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I’m an honorably discharged veteran with _TWO_ bachelor’s degrees, and I’m currently living in my car because I can’t afford rent. Seriously. I’m currently trying to move to a new state, but moving is expensive these days, and a hassle. So just trying to save up money as fast as possible. I tried to get a HUD-VASH voucher (essentially subsidizes a veteran’s rent) but there’s a waiting list. Even veterans who don’t do drugs and work/pay taxes get screwed in this country. 😅
“The Country” ( I am assuming you are referring to the United States) needs to stop Illegally Occupying Hawaii. That is why Hawaii (mostly Oahu and Maui) is corrupt, polluted and over priced. I was born and raised in Honolulu and NONE of those buildings existed accept the Moana Hotel and The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Waikiki was all local homes until the early 60’s when the colonist started building all those high rises.
Hawaii is my home and this breaks my heart. I currently live in St. George, Utah for the past 5 years caring for my elderly mom and finally went back home to Hawaii last month for a visit after 5 years of being away and it literally brought me to tears. Thank you for exposing the TRUE Hawaii and what our people are going through.
It’s absolutely sickening to see how developed Oahu has gotten. The amount of houses being built is disgusting. Taking agricultural land and making houses is atrocious. All because of greed.
@@islandlady-rr3fm I’m sorry you feel that way. Life probably is better where ever you are. I could never leave this rock. I pray to God I’ll be able to continue to stay.
I used to be homeless and i don't think it should be a crime to sleep on public land. But when i was homeless i didn't have a tent. I found shelter whenever needed and had only what i could carry with me in one go when traveling around. If i couldn't fit it in my backpacks then i didn't keep it. To think all the money given to Ukraine could have been used to build housing for every homeless person in America. Face it people, if government wanted to fix the homeless problems they would. Its a choice at this point the government is doing.
I don’t blame the homeless to the government. People has a choice, it’s up to us if we are choosing to be homeless or we gonna get find a job. Most of the homeless is a drug addicted. We need to choose wisely in life. Do not blame to someone else that we are the one who choose that life. That’s why we have the brain. Choices is our responsibility.
I have lived here for 60 years...they just approved building over 350 condos on Turtle Bay. The investors are out of State. Hawaii residents will have to foot the bill for roads, water, etc. The investors will make millions while our ocean water get polluted. They need to charge all out of State investors a fee to build public housing. Every time someone wants to develop unaffordable housing units for the rich, they need to build public housing for our people who can't afford to house themselves. It doesn't have to be super nice, building with restrooms and laundry and enough to survive. If they want to move out after getting on their feet that's better. Thanks for this videa... it's real.
The housing crisis is getting worse. 10 years ago people couldn't afford to buy a house. Now they can't afford to rent. Unless something is done now, we're all just one unfortunate circumstance from becoming homeless, too.
😢 Clean it up hawaii, You have the money to do it. Help these people to get off drugs. Every city can make small little apartments for these people they live in a tent. They could live in a 10 / 10. Place.
@@cindylopez5599 The Democrats, if they don't declare a national emergency and cancel the election, are going to cheat massively, they will allow illegals to vote in a federal election with "federal ballots." Vote early, in person if possible and BRING AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE WITH YOU TO VOTE!
No not all homelessness is due to drugs, but majority is and if you go and talk to the homeless people like he did, you can clearly see that meth is the cause. Are there other drugs? Sure but very rare. Meth is everywhere in Hawaii and it does destroy lives. Add that to milk being $9-11 a gallon and rent being $1,800 for a studio apartment with jobs only paying $18hr. I am from a state that has the most rehabs in the country, Hawaii doesn't have that in comparison.
@@Boneheadreact . . . them perhaps the interviewer should not search out addicts for comments. Go seek out regular folks homeless due to no fault of their own. it was clearly stated "drugs is the main reason for homelessness." Sounds like a blanket statement to me. People will simply run with it . . . and it's a LIE!
There are plenty of services and housing for them but they just like the freedom of the streets and hate to follow rules and regulations at homeless housing for them. The legislature throws gobs of money at this situation with no end results.
Yes and “house flippers” & the “state” for allowing all these “move to Hawai’i”, “come flip houses in Hawai’i” type shows on HGTV to film here & promote that people do these things that lead to our housing crisis. Have you seen all the Airbnb owners complaining and even lying on social media because Hawai’i is trying to limit Airbnb’s?
@@jerryangton408 A lot of jobs check credit scores too now, and won’t hire people with bad credit scores because they believe it’s an indication of a person not being responsible.
growing up in california and watching tv shows filmed in hawaii... we only saw paradise. me and my friends never knew hawaii even had a homeless problem.
People and corporations buying up multiple properties as rental investments or to use as Airbnb rentals is a huge part of the problem. We even let foreigners buy up property without limit.
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I started pretty low investing in forex though with $2000 thereabouts. The returns came massive. Joey is in school doing well, telling me of new friends he's meeting in school. Ava Brenda Harry is a Blessing to my life
I'm honestly surprised about This FIN advisor name being mentioned here. I stumbled upon one of her clients testimony last month in "WION" news i invested,Her successful story is every
@toddrodeo1349 it's beyond that. American infrastructure is disgusting at best. I bet Hawaii was a beautiful place and look at it. I mean sure it has roads and supermarkets but man.. at what cost? You hear stories of the waters back in the day around Hawaii and Australia. Teeming with fish as far as the eye can see even up to the coastline. Now you'll see those buildings from any mountain. One could guess the highest building is the tallest point in Hawaii.
Democrats have a monopoly on Homelessness and Lawlessness. San Fran, Seattle, Portland, D.C., Chicago, Los Ang, NYC. Hawaiians should STOP complaining about the homeless. You don't have millions of illegals that would increase your homeless population, increase crime, and suck up resources. Even Democrat controlled cities in red states like Texas are trash like Austin, Dallas, San Ant, Ft Worth, and Houston.
What's really bad about poverty in Hawaii, is there's no way to leave. You don't go away to better employment opportunities. Things are so expensive, that I wouldn't doubt that regularly employed people are visiting food banks and a bunch of them are on some kind of government assistance.
@@robotekusaThat would make sense, the locals need to get em off the island, it an an island!!!!. The mainland has or at least had programs for homelessness until uh 10 million or so came to visit
let's be realistic for a moment, majority of the homeless population in hawaii don't want to work, are hooked on drugs or alcohol & they don't want to follow rules, yes it's expensive but they don't want to work already. i been homeless here and your life is what we make it
It's so SAD to see the broken spirits of human life ! how shocking the homeless problem is all over America USA! I guess if I'm gunna think of something good to say is, is when I use to be homeless for 2yrs I stayed in a camp that looked after each other, and if you were elderly then in the camp people would take turns helping them by sharing there there food with them, helping them wash clothes and sharing there tents, you really have to help out in a camp to get into one that's not gunna steal you'd last roll of Tp. Thank u Nick for traveling all over and taking me along with u with theae videos!! Haha. BTW I'm from San Antonio ,Texas come back and see us again one day. Michelle
Broken Spirits? Really? I got a job when I was sixteen and worked for the next 45 years. I grew up instead of being a perpetual adolescent.Don`t blame other people for your mistakes.
The man that's been living on the beach for 2 years: he was talking about Micronesians that had to be relocated as the result of the atomic bomb tests in the '50's and '60's. There's one island where we built a concrete dome over ground zero, but its leaking radiation, so the island isn't habitable anymore.
😔😔 That is awful. It angers me so much the way beautiful parts of our Earth have became toxic and unfit for life. I am sure that nothing is being done to contain the leak either, which is quite serious given the ocean is & has b
At 23:22 you are interviewing homeless next to Jack in the Box. On the other side of Jack in the Box is WA Middle school. An open air no security school. There recently was a SA in the outside bathroom. A 8th grader with an ankle bracelet assulted a non verbal 6th GR boy..Mr Harano, The principal asked parents to check phones as the assult was recorded. He gad ZERO interest in letting the public know. Luckily, advocates and whistleblowers did.
What's really sad is that the mentally ill get hooked on drugs to cope and drugs can cause mental illness. Such a vicious cycle. America needs to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and addiction. So much suffering.
Not sure America can be proud of what they did with the islands they stole from the natives. But this is what America is. This channel shows you what America really is.
America didn’t steal anything, a$$hole. It’s was acquired. If the United States hadn’t taken it some other country would have. Seriously, this is 2024, do actually think Hawaiians would be dancing in grass skirts and living as they did in the 18th century still?
I arrived in Hawaii over a week ago for a 10 day holiday from Australia and am staying in Waikiki. I am amazed at the amount of homelessness around this area. I took a bus ride to visit the Arizona memorial, and it seemed to get worse the further I went. I felt guilty being in a hotel when people are sleeping in parks and bus stops. I met a lovely, very well-educated man and wondered what I could do to help. I started taking the share of the food that I would have eaten from the buffet each morning, along with coffee, butter, bread, and honey/jam to him each morning. I made sure I would only take the amount I would have had eaten as I didn't want to get in trouble. I asked if it was enough, and he replied, more than enough, as I share it with the others. So here is a man who is starving on the streets but still shares. The way I have seen some of the locals and people from the mainland look at the homeless is terrible. Something needs to be done. I am sad because I can only help with food one more day before I return to Australia.
But “everywhere” doesn’t have US states sending their homeless there on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate their own homeless problem, Hawai’i DOES.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom🤣 nobody “sends” homeless people anywhere except to the liberal cities here in the mainland being overrun by illegals that crossed the Mexican border.. Hawaii is not full of Mexicans is it? Nope. It’s full of your own people that you created to be homeless due to political and economic greed. No state has property values and rent like your state, California and Illinois might be a close 2nd but look at their homeless population numbers. Then lookup the number of homeless drug addicts in those states, your state has an abundance of drug users and it always has. We’ve all seen DOG the bounty hunter..
And keep rising up tax not making any sense. Crackhead and the rooster Got me 😂😂 nice Nick! Most of homeless in Honolulu area are not locals Send them back where they came from keep sending them homeless to Hawaii
I’ve only watched a third of this episode and I must say that my heart is broken. I lived on Oahu back in the mid to late 80’s. Army Schofield Barracks. It was nothing like this. I’ve always wanted to return for a week or two but this is absolutely disheartening.
That sweet lady that you interviewed at the beginning bless her I wish her the very best I feel so sorry for those folks nobody should have to live like that breaks my heart
So depressing... but thank you for taking the time and having the courage to dive in deep and speak with the people living on the street. It's something...
Drive all way to the end of Kili Drive right before Makaha Surfing Beach, and you will see the biggest camp on Oahu. There is a water tower near the apartment complex where you can walk in and see some crazy stuff
I feel so sad for My Native Wānāu of Hawaiki.. I am a Native of Aotearoa and to see what those Colonizers have done to Beautiful Hawaiki island and our brothers and sisters of their lands is very heartbreaking ❤ Ka mamae to ngakau - We share your Heart ache, Ka mamae to mamae - We Share your pain, Ko koe ko au ko koe - You are me I am you, Kotahi Tatou - We are One.. Tu Kaha O Tatou Tuahine Ataahua - Stand Strong Our Sister's and Brothers ❤
I moved to Hawaii in 1974 after my military service to the Big Island, Hilo to be specific. I never had a housing problem, as I worked for the State of Hawaii. There was no homelessness, as everyone had jobs. Then, all of a sudden, the drug "ice" made it's debut in the Islands (about 1984) and everything changed. I interviewed for a position at ARCO corporation in LA, and was hired for immediate hire, & left Hawaii in 1986 (after Tina Turner's last U.S. show). THERE WAS NO HOMELESS ISSUES THEN. It breaks my heart 😢 to see Hawaii now, with the homeless population sooooo huge. NMRK NMRK NMRK🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I left Oahu in 1990. I look back and realized I left before it got bad. I see your video and remember how the view of the beaches was clear and spacious. There was always con artists and trouble but I know it's worse 😮 so sad. The pit of my stomach just hurts so bad. How terrible it has become. Thanks for posting but it's so sad.😢
@@Lopezflies888Ny is getting ready to ship and dump migrants and homeless to indian reservation areas in Ny. They already give them free land, housing,booze drugs and money monthly. I believe its Seneca tribal areas
@@skinanbones5517 I was in Goodwill on Beretania st when we first moved here and was talking to my husband and a homeless man over heard my southern accent and approached me, telling me how he was from Georgia and missed hearing that southern twang. I spoke with him and asked him how he ended up in Hawaii from Georgia and he flat out told me when he was released from prison 12 years earlier the state of Georgia told him he couldn't stay there and offered him a 1way ticket anywhere he want. He told me if he was gonna be homeless (cause no family would take him in, in Georgia) then he was gonna be homeless where it was always warm. He has been in Hawaii since.
Drug use and insanity. When I was a kid (in the 60/70’s) the island (Oahu) had maybe a handful of "hobos" and they were kinda known, and you just stayed away. Now…
Well in the 60/70’s states in the US didn’t have programs to send THEIR homeless to Hawai’i on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate THEIR homeless problem, sooo there’s that.
What’s the deal with the rise in insanity here? My friends and I just call them Island Crazies. So many people walking around talking or yelling to themselves. It has really increased over the past 20 years. Is there something in the water or is there some new drug that’s driving people mad?
3 jobs and 3 years later, got us out of there! The DOE , the kids learn nothing except how to fight. My child said teachers don't break up fights right away because they like to watch. 😡 Happy and thriving in a GOOD school district in the Pacific NW!!!!!
I stayed in Hawaii (the big island) for a month and couldn’t believe the cost of groceries. That was pre 2020 so I can’t even imagine the grocery prices now. Unless you’re getting food stamps it would be so hard to feed a family over there.
Japan also has a high rate of “self inflicted unlifing” and a culture that shuns and shames people for being homeless as well as a culture of representing your family.
@@fernandoscrenci4874 I never consider it as homeless . They just have a different idea how they like to live . It’s like permanent camping . No clocks to follow or people pestering or holding you to any schedule or signing papers u have no idea 🤷 what they mandating you to do .
The government should have special islands, cities or villages for homeless where they build them small houses and force them to rehab and work or study something. But they need to get them out of public places. They spent massive amounts of $$$ helping Ukraine and supporting other wars around the world but they don't seem to care about these huge problems at home
@@rockscrambler6700 It was way different even in the 90s!!!!! It's unrecognizable now. No ALOHA. As he said that Aloha thing with driving is b*******. Too many people coming over from the mainland and overseas with their driving habits is my guess. Locals drive crazy too though
While I was on Kauai local business owner told me about how CORRUPT the Hawaiian government is. (Robert Kiyosaki has been saying the Hawaiian government has been corrupt since the 1970s). Anyway, they also explained that when Detroit Michigan (MOTOWN) shut down jobs, they gave a one-way ticket to Hawaii to anyone especially the homeless.
I live on Big Island for 20 years. Hilo is really bad now. No incentives to get sober or work. You won't freeze or starve here. I own lot and tiny home far from towns in upper Puna and love it. This is mostly a city problem . Stay out of Hilo Town at night. Lock your car if you park.
No jobs in Puna area and commute from Pahoa to Hilo was insane. School buses run during rush hour traffic, making it take hours to get to Hilo. Almost as bad coming back. Turns an 8 hour work day into a thirteen hour marathon. Easier to just relax on your lot, collect food stamps, and panhandle a few hours a week to pay the electric bill.
Big Island get too many people moving there and not enough jobs to support them. The only people who can get by easily are people from the states who move here to live on cheap high danger lava zone lots, live in illegal unpermitted structures and retire on SS checks.
People who make bad decisions in their lives like to blame other people for their problems.They are lying to themselves when they think it`s someone else`s fault.
Aloha, Nick Johnson 🤙🏽 My comment to you is of pure FRUSTRATION 😡 I'm born and raised on 'Oahu. I personally have been houseless (Hawai'i is my HOME) twice. Once, in the early '90's by myself and in the early 2000's with my son in a shelter (because I didn't want him to know the streets). Back in those days, the homeless problem wasn't as bad as it is NOW. Which is why I could go into a shelter. I've seen & been on BOTH sides. There are different sides to homelessness. 1) Career homeless-they're the ones who REFUSE to be in society & are CONTENT to stay like that. 2) Mental issues-they're the ones who either had those issues with NO drug abuse and the ones who got there using & abusing, mostly drugs. 3) Alcohol &/or Drug Abusers 4) Families who are in the working class who can't afford to pay rent somewhere &/or can't qualify for places &/or are on LONG wait lists FOR a place. 5) Elderly 6) Veterans-between the last two, I'm sure that there are some of them that are just Elderly &/or Veterans 🤔there might even be some who are battling with mental &/or alcohol/drug abuse. 'Oahu DOES have, NOW a lot more homeless that HAVE BEEN coming there because wherever they're originally from IS giving them a one-way ticket to "paradise" INSTEAD of helping "their own". There aren't ENOUGH places on the islands to help the homeless as a WHOLE. THAT requires $, that our State can only give out so much to the different non-profit organizations. The "Aloha Spirit" has SERIOUSLY been abused. I believe that the Hawai'i airports should be like France where you ask them "business or pleasure", take down their credentials & "follow up" with them & if their job fell through and/or they're "stuck" they get a one-way ticket back where they came from to get the help they need from "over there." When someone becomes homeless, there are "stages" for that. In the beginning, a person who isn't using & abusing... they're all "gung-ho" about NOT staying on the streets that they'll try EVERYTHING to get back to THEIR normal. When THAT "wears off" frustration &/or depression sinks in & they start to "give up" that's where alcohol & drug abuse can & might happen. There are just SO much different things/situations of even WHY people become homeless...but, at the end of the day... they're ALL STILL human beings and you sir, need to be MORE RESPECTFUL when you're filming the homeless while they're in their tents/homes like asking PERMISSION to film them &/or flying your drone 🤔🤨 (I get it, you want to show the public the REAL stuff but, it's just disrespectful when you're PEERING into their personal space like that 😮😡 The one in Waianae is called (I'm going to phonetically say it) Poo-oo Hoh-noo-ah Oh Why-ah-neye. Aloha 🌺
He asks permission after the fact and still puts ppl in the video. Also, the way he talks about ppl is disrespectful. He does this for his channel. This is not some selfless mission. Do not be confused.
We're the fools apparently. These homeless people have a 1 million dollar view of the ocean wild we are paying thousands to be stuck in a box viewing four walls all day. I'm confused now lol.
There is only one person who owns 98 percent of Lanai; think of how many people could have been housed there. Why would the government allow for one man to own the entire island? Shameful
Yes, it sure does! You are rich or poor in Hawaii! There’s no in between. My friend went there and couldn’t thrive. She ran out of money so quick and ended up being on the streets. She had to come back home it was so bad.
This is the Hawaii Gov Josh Green doesn’t want you to see!! Thank you for exposing this, not that we don’t know about it. But it might open more eyes!!
I'm happy that you & your ohana had a beautiful life in the '90's...the homeless back then wasn't as much as it's now... because I was homeless on 'Oahu (where I'm born & raised) in the early '90's, by myself (on the streets) and then again, in a shelter with my son.
@@emmakahoe5233 That sucks. I hope you're both doing well now. Its definitely tough to get above the 'struggling' line in Hawaii. I was just renting a room in a house in Kaimuki with 3 other guys so I was technically lower-income, but I really enjoyed my years there. My wife was born and raised on Oahu and its very difficult for us to see home prices get so darn high there. We'd like to buy a townhouse on Oahu and retire back to Hawaii but I don't think its going to happen because of home prices.
Oahu, my hometown....man. You know what think is happening? I think all the capitalism and all the advancements in technology are starting to break. I think in the next 3 or 4 generations, people with money are going to be a thing of the past. It'll all gonna come crashing down and we're going to go back to small villages, people fending for themselves, developing their own little communities like it was before all the high-rises, etc. Nature is gonna is start taking the land back, politics and all this crap is going to be insignificant because life will return to pure survival. I honestly think it's a beautiful thing, as long as all the synthetic drugs and cartels and all that are no longer able to have influence.
The homeless can`t live or fend for themselves otherwise they would be doing it.The pioneer life is hard work and most homeless are soft. Half of them want to escape reality with drugs and alcohol and laying on their backs.They never grew up to take responsibility for their lives, that is fending for yourself.They burnt bridges with their families and the friends they chose dragged them down.
WOW, Hawaii is beautiful. It so tragic we let this go on and just send money overseas to immigrants that just come in illegally. When do we as a people rise up and get rid of these immoral policies, i.e., politicians?
Why? We the taxpayers are the ones providing the revenue, why aren't we being taken care of first in a 'crisis' that is devastating our own country. We are providing the equivalent of $100,000 for every illegal migrant flooding across our southern border; free cell phones, free hotel accommodations, free transportation, We live in an upper mid-class town. We have noticed an influx of illegal immigrants in our school district. Lunches are free due to the percentage of low income households now in our district. There's no such thing as a free lunch, who is paying for it? The homeowner taxpayers are. The illegals aren't paying these taxes. It goes way beyond the free lunches, they are getting a free education, increasing classroom sizes, creating demand for more teachers, resources, etc. This all is costing the taxpayer more.
Indeed....the govt is causing this crisis on purpose to DESTROY the US...and cause that whole "replacement theory" in a more natural looking way, I mean, they can't just kill off all the "whities," in broad daylight now can they...we slaves got it too good and now they want to bring in new slaves on this here plantation/corporation of america...we are about to lose it all and also be killed off....maybe not every last one of us but that civil war is also being created by them...I hope enough people awaken to wtf is going on before that happens!
@@Sammy-il1qf. Complete political rhetoric not based in reality. Coming from the same type of people who don't want to pay for healthcare, education, affordable housing, social services etc... the same group that always wants to cut taxes on corporations and the rich, suddenly care about the working class Americans lol. If you want things to "improve" then you need to support programs that actually help working class Americans, but most of you don't. Most of you support politicians who want to cut spending on every program that can make Americans lives better. We spend on average 100 billion on illegal immigration, most of that goes to border security, not for "free shit". Most of these "hotels" are being funded by state governments, not the federal government. And it's a small fraction of immigrants who get that. Most end up working agricultural labor and industrial labor jobs for low pay, which most americans hate doing because of the low pay, long hours, and hard labor. Most illegal immigrants are not getting free housing, cell phones, etc. Lol, thats such a played out partisan talking point not based in reality. We spend trillions on programs for American citizens, and it could and should be even more, and most American social programs should be completely changed because it ends up costing even more because we involve corporations and the free market, instead of letting the governemnt do it. We spend more on healthcare, education, infrastructure, social services than almost any other country which does these things infinitely better because we have allowed corporate america to provide services the gov should be providing. Allowing corporations to provide these services have caused prices to skyrocket, which in turn forces the Fed to print money which causes more inflation... And Americans continue to support politicians both republican and Democrat who mindlessly support the status quo, while things get harder for most Americans. Meanwhile Europeans have lower inflation, lower overall costs, free healthcare, free daycare and higher education, better infastrucuture, higher quality of life etc... and the funny part is they pay much less overall for these things, and their overall tax burden is similar to the US. But we call them "socialists" and desperately try and do the exact opposite of a tried and true working blue print. But ya illegal immigrants are the big problem, let's focus on that instead of the multiple elephants in the room.
Of course, it’s called “government”- literal translation is “mind control”. Rebelled against English taxation on tea imports but now they take 1/3 or more of our earned wealth every year to pay back the Fed and the masses don’t give a shit. “Bread and circuses” we are lost to apathy and popular culture. Enraging and depressing at the same time.
I guess if you didn't have the money to get off the island you're basically trapped on the tip of a volcano thousands of miles from any substantial land with no way to leave. "HOTEL HAWAII" You can check out any time you want but you can never leave...
It's sad to see, literal paradise on Earth in such shape.. I was there in '89 as a child and all I remember is a beautiful paradise with beautiful people and now it all seems like a distant dream that I want to get back to some way, somehow. It feels like a part of me is there... I do love those islands man..
Did you miss NYC Bloomberg telling Americans around 15yrs ago, AMERICA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! That was your wake up call. They always tell you way in advance, what they are going to do to their slaves, yes, that's you, before they do it. Should have paid attention to what is really going on, huh!
I live in Maryland. I’ve been to Oahu in Hawaii for a few days on vacation back in 2018. I actually am thinking about flying back to Hawaii and become homeless for a while just for the adventure and the fun. I’m educated, got a Master’s degree, a vast skillset and tired of all this crazy, expensive inflation. I did enjoy Hawaii when I was there. A great place to be homeless.
Dog the Bounty Hunter had a few of those homeless camps on his show when he was looking for fugitives and some of them were pretty elaborate. Beth helped a few of them. One woman had kids. She said you have to get these kids out of here. The woman worked 2 part time jobs and couldn't afford rent. Beth helped her get a 1 bedroom apartment it was around $1,000 15 years ago. The woman said with foodstamps and welfare and her 2 jobs she could make the rent. Beth paid first month rent and deposit plus gave her money to get beds or something to sit on. She got a bunk bed and a blow up bed, a couch and table and chairs and someone gave her a TV. Beth was kind hearted and willing to help people. They helped a lot of people go to rehab and get off ice Hawaii's version of meth. One of my friends lived in Hawaii for 6 months so she could help her uncle recover from surgery. He was buying the house and it took the uncle, 2 of his kids and a family friend living there just to make the house payments and utilities. They worked full time and 2 of them worked a 2nd job. The uncle got social security disability.
12:58 this guy deserves a home man i can tell he's not on drugs he's got cute pups that look healthy man i feel for the guy. Like i realize the stigma and many homeless are strung out unwilling to take rehab i get that but this dude obviously isn't on drugs why WHY do we allow him to be pushed out of society like this? Thank you Nick for showing not every homeless person is there cuz of drugs.
You could sober up all the homeless people in the USA, give them all a college education and a degree, and there still wouldn't be enough jobs for them.
Why do they need a colleges education? Colleges are just a brain washing factory. We need more people learning a trade. I received a BA a degree in the late 80’s, and before the brainwashing thank God! However, in retrospect, I wish I had learned a trade instead.
Who says they wouldn’t create jobs? Many cemeteries are filled with individuals who never gave life any effort. There is enough for everyone. There would be enough jobs for everyone as there is now but many just don’t want to learn new skills or give it any effort
Nick, this crazy guy who followed you until he got $5 surpassed all the other homeless people in terms of audacity and madness, he accumulated a real dump of garbage and rubble right on top of the river. I don't understand how a city council can allow someone to do something like this in a canal, a city watercourse, which could cause a blockage and flooding in the event of heavy rain.
The DEms are in control on Hawaii."Do your own thing" is their mantra.What they should do is give them a bath and pay for a one way ticket anywhere but there.
It saddens my heart to see stuff like this on social media bcoz this makes the homeless situation we deal with here in Hawai'i much more real. In reality our people (the locals) out there isn't homeless. They are houseless. Hawai'i Is Our home. It's the cost of living here that is forcing our ppl to leave their homes and go houseless. Our ppl are even being forced to leave the island and move somewhere else. As for the other homeless's they are being sent here by the state that they were from and for them this is sad. They are told Hawai'i is warmer unlike the burning cold cities they will leave behind. So the homeless gladly accept the free trip to paradise only to find that living in paradise isn't all what they thougt. And once they get here they are stuck. This is when drugs, alchohol and crime becomes their only means of survival. So yes you see many ppl with mental health issues (ppl from all walks of life who once upon a time had a life) out on the streets and even on our beautiful beaches. If you all wanna help ppl like this raise awareness of the truth behind what these ppl are going through. Not jst in Hawai'i but around the United States.
God Bless you. My dad was in Korea about the time you were. Something happened to him mentally on the battlefield and he went home and his dad wouldn't let him stay. The Army took him back and he became a WWII veteran in addition to Korean War. I tried to get him into the veterans home in DE and he ended up in a home where they beat him until unconscious with a broken leg he was admitted to the hospital where he lasted about a week and was quickly cremated so that no autopsy could be completed with death certificate stating natural causes.
Portland, OR, Seattle, WA and a few other cities in Calif have been quietly giving homeless 1 way plane tickets to HI and AK, knowing that its nearly impossible to come back once they land there w/ no resources. Ketchikan AK is going thru similar influx issues. Its an island as well.
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being homeless in hawaii may be the best place to live.
So Many Homeless it's shame Jo Biden Ukraine first 😢😢😢
When retired people want to work because of boredom, their benefits get cut off!!! This is why they become homeless!!
Other people work for their housing!!
@@rogerburn5132let’s go Brandon
What really upsets me is we can send a hundred billion dollars over seas, but we have homeless vets here!
Exactly
I know it sicking me to
I’m an honorably discharged veteran with _TWO_ bachelor’s degrees, and I’m currently living in my car because I can’t afford rent. Seriously. I’m currently trying to move to a new state, but moving is expensive these days, and a hassle. So just trying to save up money as fast as possible. I tried to get a HUD-VASH voucher (essentially subsidizes a veteran’s rent) but there’s a waiting list. Even veterans who don’t do drugs and work/pay taxes get screwed in this country. 😅
@@flanagamer Sell everything and just bring a backpack with clothes and your laptop!
@@ArtIsDrawing but I need my car. I don’t have anything else _to_ sell 🤷🏻♂️😅
Really can’t watch this stuff without tearing up. It feels so hopeless, wish we’d do more as a country! Praying for all the homeless.🕊️
“The Country” ( I am assuming you are referring to the United States) needs to stop Illegally Occupying Hawaii. That is why Hawaii (mostly Oahu and Maui) is corrupt, polluted and over priced. I was born and raised in Honolulu and NONE of those buildings existed accept the Moana Hotel and The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Waikiki was all local homes until the early 60’s when the colonist started building all those high rises.
Hawaii is my home and this breaks my heart. I currently live in St. George, Utah for the past 5 years caring for my elderly mom and finally went back home to Hawaii last month for a visit after 5 years of being away and it literally brought me to tears. Thank you for exposing the TRUE Hawaii and what our people are going through.
It made me emotional sharing your story
It’s absolutely sickening to see how developed Oahu has gotten. The amount of houses being built is disgusting. Taking agricultural land and making houses is atrocious. All because of greed.
Drugs, Alcohol and Addictions! Bad Choices were made. We gotta stop enabling these habits
Greedy politicians? Run the islands it's so sad. I moved off the island, I don't ever want to go. back.
@@islandlady-rr3fm I’m sorry you feel that way. Life probably is better where ever you are. I could never leave this rock. I pray to God I’ll be able to continue to stay.
I used to be homeless and i don't think it should be a crime to sleep on public land. But when i was homeless i didn't have a tent. I found shelter whenever needed and had only what i could carry with me in one go when traveling around. If i couldn't fit it in my backpacks then i didn't keep it. To think all the money given to Ukraine could have been used to build housing for every homeless person in America. Face it people, if government wanted to fix the homeless problems they would. Its a choice at this point the government is doing.
That’s almost as bad as Vancouver
The problem is they they want to work just want a handout nobody deserves a free house and worst Noone is gonna hand out free houses are you dreaming
@@RVCM71 correct if they work for it
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I don’t blame the homeless to the government. People has a choice, it’s up to us if we are choosing to be homeless or we gonna get find a job. Most of the homeless is a drug addicted. We need to choose wisely in life. Do not blame to someone else that we are the one who choose that life. That’s why we have the brain. Choices is our responsibility.
I have lived here for 60 years...they just approved building over 350 condos on Turtle Bay. The investors are out of State. Hawaii residents will have to foot the bill for roads, water, etc. The investors will make millions while our ocean water get polluted. They need to charge all out of State investors a fee to build public housing. Every time someone wants to develop unaffordable housing units for the rich, they need to build public housing for our people who can't afford to house themselves. It doesn't have to be super nice, building with restrooms and laundry and enough to survive. If they want to move out after getting on their feet that's better. Thanks for this videa... it's real.
The housing crisis is getting worse. 10 years ago people couldn't afford to buy a house. Now they can't afford to rent. Unless something is done now, we're all just one unfortunate circumstance from becoming homeless, too.
😢 Clean it up hawaii, You have the money to do it. Help these people to get off drugs. Every city can make small little apartments for these people they live in a tent. They could live in a 10 / 10. Place.
Capitalism creates poverty.
They keep voting for the same government policies that created these problems.
@@tripplefives1402 Or the people at the helm of those policies keep cheating their way in.
@@tripplefives1402If you judge people based off the actions the people they vote for do. I got bad news for you about American geopolitics lol
Flip it and see how bad homeowners have it.
Just because you live behind 4 walls don't mean you're not in a bad situation.
So true the government has made it so hard for all of us. Everyone.
Clear your head and vote for Trump.
@@cindylopez5599 The Democrats, if they don't declare a national emergency and cancel the election, are going to cheat massively, they will allow illegals to vote in a federal election with "federal ballots." Vote early, in person if possible and BRING AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE WITH YOU TO VOTE!
@@cindylopez5599 2 sides of the same coin, biden trump
Funny how government never has it bad
@@cindylopez5599You say that but guess what most of themm all had in common? They moved to Hawaii 6-8 years ago...
Oprah Winfrey can't see it from her property
She’s in Maui far away from this! The rich get richer and the poor poorer!
Wealth for a few creates poverty for the many. This is the Triumph of Capitalism.
I’m glad to hear that. She deserves the world for her service to humanity.
I hope Obama is OK…
@@slee2819I'm sure he's thinking of you. At gitmo
@@slee2819 I think you need to do some deep diving into what Winfrey and Obama are about!
Thanks for exposing this, our local government won’t acknowledge this.
How do you know drugs is the main reason for homelessness? Drugs certainly wasn't my reason for being homeless . . .
No not all homelessness is due to drugs, but majority is and if you go and talk to the homeless people like he did, you can clearly see that meth is the cause. Are there other drugs? Sure but very rare. Meth is everywhere in Hawaii and it does destroy lives. Add that to milk being $9-11 a gallon and rent being $1,800 for a studio apartment with jobs only paying $18hr. I am from a state that has the most rehabs in the country, Hawaii doesn't have that in comparison.
@@Boneheadreact . . . them perhaps the interviewer should not search out addicts for comments. Go seek out regular folks homeless due to no fault of their own. it was clearly stated "drugs is the main reason for homelessness." Sounds like a blanket statement to me. People will simply run with it . . . and it's a LIE!
They might of not went homeless due to drugs but almost all turn to them
Me either mine was because a con man took mine and my lawyer sucked
And cancer
That lady in the beginning of the video.. broke my heart man.
very sad..
There are plenty of services and housing for them but they just like the freedom of the streets and hate to follow rules and regulations at homeless housing for them. The legislature throws gobs of money at this situation with no end results.
I love 💕 Joanna...she loves her place inspite of it all😊
@@69camaro19ya sad that lady barely had the ware withal to realize it was Thursday
@hpcam1 I mean it should be apparent she's not mentally thier. So drugs might or might not be a factor however she obviously is mentally off
you can thank groups like Air BnB for contributing to skyrocketing housing costs.
Yes and “house flippers” & the “state” for allowing all these “move to Hawai’i”, “come flip houses in Hawai’i” type shows on HGTV to film here & promote that people do these things that lead to our housing crisis.
Have you seen all the Airbnb owners complaining and even lying on social media because Hawai’i is trying to limit Airbnb’s?
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdomfacts !!
you can also thank the goverment and the states for going on a dam credit score even if you have a job pay rent if that score is low you are fucked
@@jerryangton408
A lot of jobs check credit scores too now, and won’t hire people with bad credit scores because they believe it’s an indication of a person not being responsible.
Plenty to go around. They just want to build more affordable homes. So they can have a reason to raise rent. Rigged Supply and demand BS!
growing up in california and watching tv shows filmed in hawaii... we only saw paradise. me and my friends never knew hawaii even had a homeless problem.
There is still plenty of paradise here❤
Worst in America. Even worse going out toward Makaha and Waianae
I admire Magnum PI filmed in Hawaii, the state looks very clean & captivating , that was long time ago , now it seems it is mostly ruined
Hawaii five 0 good show the original not the remake
People and corporations buying up multiple properties as rental investments or to use as Airbnb rentals is a huge part of the problem. We even let foreigners buy up property without limit.
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It’s sickening how we destroyed a beautiful place, it does look like LA
@@toddrodeo1349 what state are you from? not asking aggressively and not a democrat
@toddrodeo1349 it's beyond that. American infrastructure is disgusting at best. I bet Hawaii was a beautiful place and look at it. I mean sure it has roads and supermarkets but man.. at what cost? You hear stories of the waters back in the day around Hawaii and Australia. Teeming with fish as far as the eye can see even up to the coastline. Now you'll see those buildings from any mountain. One could guess the highest building is the tallest point in Hawaii.
Democrats have a monopoly on Homelessness and Lawlessness. San Fran, Seattle, Portland, D.C., Chicago, Los Ang, NYC. Hawaiians should STOP complaining about the homeless. You don't have millions of illegals that would increase your homeless population, increase crime, and suck up resources. Even Democrat controlled cities in red states like Texas are trash like Austin, Dallas, San Ant, Ft Worth, and Houston.
A certain group =
@@toddrodeo1349 your point?
What's really bad about poverty in Hawaii, is there's no way to leave. You don't go away to better employment opportunities. Things are so expensive, that I wouldn't doubt that regularly employed people are visiting food banks and a bunch of them are on some kind of government assistance.
I think there is a program to fly em to California for free. Not joking.
And why would anyone want to go to that dump ? @@robotekusa
@@robotekusaThat would make sense, the locals need to get em off the island, it an an island!!!!. The mainland has or at least had programs for homelessness until uh 10 million or so came to visit
They need to stop voting for democrats. They have been voting for them.Way too long look at what happened to maui.
let's be realistic for a moment, majority of the homeless population in hawaii don't want to work, are hooked on drugs or alcohol & they don't want to follow rules, yes it's expensive but they don't want to work already. i been homeless here and your life is what we make it
It's so SAD to see the broken spirits of human life ! how shocking the homeless problem is all over America USA! I guess if I'm gunna think of something good to say is, is when I use to be homeless for 2yrs I stayed in a camp that looked after each other, and if you were elderly then in the camp people would take turns helping them by sharing there there food with them, helping them wash clothes and sharing there tents, you really have to help out in a camp to get into one that's not gunna steal you'd last roll of Tp. Thank u Nick for traveling all over and taking me along with u with theae videos!! Haha. BTW I'm from San Antonio ,Texas come back and see us again one day. Michelle
Look what happened to Maui. It seems like no one cares. Biden
Absolutely does not care at all.
What did you do to stop being homeless?
Wat about your parents?? Were u alone?
Broken Spirits? Really? I got a job when I was sixteen and worked for the next 45 years. I grew up instead of being a perpetual adolescent.Don`t blame other people for your mistakes.
Our problem is estimated 20,000 families have more money than the bottom half combined, That's the problem with the country.
The man that's been living on the beach for 2 years: he was talking about Micronesians that had to be relocated as the result of the atomic bomb tests in the '50's and '60's.
There's one island where we built a concrete dome over ground zero, but its leaking radiation, so the island isn't habitable anymore.
😔😔 That is awful. It angers me so much the way beautiful parts of our Earth have became toxic and unfit for life. I am sure that nothing is being done to contain the leak either, which is quite serious given the ocean is & has b
At 23:22 you are interviewing homeless next to Jack in the Box. On the other side of Jack in the Box is WA Middle school. An open air no security school. There recently was a SA in the outside bathroom. A 8th grader with an ankle bracelet assulted a non verbal 6th GR boy..Mr Harano, The principal asked parents to check phones as the assult was recorded. He gad ZERO interest in letting the public know. Luckily, advocates and whistleblowers did.
What do you men open air? They have classrooms.
And what does that have to with homelessness?
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Mental issues + bad quality drugs + drugs + alcohol = non recovery
I work 2 fulltime jobs and it's really hard
Yes and its hard working people that are supporting these junkies
What's really sad is that the mentally ill get hooked on drugs to cope and drugs can cause mental illness. Such a vicious cycle. America needs to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and addiction. So much suffering.
Not sure America can be proud of what they did with the islands they stole from the natives. But this is what America is. This channel shows you what America really is.
America didn’t steal anything, a$$hole. It’s was acquired. If the United States hadn’t taken it some other country would have. Seriously, this is 2024, do actually think Hawaiians would be dancing in grass skirts and living as they did in the 18th century still?
No one stole anything, the land is still there and so called Hawaiian's still occupy it.
It’s despicable!
thats not America man, a giod many of the homeless are native hawaiians playing the victim game and living off public assistance
@@David53DYour ignorance can be fixed. Sad that your parents didn't ensure you received an education, but with some effort you can improve.
I arrived in Hawaii over a week ago for a 10 day holiday from Australia and am staying in Waikiki. I am amazed at the amount of homelessness around this area. I took a bus ride to visit the Arizona memorial, and it seemed to get worse the further I went.
I felt guilty being in a hotel when people are sleeping in parks and bus stops.
I met a lovely, very well-educated man and wondered what I could do to help. I started taking the share of the food that I would have eaten from the buffet each morning, along with coffee, butter, bread, and honey/jam to him each morning. I made sure I would only take the amount I would have had eaten as I didn't want to get in trouble. I asked if it was enough, and he replied, more than enough, as I share it with the others.
So here is a man who is starving on the streets but still shares.
The way I have seen some of the locals and people from the mainland look at the homeless is terrible.
Something needs to be done. I am sad because I can only help with food one more day before I return to Australia.
This is an EVERYWHERE problem.
But “everywhere” doesn’t have US states sending their homeless there on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate their own homeless problem, Hawai’i DOES.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom🤣 nobody “sends” homeless people anywhere except to the liberal cities here in the mainland being overrun by illegals that crossed the Mexican border.. Hawaii is not full of Mexicans is it? Nope. It’s full of your own people that you created to be homeless due to political and economic greed. No state has property values and rent like your state, California and Illinois might be a close 2nd but look at their homeless population numbers. Then lookup the number of homeless drug addicts in those states, your state has an abundance of drug users and it always has. We’ve all seen DOG the bounty hunter..
And keep rising up tax not making any sense. Crackhead and the rooster Got me 😂😂 nice Nick!
Most of homeless in Honolulu area are not locals Send them back where they came from keep sending them homeless to Hawaii
Your clueless. You guys in the mainland send your homeless here...
Get the picture??
Nope America
Uncle with the fishing pole towards the end bought me to tears because this is the reality of my people.
It's videos like this that make me appreciate my home in the frost belt. Greetings from Wisconsin.
Not really a brag. Its Wisconsin
@@AlphaFlight says you
@@joeespo177and me brah
Milwaukee is totally crime riden. Google it.
@AlphaFlight At least Wisconsin doesn’t have homeless running around everywhere, it seems like a great state
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I’ve only watched a third of this episode and I must say that my heart is broken. I lived on Oahu back in the mid to late 80’s. Army Schofield Barracks. It was nothing like this. I’ve always wanted to return for a week or two but this is absolutely disheartening.
That sweet lady that you interviewed at the beginning bless her I wish her the very best I feel so sorry for those folks nobody should have to live like that breaks my heart
So depressing... but thank you for taking the time and having the courage to dive in deep and speak with the people living on the street. It's something...
Drive all way to the end of Kili Drive right before Makaha Surfing Beach, and you will see the biggest camp on Oahu. There is a water tower near the apartment complex where you can walk in and see some crazy stuff
I feel so sad for My Native Wānāu of Hawaiki.. I am a Native of Aotearoa and to see what those Colonizers have done to Beautiful Hawaiki island and our brothers and sisters of their lands is very heartbreaking ❤
Ka mamae to ngakau - We share your Heart ache,
Ka mamae to mamae - We Share your pain,
Ko koe ko au ko koe - You are me I am you,
Kotahi Tatou - We are One..
Tu Kaha O Tatou Tuahine Ataahua - Stand Strong Our Sister's and Brothers ❤
I moved to Hawaii in 1974 after my military service to the Big Island, Hilo to be specific. I never had a housing problem, as I worked for the State of Hawaii. There was no homelessness, as everyone had jobs. Then, all of a sudden, the drug "ice" made it's debut in the Islands (about 1984) and everything changed. I interviewed for a position at ARCO corporation in LA, and was hired for immediate hire, & left Hawaii in 1986 (after Tina Turner's last U.S. show). THERE WAS NO HOMELESS ISSUES THEN.
It breaks my heart 😢 to see Hawaii now, with the homeless population sooooo huge. NMRK NMRK NMRK🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I learned about the ice from dog the bounty hunter
Don’t allow anyone to push you into the ground. Push back ten times harder. Stay strong my friends.
I left Oahu in 1990. I look back and realized I left before it got bad. I see your video and remember how the view of the beaches was clear and spacious. There was always con artists and trouble but I know it's worse 😮 so sad. The pit of my stomach just hurts so bad. How terrible it has become. Thanks for posting but it's so sad.😢
Only you would find a rubber chicken door bell 😂😂😂
Not only just in Hawaii but mostly of mainland America
One advantage in Hawaii is one can't freeze to death.
Nick, you get points for actually talking to the homeless people. Most play "Ain't It Awful"!
Frank! Hope you're well.
And you're right as always.
OTHER STATES ARE SHIPPING THEIR HOMELESS TO HAWAII
That's not true. It's a debunked rumor. Check with the Homeless coordinator office at the Hale. They publicly declared it was a rumor.
@@Lopezflies888 I have personally spoken to several homeless people since I moved here in 2017 and yes I know for a fact it is true.
Alaska did it. The only agreement was hawaii was not on the list for a destination.
@@Lopezflies888Ny is getting ready to ship and dump migrants and homeless to indian reservation areas in Ny. They already give them free land, housing,booze drugs and money monthly. I believe its Seneca tribal areas
@@skinanbones5517 I was in Goodwill on Beretania st when we first moved here and was talking to my husband and a homeless man over heard my southern accent and approached me, telling me how he was from Georgia and missed hearing that southern twang. I spoke with him and asked him how he ended up in Hawaii from Georgia and he flat out told me when he was released from prison 12 years earlier the state of Georgia told him he couldn't stay there and offered him a 1way ticket anywhere he want. He told me if he was gonna be homeless (cause no family would take him in, in Georgia) then he was gonna be homeless where it was always warm. He has been in Hawaii since.
Drug use and insanity. When I was a kid (in the 60/70’s) the island (Oahu) had maybe a handful of "hobos" and they were kinda known, and you just stayed away. Now…
Hawaii stop voting for democrats. If something bad happens do you think they'll give you seven hundred dollars. Then, say be on your way and be happy.
Well in the 60/70’s states in the US didn’t have programs to send THEIR homeless to Hawai’i on one way plane tickets as a means to alleviate THEIR homeless problem, sooo there’s that.
Yep I was a kid on Oahu the same time, there were very very few.
Yeah, a handful of "hobos" when I was in Oahu in 1972. Went to 3 islands and never saw a homeless person or tent back then. So sad now 😢
What’s the deal with the rise in insanity here? My friends and I just call them Island Crazies. So many people walking around talking or yelling to themselves. It has really increased over the past 20 years. Is there something in the water or is there some new drug that’s driving people mad?
You need a plan if you are going to move to the islands! YOU and only YOU should be responsible for YOU!….that’s just life.
Arent many of the homeless people indigenous to Hawaii? Its giving: They didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on them.
they aren't homeless because they live on an island, they are homeless because they smoke crack.
3 jobs and 3 years later, got us out of there! The DOE , the kids learn nothing except how to fight. My child said teachers don't break up fights right away because they like to watch. 😡 Happy and thriving in a GOOD school district in the Pacific NW!!!!!
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Me and my girlfriend work full time and have part time jobs on the side and we still are thinking of leaving g due to the cost of living.
I stayed in Hawaii (the big island) for a month and couldn’t believe the cost of groceries. That was pre 2020 so I can’t even imagine the grocery prices now. Unless you’re getting food stamps it would be so hard to feed a family over there.
IN THE END, THE GOVT. IS TO BLAME FOR THIS. CONCENTRATE THE WEALTH IN HANDS OF A FEW AND THE REST SUFFER.
Japan has homeless towns all along the river in Tokyo . Many gets pushed out in more rural areas
Japan also has a high rate of “self inflicted unlifing” and a culture that shuns and shames people for being homeless as well as a culture of representing your family.
This is very true!! I see it on another TH-cam channel !!!
@@fernandoscrenci4874 I never consider it as homeless . They just have a different idea how they like to live . It’s like permanent camping . No clocks to follow or people pestering or holding you to any schedule or signing papers u have no idea 🤷 what they mandating you to do .
The government should have special islands, cities or villages for homeless where they build them small houses and force them to rehab and work or study something. But they need to get them out of public places. They spent massive amounts of $$$ helping Ukraine and supporting other wars around the world but they don't seem to care about these huge problems at home
The only way to solve the drug problem is like they do in Amsterdam or Portugal. That will never happen in America.
Yeah put them all on Kaho’o’lawe
You've just become a Republican. Welcome !
The government needs to stay out of our lives. Freedom.
Nobody helps the Ukraine. They just provide weapons, and the US war industry profits. Not a regular person in the Ukraine gets help.
I lived in Hawaii in the '70s, it was a much happier place then.
@@rockscrambler6700 It was way different even in the 90s!!!!! It's unrecognizable now. No ALOHA. As he said that Aloha thing with driving is b*******. Too many people coming over from the mainland and overseas with their driving habits is my guess. Locals drive crazy too though
Los Angeles begs to differ. Seattle begs to differ. Chicago begs to differ. Hawaii doesn't come close.
I totally agree with you
Per capita
While I was on Kauai local business owner told me about how CORRUPT the Hawaiian government is. (Robert Kiyosaki has been saying the Hawaiian government has been corrupt since the 1970s). Anyway, they also explained that when Detroit Michigan (MOTOWN) shut down jobs, they gave a one-way ticket to Hawaii to anyone especially the homeless.
I think Hawaii should now be a sanctuary state. Let the Hawaiians have their land back. Too many greedy politicians there.
I live on Big Island for 20 years. Hilo is really bad now. No incentives to get sober or work. You won't freeze or starve here. I own lot and tiny home far from towns in upper Puna and love it. This is mostly a city problem . Stay out of Hilo Town at night. Lock your car if you park.
No jobs in Puna area and commute from Pahoa to Hilo was insane. School buses run during rush hour traffic, making it take hours to get to Hilo. Almost as bad coming back. Turns an 8 hour work day into a thirteen hour marathon. Easier to just relax on your lot, collect food stamps, and panhandle a few hours a week to pay the electric bill.
Big Island get too many people moving there and not enough jobs to support them. The only people who can get by easily are people from the states who move here to live on cheap high danger lava zone lots, live in illegal unpermitted structures and retire on SS checks.
People who make bad decisions in their lives like to blame other people for their problems.They are lying to themselves when they think it`s someone else`s fault.
Pray for those beautiful Hawaiians. THE United States stole their country
AMEN!
Mahalo for acknowledging that Katie. ❤️
Aloha, Nick Johnson 🤙🏽
My comment to you is of pure FRUSTRATION 😡
I'm born and raised on 'Oahu. I personally have been houseless (Hawai'i is my HOME) twice. Once, in the early '90's by myself and in the early 2000's with my son in a shelter (because I didn't want him to know the streets). Back in those days, the homeless problem wasn't as bad as it is NOW. Which is why I could go into a shelter.
I've seen & been on BOTH sides. There are different sides to homelessness.
1) Career homeless-they're the ones who REFUSE to be in society & are CONTENT to stay like that.
2) Mental issues-they're the ones who either had those issues with NO drug abuse and the ones who got there using & abusing, mostly drugs.
3) Alcohol &/or Drug Abusers
4) Families who are in the working class who can't afford to pay rent somewhere &/or can't qualify for places &/or are on LONG wait lists FOR a place.
5) Elderly
6) Veterans-between the last two, I'm sure that there are some of them that are just Elderly &/or Veterans 🤔there might even be some who are battling with mental &/or alcohol/drug abuse.
'Oahu DOES have, NOW a lot more homeless that HAVE BEEN coming there because wherever they're originally from IS giving them a one-way ticket to "paradise" INSTEAD of helping "their own".
There aren't ENOUGH places on the islands to help the homeless as a WHOLE. THAT requires $, that our State can only give out so much to the different non-profit organizations.
The "Aloha Spirit" has SERIOUSLY been abused. I believe that the Hawai'i airports should be like France where you ask them "business or pleasure", take down their credentials & "follow up" with them & if their job fell through and/or they're "stuck" they get a one-way ticket back where they came from to get the help they need from "over there."
When someone becomes homeless, there are "stages" for that. In the beginning, a person who isn't using & abusing... they're all "gung-ho" about NOT staying on the streets that they'll try EVERYTHING to get back to THEIR normal. When THAT "wears off" frustration &/or depression sinks in & they start to "give up" that's where alcohol & drug abuse can & might happen. There are just SO much different things/situations of even WHY people become homeless...but, at the end of the day... they're ALL STILL human beings and you sir, need to be MORE RESPECTFUL when you're filming the homeless while they're in their tents/homes like asking PERMISSION to film them &/or flying your drone 🤔🤨 (I get it, you want to show the public the REAL stuff but, it's just disrespectful when you're PEERING into their personal space like that 😮😡
The one in Waianae is called (I'm going to phonetically say it)
Poo-oo Hoh-noo-ah Oh Why-ah-neye.
Aloha 🌺
He DOES ask permission and IS respectful. Why do you say he’s not?
He asks permission after the fact and still puts ppl in the video. Also, the way he talks about ppl is disrespectful. He does this for his channel. This is not some selfless mission. Do not be confused.
We're the fools apparently. These homeless people have a 1 million dollar view of the ocean wild we are paying thousands to be stuck in a box viewing four walls all day. I'm confused now lol.
There is only one person who owns 98 percent of Lanai; think of how many people could have been housed there. Why would the government allow for one man to own the entire island? Shameful
Yes, it sure does! You are rich or poor in Hawaii! There’s no in between. My friend went there and couldn’t thrive. She ran out of money so quick and ended up being on the streets. She had to come back home it was so bad.
Hope she is ok
Bad planning and mismanagement was the problem with your friend. She should have found a job as soon as she arrived.
Right,it's super expensive there.
@@paulonunes2002From this series it sounds like she should’ve found 3 jobs
@@BiggyCheese-sf8pmshe’s back home. We are going to start seeing this problem real soon in the rest of the states.
This is the Hawaii Gov Josh Green doesn’t want you to see!! Thank you for exposing this, not that we don’t know about it. But it might open more eyes!!
Most people don't know it, but once you get out of the nice/touristy areas, Hawaii is totally ghetto. Very dangerous too.
My best friend moved to Hawaii. She said her rent is quadruple from what she paid here in Missouri. I'm still trying to get her to come back lol
Today, It brought tears to my eyes.
We lived here during the early 1990’s for 7 years.
It was paradise.
It still is. I lived there in the 1990s for 5 years and it looks exactly the same. There were plenty of poverty areas in 1990s as well.
I'm happy that you & your ohana had a beautiful life in the '90's...the homeless back then wasn't as much as it's now... because I was homeless on 'Oahu (where I'm born & raised) in the early '90's, by myself (on the streets) and then again, in a shelter with my son.
@@emmakahoe5233 That sucks. I hope you're both doing well now. Its definitely tough to get above the 'struggling' line in Hawaii. I was just renting a room in a house in Kaimuki with 3 other guys so I was technically lower-income, but I really enjoyed my years there. My wife was born and raised on Oahu and its very difficult for us to see home prices get so darn high there. We'd like to buy a townhouse on Oahu and retire back to Hawaii but I don't think its going to happen because of home prices.
But they have billions for war. Billions that could be used to help our own people. So disgusting Im ashamed.
Oahu, my hometown....man.
You know what think is happening? I think all the capitalism and all the advancements in technology are starting to break. I think in the next 3 or 4 generations, people with money are going to be a thing of the past. It'll all gonna come crashing down and we're going to go back to small villages, people fending for themselves, developing their own little communities like it was before all the high-rises, etc. Nature is gonna is start taking the land back, politics and all this crap is going to be insignificant because life will return to pure survival. I honestly think it's a beautiful thing, as long as all the synthetic drugs and cartels and all that are no longer able to have influence.
The homeless can`t live or fend for themselves otherwise they would be doing it.The pioneer life is hard work and most homeless are soft. Half of them want to escape reality with drugs and alcohol and laying on their backs.They never grew up to take responsibility for their lives, that is fending for yourself.They burnt bridges with their families and the friends they chose dragged them down.
Perfect way to start the video. I love this soo much and wanna see more of this across america
Life is getting very hard around the world. It is sad that our planet has become like this. War, poverty, but our government is wasting so much money
It makes one cry for America. Shame on all our liberal politicians who have let this become the norm.
The Hawaiian Kingdom is not part of America, it is OCCUPIED by America since 1893.
And all the Neoliberal ones, too.
What an asanine comment. Show me what your side has done for the people...
Non, ces sans-abri sont des adultes donc ils sont responsables de leur vie, il ne faut rien attende de l'Etat il faut tout attendre de soi-même
@@moniquesilverans3842 That is a staggeringly heartless doctrine, as well as a demonstrably false one.
its an election year.. thats why they cleaned it up
WOW, Hawaii is beautiful. It so tragic we let this go on and just send money overseas to immigrants that just come in illegally. When do we as a people rise up and get rid of these immoral policies, i.e., politicians?
Your government money to War abroad!
November 2024 is our chance. FJB
@@Malama_Kiwhy Trump didn’t do anything 2016-2020 😂
@@zoneout00 keep it up kid and one day you’ll graduate middle school….
@@Malama_Ki great comeback lol he didn’t do jack for the homeless but he did give tax breaks to his wealthy friends & donors 😂
Wow!! Thanks Nick!!💞 I never knew Hawaii had anything like this going on!!🇺🇸 Thank you for always educating all of us about these things. That’s sad.💯
A+ video!
Awesome overview and footage, very eye-opening and thought-provoking!
Why? We the taxpayers are the ones providing the revenue, why aren't we being taken care of first in a 'crisis' that is devastating our own country. We are providing the equivalent of $100,000 for every illegal migrant flooding across our southern border; free cell phones, free hotel accommodations, free transportation, We live in an upper mid-class town. We have noticed an influx of illegal immigrants in our school district. Lunches are free due to the percentage of low income households now in our district. There's no such thing as a free lunch, who is paying for it? The homeowner taxpayers are. The illegals aren't paying these taxes. It goes way beyond the free lunches, they are getting a free education, increasing classroom sizes, creating demand for more teachers, resources, etc. This all is costing the taxpayer more.
Indeed....the govt is causing this crisis on purpose to DESTROY the US...and cause that whole "replacement theory" in a more natural looking way, I mean, they can't just kill off all the "whities," in broad daylight now can they...we slaves got it too good and now they want to bring in new slaves on this here plantation/corporation of america...we are about to lose it all and also be killed off....maybe not every last one of us but that civil war is also being created by them...I hope enough people awaken to wtf is going on before that happens!
You live in a fantasy land. So much of what you say is not true
@@Sammy-il1qf it would make me mad too if it were true.
@@Sammy-il1qf. Complete political rhetoric not based in reality. Coming from the same type of people who don't want to pay for healthcare, education, affordable housing, social services etc... the same group that always wants to cut taxes on corporations and the rich, suddenly care about the working class Americans lol. If you want things to "improve" then you need to support programs that actually help working class Americans, but most of you don't. Most of you support politicians who want to cut spending on every program that can make Americans lives better. We spend on average 100 billion on illegal immigration, most of that goes to border security, not for "free shit". Most of these "hotels" are being funded by state governments, not the federal government. And it's a small fraction of immigrants who get that. Most end up working agricultural labor and industrial labor jobs for low pay, which most americans hate doing because of the low pay, long hours, and hard labor. Most illegal immigrants are not getting free housing, cell phones, etc. Lol, thats such a played out partisan talking point not based in reality. We spend trillions on programs for American citizens, and it could and should be even more, and most American social programs should be completely changed because it ends up costing even more because we involve corporations and the free market, instead of letting the governemnt do it. We spend more on healthcare, education, infrastructure, social services than almost any other country which does these things infinitely better because we have allowed corporate america to provide services the gov should be providing. Allowing corporations to provide these services have caused prices to skyrocket, which in turn forces the Fed to print money which causes more inflation... And Americans continue to support politicians both republican and Democrat who mindlessly support the status quo, while things get harder for most Americans. Meanwhile Europeans have lower inflation, lower overall costs, free healthcare, free daycare and higher education, better infastrucuture, higher quality of life etc... and the funny part is they pay much less overall for these things, and their overall tax burden is similar to the US. But we call them "socialists" and desperately try and do the exact opposite of a tried and true working blue print. But ya illegal immigrants are the big problem, let's focus on that instead of the multiple elephants in the room.
Of course, it’s called “government”- literal translation is “mind control”. Rebelled against English taxation on tea imports but now they take 1/3 or more of our earned wealth every year to pay back the Fed and the masses don’t give a shit. “Bread and circuses” we are lost to apathy and popular culture. Enraging and depressing at the same time.
It's not right. They should help the natives first ALWAYS. We shouldn't even be there. It was stolen from the Hawaiian people. How sad. ❤ 🙏
Mahalo for acknowledging that, Tommy. ❤️🤙🏽
victim hood
@@sashanealand8315
Typical settler colonizer mentality, create victims then shame them for what you did to them.
I guess if you didn't have the money to get off the island you're basically trapped on the tip of a volcano thousands of miles from any substantial land with no way to leave. "HOTEL HAWAII" You can check out any time you want but you can never leave...
and no jobs for non-natives to get yourself out of it
@@sashanealand8315 Never knew about this problem until now.
You mean check in any time, but you can never check out. Sad state of affairs indeed.
It's sad to see, literal paradise on Earth in such shape.. I was there in '89 as a child and all I remember is a beautiful paradise with beautiful people and now it all seems like a distant dream that I want to get back to some way, somehow. It feels like a part of me is there... I do love those islands man..
Many homeless do NOT want Shelters, because shelters have RULES, and that is a large part of why people end up Homeless to begin with. The Irony.
3rd World...
No 4 or at least 5th
Did you miss NYC Bloomberg telling Americans around 15yrs ago, AMERICA IS NOW A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!
That was your wake up call. They always tell you way in advance, what they are going to do to their slaves, yes, that's you, before they do it.
Should have paid attention to what is really going on, huh!
The United States as a whole is a Second World country.
Tragic, drama and all that but at 2:21 some creative people still have the spirit to install the funniest doorbell ever 🙂
Keep voting democrat Hawaii. They let this happen. Please stop.😢
I live on Kauai and the trash along the roads is getting worse everyday Its so depressing
We go to Hawaii quite often but don't see any homeless people on the streets most people are bathing in the beach.
I live in Maryland. I’ve been to Oahu in Hawaii for a few days on vacation back in 2018. I actually am thinking about flying back to Hawaii and become homeless for a while just for the adventure and the fun. I’m educated, got a Master’s degree, a vast skillset and tired of all this crazy, expensive inflation. I did enjoy Hawaii when I was there. A great place to be homeless.
That burning plastic smell on the beach is Meth.
Crack smells like that too.
@@The716_ True. But Meth is Hawaii's choice.
Meth doesn't smell like burning plastic meth hardly has an odor I've tried it
Dog the Bounty Hunter had a few of those homeless camps on his show when he was looking for fugitives and some of them were pretty elaborate. Beth helped a few of them. One woman had kids. She said you have to get these kids out of here. The woman worked 2 part time jobs and couldn't afford rent. Beth helped her get a 1 bedroom apartment it was around $1,000 15 years ago. The woman said with foodstamps and welfare and her 2 jobs she could make the rent. Beth paid first month rent and deposit plus gave her money to get beds or something to sit on. She got a bunk bed and a blow up bed, a couch and table and chairs and someone gave her a TV. Beth was kind hearted and willing to help people. They helped a lot of people go to rehab and get off ice Hawaii's version of meth. One of my friends lived in Hawaii for 6 months so she could help her uncle recover from surgery. He was buying the house and it took the uncle, 2 of his kids and a family friend living there just to make the house payments and utilities. They worked full time and 2 of them worked a 2nd job. The uncle got social security disability.
❤️❤️Beth
"Got money for wars but can't feed the poor"
12:58 this guy deserves a home man i can tell he's not on drugs he's got cute pups that look healthy man i feel for the guy. Like i realize the stigma and many homeless are strung out unwilling to take rehab i get that but this dude obviously isn't on drugs why WHY do we allow him to be pushed out of society like this? Thank you Nick for showing not every homeless person is there cuz of drugs.
Great video Nick 🙏🏼
You could sober up all the homeless people in the USA, give them all a college education and a degree, and there still wouldn't be enough jobs for them.
college was a big lie all these years.. been lied to about everything !!!!!!!!
Why do they need a colleges education? Colleges are just a brain washing factory. We need more people learning a trade.
I received a BA a degree in the late 80’s, and before the brainwashing thank God! However, in retrospect, I wish I had learned a trade instead.
They already have a B.S. in Homelessness...
They're just out there doing fieldwork..
Who says they wouldn’t create jobs? Many cemeteries are filled with individuals who never gave life any effort. There is enough for everyone. There would be enough jobs for everyone as there is now but many just don’t want to learn new skills or give it any effort
@Nothing_means_nuthin Et alors, c'est un travail honnête
most people don't realize that most homeless people are crazy and that most that crazy comes from brain damage from drug use. Irreparable damage
YEP! DRUG INDUSED PSYCOSIS!
Because it's too expensive there
You're such a great guy Nick
Sad to see the Kupuna (elders) homeless 😢
Nick, this crazy guy who followed you until he got $5 surpassed all the other homeless people in terms of audacity and madness, he accumulated a real dump of garbage and rubble right on top of the river. I don't understand how a city council can allow someone to do something like this in a canal, a city watercourse, which could cause a blockage and flooding in the event of heavy rain.
Becuse crackheads have more rights than decent upstanding citizens!
The DEms are in control on Hawaii."Do your own thing" is their mantra.What they should do is give them a bath and pay for a one way ticket anywhere but there.
You can take the people out of the slums BUT …. YOU CAN’T TAKE THE SLUMS OUT OF THE PEOPLE….
It saddens my heart to see stuff like this on social media bcoz this makes the homeless situation we deal with here in Hawai'i much more real. In reality our people (the locals) out there isn't homeless. They are houseless. Hawai'i Is Our home. It's the cost of living here that is forcing our ppl to leave their homes and go houseless. Our ppl are even being forced to leave the island and move somewhere else. As for the other homeless's they are being sent here by the state that they were from and for them this is sad. They are told Hawai'i is warmer unlike the burning cold cities they will leave behind. So the homeless gladly accept the free trip to paradise only to find that living in paradise isn't all what they thougt. And once they get here they are stuck. This is when drugs, alchohol and crime becomes their only means of survival. So yes you see many ppl with mental health issues (ppl from all walks of life who once upon a time had a life) out on the streets and even on our beautiful beaches. If you all wanna help ppl like this raise awareness of the truth behind what these ppl are going through. Not jst in Hawai'i but around the United States.
Lesson for the day. It is not a homeless problem. It is a drug problem.
AND a mental illness problem as well.
and the powers that be supply the drugs to people,its all by design,its ww3 with no bullets and bombs,the modern world is a scam
Yes. I wonder how much of the homeless came here from other places?
Mental plays a part but so does weak minds.
It's a democrat problem.
I am a Korean War veteran served 1951 to 1953 Decorated with medals including the Ambassador For Peace Medal.
God Bless you. My dad was in Korea about the time you were. Something happened to him mentally on the battlefield and he went home and his dad wouldn't let him stay. The Army took him back and he became a WWII veteran in addition to Korean War. I tried to get him into the veterans home in DE and he ended up in a home where they beat him until unconscious with a broken leg he was admitted to the hospital where he lasted about a week and was quickly cremated so that no autopsy could be completed with death certificate stating natural causes.
It takes gut to do this. Thanks for interviewing these nice people.
Portland, OR, Seattle, WA and a few other cities in Calif have been quietly giving homeless 1 way plane tickets to HI and AK, knowing that its nearly impossible to come back once they land there w/ no resources. Ketchikan AK is going thru similar influx issues. Its an island as well.
Homeless,but they can afford to buy drugs?…how is that possible 🤷♀️??
They cleaned up China Town because Hawaii got wind you were coming, Nick ; )
I think so Heather!
@@heather957 I lived in that area until May. I have never seen it so clean ! Unrecognizable
This is Methed up!