keep shifting from beach to beach or park to park.
35 years for me. First there 1968 for UH and I found a job right away. I brought 💲💲 to live for 3 months if I didn't find a job right away ‼️ That is what should be done...🤙
My family used to camp at Nanakuli Beach Park, it was great. Can imagine what the bathroom looks like now, wasn't the greatest when we camped, typical county beach park bathroom.
dhhl.hawaii.gov/applications/applying-for-hawaiian-home-lands/#:~:text=You%20must%20be%20a%20native,at%20least%2050%20percent%20Hawaiian. Go get a home get off the beach no reason for that
If their hawaiian they can apply for a home get off the beach dhhl.hawaii.gov/applications/applying-for-hawaiian-home-lands/#:~:text=You%20must%20be%20a%20native,at%20least%2050%20percent%20Hawaiian
6 years ago, during the height of Van life on RU-vid. I bought Round-trip plane tickets to Hawaii for 2 weeks. Rented, a Van went by the camping store. Bought a stove and cooler. And camped all around Hawaii for those 2 weeks. Best type of my life.
Once they clean it up, what are they going to do to keep it clean???? If nothing, what's the sense???? Someone is making money on this clean up. As a tax payer, I want to know who it is, and how they got the contract. Here's an idea. Why not pay the homeless to clean it up. Have the city and state trucks take the trash to the landfill. They are getting paid with tax money anyway. Have them do some real work for a change.
They are supposed to hide from normal people out of embarrassment. In hawaii go to the middle of the Island by the volcanoes. On the mainland go out in the woods or out the desert , like death valley or Palmdale.
We have a similar situation in California. Some homeless are locals who can't afford to live in their hometown but most are from out of State. They come looking for sand,waves and sun. Often without any real plan and after a while run out of money and start camping. Only it's not camping it's homesteading. Sprawling areas of tarps,tents,couches, BBQs, electronics,piles of trash and stolen bicycles. Right on public parks,beaches and river areas. There's free legal camping but they like where they're at. We don't owe these people anything! First you have to have a legal camping place for the homeless to go. Second is to separate those who want to get their life together and those who don't want to follow rules. Third is make it clear that illegal camping is not tolerated. Give anyone who wants a free one way ticket to the mainland but they can't come back. Well maybe after ten years. Have a nicer campground on a remote beach for anyone of Hawaiian heritage. With a Free shuttle bus to town.
Without constant sweeps they'll just come back, Venice Beach in California was taken over with tents and was cleaned up only for the homeless coming back, the city was ready for that and they do sweeps at least once a week, they finally got control of the problem but if they stop it will revert right back to how it was
So these bums can collect more tax payers dollars to live free on top of all the addition welfare they recieve? If you love em so much why don't you donate your money and let em stay at your house
Has any one of you entitled, complaining people ever thought of helping those homeless people to find permanent housing? However beautiful the beach may be, it is most likely a last resort for those camping there. Another story of the "haves" and the "have nots" 😢 Homeless people all over this country, many of whom are veterans and/or seniors, really could use some respect and assistance...instead of being herded to the burbs with nothing just to continue struggling there
The councilmember needs to learn how to speak without disdain for people. She's trying to say "it's not my fault!" but that attitude of disrespect and contempt. doesn't go over well there.
we just came from there, head to the big Island, it's even worse... saddest part, most are military veterans...most screwed up one way or another. Saw them eating right from trash cans in front of high end shops on Oahu, in front of the Hyatt Regency too, that is across from a police station...and on Waikiki Beach... Welcome to paradise... their fix is to move them down the road and not address the real issues at all...
We need to approach homelessness differently. If they refuse help , issue tickets even if arrested receive a ticket , third ticket . Even if born here is a one-way ticket to the mainland . Might encourage locals to get their lives together. If the mainland can send their problems here we can do the same .
@river4462 what is the crime ? They chose no help , they commit crimes And need shelter, other states send their residents here , with the same issues we have here among the population .
Homeless no mater where just shows lack of services for any homeless population especially kanaka homeless where Oahu all the islands are concerned. Can not be allowing homeless from mainland to overpopulate an already overpopulated homeless situation on Hawai'i, Oahu, all the islands. And so any resources are being stressed and locals are having to compete with damn outsiders. There need to be laws in order which regulate vacant and other buildings being turned in to shelters for the homeless and the appropriate programs that provide opportunities for turning lives around. Especially if homeless are habitual offenders, chronically homeless, drug addicts, alcohol offenses. Involuntary programs. Owners of structures would be compensated. Just a thought. And it would be a start. Ultimately mainland homeless need to stay on the mainland. Cities and states need to keep their homeless population in their own states and figure out a solution. California was shipping their homeless to Maui a few years back. Probably a pretty regular occurrance all throughout the mainland, especially where winter is concerned.
This thread is discouraging. Certainly, there's a lot on this thread who display a lack of empathy towards individuals who are experiencing homelessness. 1st off, individuals who are homeless aren't entitled. Secondly, those of you who feel they are----are being close-minded. 85% of us are 1 paycheck away from being homeless....while I hope none of you experience it, if you do, you too then would wish the non-homeless community was more caring towards your disposition & circumstances. Humans are the only race who charge each other rent & money to live & just exist of all the species on earth. Yet, we're the civilized ones? Let them live in peace, stop judging, stop with the Nosy Nellies, Ruberneck Rons....either help them or keep it moving. Don't be a barrier to their existence....they're just trying to survive as best as they can....like the rest of us but with likely much less than us.
Its nice the city wuts 2clean up the beaches but at the end of the day they will b back as soon as the city reopens the lady on the beach said so herself so all the city is doing is cleaning up so they can come back 2a clean beach
The more urgent reason that this is not a safe camping spot as when the rogue waves come through it takes out hundreds of people camping on the beach with a rogue wave or a tsunami which we just had happened in San Diego and we did lose hundreds of people in LA lost thousands for the same reason
A waste of time money and efforts just do something about rent control and gives these people a safe place governments will put money everywhere else except the right place
Where are they going to go? They just will come back To everyone else that is piss off about it. That’s your choice in having bills and having a house and a car.
Get people to relocate?To where do these homeless get relocated?They need to find out who are new homeless arrivals and immediately send them back.Then local families need to be cared for followed by those suffering mental illness.
Sweeps are unhelpful & a total waste of taxpayer money… you’d think they’d have learned that from the numerous decades they’ve been doing sweeps to no avail. The only way to alleviate the homeless issue is to find a way to alleviate the housing crisis, particularly for Hawaiians who are facing the choice of moving from our homelands or staying and living in tents.
These are not working families who are homeless because they are down on their luck and were evicted. These are drug addicts and people with the crazies 😜 who don’t want to live in shelters. Who don’t want rules, and may be too incompetent to even know it.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom there are literally dozens on the books. That’s what gave them the authority to clean this up. They could do the same in all of Waikiki.
@@FelixPfaltermann There’s more than dozens on the books & I never said anything about their authority to do it… I’m saying it doesn’t and never has WORKED, people just come right back, heck the workers sometimes even warn the people that they’re going to do it, so the people just pack up and come back the next day or the day after that. How is that effective? It’s just wasting taxpayer money, for what, a couple days where homeless people just move to another beach or park or sidewalk?!
Affordable housing for the homeless? Give that a few months and the affordable housing will look worse than their tent encampments. They have zero pride and want a free ride. When one isn’t financially responsible for themselves- or sober, their living conditions are that of a dumpster fire.
That's not right----that is criminalizing poverty/homelessness/poorness. Instead of spending all that time, effort, & tax payer monies playing musical chairs which doesn't help the homeless community at all.....use that money towards permanent solutions such as building Tiny Home Communities for them. Many of them are Native Hawaiians also & vets, Micronesians...this is their land that was taken illegally. They are someone's brother, sister, father, uncle, etc...treat them with dignity!
@@PalmtreezNcoolbreeze8084 You one clueless fool. Yeah and I know about their substance abuse problems too. If you know about them so much you would know that too. Think about it if you have a job and kids don't you think you would go to the shelter? There one at Waianae next to the state yard, but if you love to party you can't go there. My friend is a social worker and gives me the inside scoops.
Hmmm,maybe Hawaii shouldn't have gone for the mass tourism market!Before they put up all the hotels and people moved from everywhere to Hawaii...no homeless!Billionaires can buy...many acres but for some reason there's no land for more housing to be built?And yeah it is the same in California...same reasoning j...many people with higher incomes moved in and rents went up and people ended up in the streets!And of course no building affordable places!Simple builds studios would do...but...I guess they want everyone to move to Las Vegas?
Indigenous Hawaiians have always lived on the beach, long before the Haoles and Asians flooded in, its all they have left. Understandable they resent mainland hobos moving in on their small remaining turf! Tahitian (indigenous) people have a similar fight with 'bums' flooding in from France many of whom arent really French.
Its upsetting us tax paying working citizens, have to put up with homeless destroying public places. Im a vet with mental issues and still hold down a job, fed up with people feeling sorry for homeless.
Brah they only closing for a week for maintenance. It’ll be full with chronics after no worries. If so worried let them stay in your house for that duration. Oh wait not your backyard though right.
they never had a homeless problem on Oahu beach until the Americans showed up maybe we are doing something wrong they were living high on the hog in their huts with their families they were living the good life very sad to see what we did to them and their beautiful beaches. makes me want to vomit.
