Frail elderly man living on sidewalk outside Hawaii hospital
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- An elderly man living on a sidewalk in Liliha. It’s a case that’s disturbed the community and highlighted a growing dilemma: How to care for homeless kupuna.
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SHAME on Kuakini Hospital!!!! SHAME. on Queens Hospital!!! They make more money than ever and they turn out our elders!!!! SHAME ON THIS STATE!!!!!! Most of these elder homeless have paid into this state for years through taxes NOW it's their turn to get the state to pay for them!!!!!! NO KUPUNA SHOULD EVER BE WITHOUT A HOME, FOOD, OR ANY OTHER NECESSITIES!!!!! Who are we as a society if we will not take care of our kupuna??!!!
good question, ask your neighbors who only care about the value of their house, and how much they can rent their ohana out for. fking nimbys
We are becoming a majority haole community. At least in the money game.
This horror administration rather helping illegal then US citizens. This is insane !!!!!!!
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about😂.
@@Hippitidippity Try to convince me.
@@Hippitidippity STFU, Go research it and find out before sticking yer head up yer arse.
People look to government for solutions to problems. The problem is government.
Well the private sector ain't going to f****** pick up the slack... They want to close down the rest of the help for the poor .
Millionaires like oprah and Zuckerberg could build many shelters for homeless.
Politicians are more interested in getting rich than serving the people!!!
politicians work very very hard to get re-elected...
Lol. You poor soul. Politicians are already in bed with ”Big Homeless”. CEO of non profits like Catholic Charities and Hope Services get paid more than $200,000. Such a modest income. Green loves them and Im sure the mayors are on board as well.
Omg. This is Terrible what happened to the Programs and the 💰 Money? Somebody needs to Investigate who is syphoning the funds. How Embarrassing to see this Happening in the United States.
Government corruption and high taxes. I think we should give Hawaii back.
Oh no you took Hawaii fair and square that's your baby b****.. all of a sudden something costs in American money they want to give it back..
When the people who run the Homeless Industrial Complex take their money, there is nothing left for the Homeless.
I worked in a shelter for several years, the top 3 staff wages were 80% of the money & we struggled to get donations to feed the people we were paid to help.
Hawaii, Democrat run and getting worse under Mr. Greed's WEF SMART City Fast Track agenda.
How's that Ferry & Train working out?
This has nothing to do with political party affiliation.
Finally a comment that tells it like it is!
@@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi Bullshit.
@@beentheredonethat814 Name one thing the Republican party has done for the people of this country in the past 20 years. The governor already came and said the Smart City wasn't going to happen. So take the snake oil you're selling someplace else.
@@beentheredonethat814 It doesn't..
High taxes and high cost of living, taxes are sky high in Hawaii, governor Green and mayor blangardi and state legislature don't care, all they care about is giving themselves another pay raise, which they don't deserve,
Where are they supposed to go when there's a hurricane, the homeless population has grown 100X since the last hurricane.
The city &emergency services aren't even prepared for that scenario.
State and city politicians only care about voters . Non voters have no worth to any politician . Homeless pay no taxes and use up benefits politicians do not see them as human beings . Very sad .
They should already know where to go.
houses are expensive here but the bigger problem is that land is not available for the homeless to live on, especially on Oahu. you can put up a shelter like a tent or shed in a lot of places but it will be illegal with no electricity or water or facilities.
We need institutions.
Do they have family members?
Personally know two of the people featured in this video. They spent their money on drugs, alcohol, and gambling. Now they are older and in bad health, they want the government to help them????? They have to take some responsibility for their actions. I am not saying that it is the case for others, but people just can;t live the way they want and expect others to take care of them.
What you say hits hard but it’s important that you spoke up. Bad decisions can often and do lead to very sad endings. I think we all know people that have been wastrels and then cry out in desperation later. Even with the help, they refuse to abide by the smallest of expected rules and they have the terrible life that they chose.
This is so sad. As we/people make comments from the comfort of our homes. You know them personally? Did anyone try to help them years/decades ago or direct them to social services or drive them or support them to get help and deal with the problems like what causes them to make these choices?... Did they try to get help, did they have a support system to help them get the help they needed? While the State focuses on boosting tourism our most vulnerable people fall through the cracks of the broken government system. Every day we read about corruption/embezzlement from reps voted into State/County/Federal positions. I guess what i am trying to say, is there is more to this story then just blaming State or homeless kūpuna. 😔
Regardless, dogs are cared better in old age than them, a civilized country should help the weaker and older people
I don't care HOW they ended up homeless, they are still human beings and deserve to be treated with RESPECT.
do you think these homeless individuals were valedictorian of their classes in high school??? these individuals have made many bad decisions in their adult lives to end up this way.
There should be DESIGNATED areas in every town for the homeless. ALL other areas, such as, streets, sidewalks, beaches, private property, government property, etc., should be ILLEGAL for HEALTH and SAFETY reasons.
So why can't everyone have a designated area then, you want to give them a free place to live so why not everyone
Here in Los Angeles, there are a lot of homeless shelter rooms available that are vacant, YES VACANT. Even some homeless people don't want to stay in them. These were built at a cost of tens of millions of dollars and yet voters here just passed Prop 1 that will tax us even more for the next 30 YEARS PLUS INTEREST TO DEAL WITH HOMELESS AND DRUG ABUSERS.
There is no definitive "one size fits all" answer, unfortunate, but true.
Democrat C40 City. You are on the fast track to San Francisco & NYC type distruction.
How about low cost communities to house the homeless funded by tax cuts for inept politicians and on empty home and foreign ownership of property in Hawaii. No more red tape, no more "lunch meetings" - just get it done! Where is the Hawaii pride?
The sad thing is, this is not happening in Lilha. It's happening in every state across America. It is an embarrassment of the government, congress and every single person involved including the Mayor's, all of the hospital admins. America is supposed to be this "great country". But is it really? We have a lot of people struggling hard to buy groceries, pay their bills. We have seniors who have to choose between food, ac or meds. This country is a complete mess and nobody wants to step up.
Put them in the new Kauhala small homes.
YES, YOU NEED TO GET THE HOMELESS OFF THE BEACHES ON THE WEST SIDE. I CANT TAKE MY KID WHERE MY DAD TOOK ME.
That's just sad how they kicked those poor disabled people out straight to the streets from the hospital. How is this still happening in the USA?
Because hospitals and insurance (yours and mine) cannot continue paying over $1,000.00 a day to house them. Keeping homeless elderly in the hospital’s care isn’t what our insurance wasn’t designed for and we’ve paid for it since we were all working, since the age of 15. It’s not the hospital’s fault. There are lots of abandoned but suitable living spaces all throughout our islands. The State has to pick up the shortfall, not private citizens who have our own Ohana to care for.
The hospital should be able to contact the shelter and even provide a ride for them to the shelter.
@@charly3575 that kinda thinking is what got us in this mess
IN OTHER NEWS,A LOAF OF BREAD IS SELLING ON KAUAI ISLAND FOR $13.00😢
Clearly, Hawaii does not care about its own residence and has been undermining the security of the residence that live here by catering to the very wealthy and selling the whole state out to the highest bitter state has been now completely gentrified and I’ve been living here 35 years I’m 63 years old. I am in constant threat of going homeless and losing my home here, because of what Hawaii is doing to us, it isn’t anything that’s happening from the residence. This is happening from the government of Hawaii hurting the people of Hawaii. taxation over taxation no boundaries when it comes to being gentrified they have not protect the residence here and they’re only concerned about the wealthy and the wealthy and richest people who live here want that’s it we’re just slaves to the rich here in Hawaii
Wow that's so sad. Maybe the state can make a tent area for Kapunas only. Sometimes the families don't want to take the kapuna in because they like to fight with the family members that is trying to take care of them.
The fighting shouldn't be going on in the first place.
@@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi Some of them love to argue and and give family members a hard time just for the hell of it.
@@kawikadee9670 I know, but there comes a time it must go to the wayside.
Very practical. These tiny homes for hospital transients (which they have now) are foolish. Warehousing them sounds awful but it beats being out in the sun, wind and rain. They can even partition inside into private lockable units and in fact, I think they tried this but the “residents” refused to abide by the 9:00 curfew and no drugs policies. You can draw a horse to water…
also many people might say something like "oh, poor thing" but that doesn't mean they're going to invite the homeless to live with them or even let them pitch a tent on their property.
If I wasn't renting myself, you bet I would. Our Kupuna deserve better.
The missing ewa beach elderly man was laying on the ground like that. People ignored him because they thought he's homeless.
are you talking about Frank Pangelinan? I thought he was still missing
@@jerryakamuadams6399 He's still missing because he was ignored. Thought to be just another homeless guy.
@@ThumbdownMan ah gotcha
Why not pick the man up and take him in to care for? So many want someone else to help, but would never open their own homes.
I live on Kauai, I'm 61 with heart problems & I was recently homeless for two years. During that time I saw twenty people die on the streets. Kauai has nothing, no shelter space (one shelter with 18 beds & 3 family rooms & max. occupancy of 19 with a two year waiting list, over 300 homeless people on Kauai at annual homeless counts, so truly there are a lot more who don't get counted) no transitional or affordable housing options not even safe haven land to park or sleep at. In two years I never had one night shelter or any hot water, toilet or shower and I was on every list Kauai offers (KEO, Family Life Center, Catholic Charities & many more). It is disgraceful how America throws out their older, disabled citizens, like worthless garbage, after giving our whole life to work for this country and our community. Hawaii is the only state in the country that has counties seperated by ocean. I cannot go to another county that may have shelter space or resources for homeless people. On Kauai, our mayor & other politicians, take lots of vacations, get pay raises & talk for years about plans to help the homeless crisis on Kauai, but nothing is ever done. Just empty, meaningless words with no action while they turn a blind eye to homeless encampments they drive by every day. And they tell lies about homeless people put into housing, that when I asked details & numbers revealed the untruths of Felicia Cowden's words. A bathroom at Kapaa Lihi was closed & water shut off over five years ago. No access to toilet or running water for a mile. And that affects everyone, visitors, homeless, kupuna and all people on Kauai. To take away access to running water and toilets is inhumane. Everyone deserves to have basic amenities like water. I saw a woman, about 70, a visitor, step out of the nasty port a potty behind neighborhood center in Kapaa, shaking her hands in front of her and looking around for a sink (but there isn't one). The image of her is burned in my mind. I apologized on behalf of Kauai that as she and her husband walked down the scenic bike path the only bathroom facility is stinky, has no toilet paper and no running water. Door on port a potty does not stay shut so her husband held it closed for her. Disgusting, disgraceful, inhumane and unacceptable how Kauai has become an island for millionaires and everyone else is thrown out like trash. Children, babies, old people & veterans are homeless on Kauai for years. Please shine a spotlight on Kauai and bring media attention to the lack of any shelter or basic amenities for homeless people on Kauai.
you were homeless for 2 yrs; wheres your husband? your kids? your relatives? did you drink? smoke? do drugs? crime?
IN TODAYS HAWAII,YOU HAVE TO HAVE BEEN SLAVING FOR AMERICA,PAYING TAXES,AND INSURANCE IN ORDER TO SIT IN A CAREHOME IN YOUR SENIOR YEARS.OTHERWISE YOU BETTER HAVE BEEN EXCELLENT IN YOUR FAMILY,SO THAT YOU ARE LOVED ENOUGH TO BE CARED FOR BY LOVED 1’S😢
This is scary.
Time to kick the Hawaii go t into just building some inexpensive shelters...like Arched Cabins out of Texas...find TH-cam.single sized cabin...5000 to.7000.Can be put together by1 person.Larger sizes cost more!Can stand winds up to 120 miles per hour!Prefabbed.Send for 1 and even if you don't want to buy from them...I'm sure your University of Hawaii architecture school can come up with a suitable copy!You're only building so goes and doubles.When I was younger helped set up.a single wall house on Iabu.1 bedroom!Guy said he used to be a construction worker and now was making these!Prefabbed..put the slab down with everything built in them actually could set it up with 1 carpenter in a day!He said he was doing the same on the Big Island d!Time go just go for basic quick prefabbed units!Someone...just like in California needed a kick in the ass!And don't say there's not enough land!They seem to be able to find plenty to sell to the billionaires moving there!Home Depot has plenty of garden huts that can be strengthened into a single shelters or more...again TH-cam videos!Ask habitat for humanity to help!
Here is a good, solid start. Get 20 people to forgo Costco, and Walmart, pool those resource, and find housing. Its a sad state of humanity when we expect others to fulfill our obligations so we can keep buying cheap, Chinese crap we dont need. With all due respect..
What on God’s earth are you trying to rationalize?
I like that .. There needs to be a change on the rule of them being placed due to their incapacities include home care
What the heck are our elected officials doing about this??? This is an emergency situation is it not? Auwe!!!
How about offering zero property tax if owners rent rooms what the state will cover to house them ?
I think you are dreaming too big. Lot's of those kapunas need care and they like to fight too, don't let their age fool you. I took my uncle in a few years ago and all he did was fight with us it was stressful, he finally went to his daughter's home in the mainland.
@kawikadee9670 it's true some are very combative, and of course, this would not work for them. I never thought this would happen in Hawaii . It's sickening and shameful.
Why is that affordable housing is nicer than mine?
Maybe because it's new.
@kawikadee9670 Those section 8 people live in nicer housing than me.
@@Critique808You want them to live in worse housing? Why the jealousy? You should be happy they’ve a place to rest their heads at night at all…
@anagonyaowusu3119 same like why are free food stamps snap people are F A T T E R than me?
Stop paying taxes in mass. Don't comply with anything they offer
Not ok:( help him:( I hate that this happens here in the states
How do these people not qualify for long-term care, Medicaid?
WHO PAYS? I GO FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS 🙏
YES.
Owners help elderly people . Stop corporate land grabbers. Get well soon.
“call a meeting to remind them” lots of good that will do. If you’re reminding them, they know what’s happening but has failed to do anything about it.
Has the hospital been privatized?
How is that west coast of Oahu these days?
Obviously drugs and alcohol, and the moral decay in this country as this was not an issue 60 years ago. And for you that say housing was more affordable then, I bought my first house in 1980 for $115,000 and my gross income was $1,000 per month so had to get a 2nd mortgage at 7% interest. My total payments were $640/month. So yeah I never went out to eat of do much besides work until i paid off the 2nd and then gradually worked my way up.
This is heartbreaking…. But everyone should know that all hospitals can’t make enough money because giving free medical treatments and doctors get paid less , and then many doctors are
leaving here to mainland.
We all will be difficult to get medical treatment eventually…
arrest those responsible for social support programs
Stop enableing them, all these shelters, food programs, needle exchanges, blah blah you just allow them to continue and they use that system. That guy crying on the ground in front of the hospital is pathetic saying you need to take care of me. Some people are just born weak and lazy
Probably why he is left alone. Because he's crying a river.
Exactly. Where are THEIR FAMILY members? Maybe tired of them because they don't help themselves? We all have choices🤷
@@deannasilva893 unfortunately most families turn out their elderly now.
Should be one room houses on stilts along rocky shorelines. Places with more than 6 homeless families should include, a trailer with showers and laundry at least once a week. Porta potties and a security guard to keep the basic rules in order.
Hawaii's leadership is terrible. Imagine coming over to someone's house and its as dirty as the streets of this state, you'd point fingers at the parents/owners... correct?
It is called Housing!
This reminds me of Luke 16:19-31, where the poor man who lived outside the rich mans house, died and went to heaven, we need to care about these homeless living on the street, not walk by and keep living our selfish lives.I too have been guilty of not doing enough, but I do much more than I used to, and I couldn't walk by this man lying on the sidewalk without doing something to help him.
FOR SHAME on Hawaii for letting Kupuna live in da bushes and die in da streets!!!
Kanaka aina was stolen now kanaka is house less Akua is watching
Why does this surprise? My brother lives in Hawaii and he stumbled upon a homeless man with an open wound. He tried to help get him food and water and assisted him in caring for his wound. It is what Jesus taught to help those who are more unfortunate and help the sick old and young. 🤷🏼♀️
IHS is open!
Where his family shame on his family
The Core program should read some of these practical comments that residents have wisely suggested. It would cost much less to warehouse these transient or homeless but from some of these testimonies and that elderly man on the street, they are crying out for private medical and home care and they want it for free. The elderly cried for “SOMEONE TO TAKE CARE OF MEEEE!” Listen with wisdom, not with your emotions. Many homeless have and will spend every social service dollar on continued alcohol, drugs and gambling if allowed. Take any SS money they have, put them into warehoused housing without a choice. They either keep the rules of residency, or they can be put back out where they came from. They make the choice. Housing with rules, or not. All of us who have houses have followed the same rules. Lead a sparse disciplined life, or abandonment on the street. We owe them our humanity and we deserve the same in return.
Rubbish all over the west side beaches
How do these people not qualify for long-term care, Medicaid? What’s that story, where they kill people when they get old, the giver? In the USA, we just leave ours on the street.
Omg
The homelessness in America is at epidemic levels.
Tax payers must insist on Kapuna housing be built for the aged to live out their lives . If they have no means to support themselves , we are to care for them .
The state should build a huge homeless complex in Kalaeloa. I would rather see homeless complex then a wave pool that only wastes resources.
THIS IS A WORLD PROBLEM, WORSE IN THE STATES.
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SHAME ON ALL OF US 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲!!!!!!!’
Expecting others to take care of you. Especially without paying for it. That’s is called slavery. We all know what to do with slavers.
However, congress has allocated billions of dollars in aid to fight foreign wars.
wheres oprah, bozo, fb guy, where are they, oh yeah, they want all the land there
Matthew 25, 37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
All about MONEY!!!
SO sad the state of affairs with the homeless issue. I dont understand how the sleeping giant(the Christians) can even go to church on Sunday and live the lie. They are the most cruel with opinions of homelessness, just listen to and GOP politician in the state. If it doesn't benefit the wealthy, it doesnt happen.
God help us because we won’t help ourselves.
I don't see native Hawaiians taking anyone in.
Take him straight to the state capitol
This is all democrats fault
Well come on you Christian landlords step up give this man a place to live..
Fucking bullshit that they are given money and sent here. That needs to stop ,
Lee Cataluna says we can't tolerate poor old people, it leads to tolerances of violence. Let's leave Hawaii to the people who are deserving. Aloha is too expensive for people who can't work really hard. Always was, never was a socialist place you could rest. It's conservative. For conservatives.
❤do something real
Let's Go Brandon
Guys!! I have a solution that may work. Send more money to Ukraine and Israel. Smh
REMEMBER Lazarus from the Bible 🔥🔥
There are three main categories into which homeless people fall: Those who are homeless due to mental illness or alcohol/drug addiction; Those who are homeless due to unforeseen economic circumstances, and; those who choose life on the streets, to avoid life responsibilities of housing, job, bills, etc.
There are empty commercial and industrial buildings all over, which can be retrofitted with micro apartments or dormitory style housing. The mentally ill or substance-addled can be housed in dormitory settings, where containment and control should be the objectives.
The buildings with micro apartments can be availed to people looking for affordable housing options so that low or no skill jobs 40 hours a week, will still allow them to afford to put a roof over their head and food in their stomachs.
Those who choose to be on the streets can then be subject to laws which compel them to take responsibility for self-sufficiency.
Containment and control? You make it sound like a concentration camp!
@@kikiD32 No, but in the not too distant future, there will be a different kind of housing project - one way in, one way out, armed guard gates, prisons close by, where the lowest class minority element will be displaced to, so that the cities they've ruined can be regentrified and made safe again for upscale white people to live in again.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs the money more right?
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Hmmmm? Let's take care of other countries and illegal immigrants first hoping they will take care of our country some day.....
Capitalism is great
One family wins
Ukraine 🇺🇦 needs the money more right?