Posted on 10/22/2017 4:00:17 PM PDT by RightGeek
Kakaako Waterfront Park on the island of Oahu has been closed indefinitely in order to repair the damage done by a large homeless population that has been camping there in makeshift huts and tents. This is an unprecedented move by the state of Hawaii. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has details about the massive damage and public safety hazards in the park.
"[P]ark officials say they can no longer ensure the safety of park users following a recent series of dog bites, fires and vandalism attributed to an estimated 180 homeless people living along the Kakaako shoreline....Right now, with dog attacks and exposed wires and broken plumbing, it’s just not safe," the report explained.
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"People are so concerned about the homeless -- who will be concerned for the middle class? The homeless steal, and in effect they literally steal public places by living there; they steal private land by living there," she complained. "They pick prime oceanfront parks to live and dare the rest of us to sound cruel when we say enough is enough. We play by all the rules, they play by none. Our community had to hire private security at our own cost to remove homeless encampments from our private property to keep the drugs and human waste out of our communities. They were using our yards as toilets, spreading disease, and the state wouldn't do anything."
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The state has no long-term solution for the homelessness issue. They seem to do raids when the encampments get too dangerous or the public health is at risk, then spend large amounts of money to clean it up and then reopen for the homeless to come back. This cycle repeats every year. Hawaii is under complete Democrat control, in case you were wondering.
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The higher taxes and the cost of living go up then the more homeless people there will be. No one ever really owns there home anymore.
Nope, not at all.
Blue (State) Hawaii.
Uh, it ain’t like you just hitchhike you way to Oahu. Drugs prevalent? The ones I see here always have disposable cell phones, cigs, booze and can get drugs.
As if the kind of people who get hammered at 9 a.m. and crap in public are going to wash their hands.
Is there nothing more retarded than liberalism?
“Just let the homeless camp on Kahoolawe.”
That would be a good idea if the military were still using it for bombing practice. If the state owns it now, I guess the bombing has ended.
House them then
Yes, use the tiny house concept
Hawaii is the most liberal state. I’m shocked that the homeless aren’t getting better treatment.
No, we used to have that, that is “the projects” and they were ungovernable.
So they all got torn down.
Yes, they had to close a downtown Tucson park as well due to homeless taking it over. Looks great now, just no people allowed to use it.
They probably wanted to clean it up before the planeloads of Syrian tourists arrive./s
Yurts, they can use communal shower, and kitchen facilities.
OK. And please add high fences.
Mideastern refugees, import a couple hundred thousand of them and you won’t have homeless population problem.
When the slave becomes the master
Simply marvelous. Hey I have a great idea, let's do this nationwide. /sarcasm
A once upon a time there was a lovely beach park in Hilo, Hawaii. This last July there were probably 100+ tents at the entrance of the park.
We saw a hundred dope infused young men near the beach on the hotel district.
I caught a whiff from a quarter mile...
I wonder how many are not from Hawaii?
They could charter them a plane and drop them in San Francisco, maybe nobody would notice...
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