The Debrief: The solution to Hawaii's homeless problem? 'Deeply affordable housing' 

Justice for Maui

I used to think that Joy was in touch with the reality of homelessness, but after hearing this I reject that. Allowing people to live in doorways of downtown, waterfront businesses using public areas for toilets is UNACEPTABLE. Police walk by and do nothing unless the homeless person is actively hurting themselves.

Getting rid of the Jones Act would be pretty helpful also...

Absolutely ridiculous rents, caused by natives being displaced by people from other states either 1) buying up the real estate for AirBNB or 2) non natives who come to Hawaii in order to be homeless. Both issues need to be addressed.

Just start by Stopping B&Bs !!!!! They ruin the rental market and ruin family neighborhos !!!! Stick with visitors Hotels and areas

Japan and Hong Kong use very small living spaces just because the space doesn't exist but that could provide ideas and making . homelessness illegal as well as providing mental institution type settings.Not everyone can afford living in Hawaii.

29:14 PLEASE STOP "HOPING" AND START HOLDING PPL ACCOUNTABLE NO MORE IMMUNITY FOR TRUSTEES AND BOARDS THAT CAN'T GET IT DONE AND MAKE MILLIONS

You're talking about these ppl like animals

Public safety first! Community safety first!

Politicians are out of touch, you guys are asking the wrong ones. Ask the ones who represents the downtown Hilo. Whenever you clear one area they just move to another. Affordable housing only takes care of only a small position. There are those who don't know how to takecare of the place they live. They get killed out of the place they live because they leave the place a mess. Education is needed.

Help the homeless government need to do this build homes for them already ! Start now this will help your islands !

Love, Justice and Respect to Mauí People 🙏✨❤️

You don't work at McDonalds and expect to support a family and own a house, ANYWHERE.

Boxable is trying to reach anyone in government so they can deliver 200 tiny homes to help with Lahaina and the homeless, why has no one called them back?

The problem is getting worse because we make it too easy to be homeless - we give them everything they want - daily and for free. No incentives - to work for it.

$112,000 income for a single person to be above poverty in Hawaii that’s what Business insider said Wow

Thank you for all the good info in this video.

Jobs ?

The situation is SICK.everything.

I like the micro housing idea just to get them in a clean safe place to lay their head at night. All islands should have these I think. Also homeless life leads to infections. It’s not sanitary or safe

Sliding scale!!

i remember paying 80 a month for a 700 sq foot apt in Makiki in 1974, then in 1976, 90 for a big 1 bedroom up Kalihi Valley, then 110 for a 2 bed 1 bath in Kalihi Uka till 1982, then 125 for a 2 bedroom 1 bath till 1983 in Kalihi. then bought a 2 bedroom house in Hauula for 80 thousand in 1983. times have changed! I still have rent receipts.

Ironically the service oriented restaurants & stores are having a SEVERE shortage of WORKERS! Many employers realize they have to pay far above the minimum wage to attract & keep workers. Sadly, businesses find they have to cut their business hours, or close for a couple days per week. Thirty thousand Hawaii residents have left the islands in the last 3 years. This is due to our ridiculous cost of living, and housing shortage. Home ownership in Hawaii is not possible for most people.

So let me get this right -they give millions of dollars to organizations to come up with a solution to fix the homeless problem and to fix the affordable housing how about you give that money to the people to build their homes and for the average person to start their business and get rid of the drugs stop all the BS politics

Senator Joy and Rep. Mizuno are on top of it, focused on solutions. Very impressed. What I don’t understand, and maybe someone can explain to me, is why our Hawaiian Homelands in upcountry Maui is two acre parcels? Shouldn’t there be more density, so more people can be served? I don’t see anyone farming the land there.

Define 'affordable' as the govt poverty tables are STILL unaffordable here in Hawaii! It is more about the wages that lead to seeking employment on the continent so we can actually AFFORD a home here!

This is BS. You have just admitted there is no section 8 for the working poor and that only the mentally ill and addicted people would be helped.

Send all immigrants there it's America

Build baby build. Only way we can fix our problem. 100k-200k homes. No Millie homes just the basic ones that take a week to build. 200k max proce

Hawaii Senator Joy Buenaventura: What group are you from? You hit the nail on the head when you said that the average hopeless helpless homeless person can afford $$$ 500+/ month in apartment rent being working poor working a minimum wage job with the average apartment rent being $$$ 3,000/ month. Sure, a high % being 25% of said homeless persons are Polynesian Kanaka Maoli ( Native. Hawaiian and the indigenous peoples of the Hawaiian Islands which you refer to as the Islands ) but your homeless persons include other groups without medical coverage. Hawaii Representative John Mizuno: What group do you hail from?😮😮

😭😭😭Billions $$$s spent on the RAIL yet No $$$ for homes for Houseless😭😭😭Its PRIORITIES😭😭😭

We are giving money to other countries and all immigrants they need to help the homeless all over America 😢

Affordable housing will not help the homeless as they do not want any help which has rules to follow. Most of the homeless just want to live that lifestyle and want to live a no give a F life and respect for the public. So, we need to place them in part of the Island where they are hidden from the public. I was getting my medication Rx from longs Kapolei and a homeless lady enter the store knocking down can goods. The store manager asks the homeless woman to leave her store nicely and the homeless started to get violent and yelling f- you don't tell want to do, my wife and everyone in the store was terrified, so they do affect and stress the public which is just not acceptable! My wife refuses to go to the gas station because of homeless yelling and swearing to the public she is too scared to get out of the car to pay for her gas knowing she could be confronted by a derange crazy person.

What a joke this is.

We need to see what our government is trying to do T o US CITIZENS with UN AGENDA. 15 min Cities

Low income housing is needed.

The Aloha Society.

I don’t know much but it seems that what we need to remember is that we’re not dealing with is a native Hawaiian local people not to be discriminatory but we need to take care of our Island people first what we have here is 90% of incoming people from other states with either a police record as long as our arm and bring nothing to the table when they end up here in Hawaii The high rate of homelessness is being contributed by a judicial system court system if you will special arrangements from other states with a one-way ticket to the Highlands they get here they get settled in nowhere they have to go work all the different avenues available and may or may not have some type of addiction and and once you’re settled in they will pitch a tent and that’s where they operate from. If we go to solve this problem we have to start at the core which in this case stop bringing the people from other states to increase our population of homelessness which puts our state city county into severe debt and unnecessary headaches because as you can see the homelessness population is not really our Island born people the percentage is very low compared to the influx of newcomers or homeless individuals from other states so if we keep building and become blindsided with this Core issue they were only inviting thousands and thousands of more to come live and be taken care of by being part of the homeless population on our islands. Think about it. It’s always gonna be our Island people first that’s pono. On top of that just thinking how much taxes we pay which would be a lot more constructive and welcoming if we started from our local people in need first it would also help with the court system being so crowded with ridiculous cases I think at this point we would save more money for the state and the county by scrutinizing and looking into our court system and create a new law that would make sure that other courts off our islands in other states cannot send hospital patients convicted Court felonies, And other court offenders as well as other persons with no present address phone number ID etc. to our islands we have to do something. Think about it

Addiction is a mental health condition. Separating them without separating all other mental health conditions is for political manipulation. There is no need to separate mental health conditions. The two causes of homelessness is mental health conditions and underemployment.

It’s sad that it got to this. More sad that our government expects people to reduce themselves to a tiny home. To me, that’s depressing and only a temporary solution.

good show; what is cost to build the kauhal's? maybe I missed that?

99 year lease, public housing like Singapore.

Bidenomics is working so I don’t get this homelessness 🤦🏽‍♂️

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No one chooses to be homeless they have no choice ya and they are not mentally ill just making up stuff to make the government look good !

Many USA criminals are purposely living cheap without rent or mortgage, to support their addictions. Some also do both, using tent camps as portable drug dens, and even drug-labs. This happens wherever hardcore democrats create the laws and policies. Affordable housing is a myth, and the 'crisis' is self inflicted from top to bottom. For starters, Hawaii needs to farm and ranch their vacant lands, to bring down the cost of food.

Democrats… 8:10 Well now since you’re so worried about all of the homeless people you have about 3000 now homeless people cause y’all burned their family properties to the core.