California has been doing it for decades. Its cheaper to fly an indigent person elsewhere than a weeks accomodations through the industrialized poverty system. Many were sent here.
I bet most of these are sent to CA where the homelessness problem is beyond extreme. If tit-for-tat, CA should be sending unhoused (new more respectful term for ‘homeless”) people to Hawaii! Nimby and discrimination!
During the next four years I foresee more than 2000 now housed families and citizens becoming homeless. When you call 211 it seems as though there are resources…the buildings are staffed …people hold the appropriate titles….there are centers built and donated for the very purpose of preventing homelessness and helping get people homes…it is a loop of denials and excuses never helping anyone. Look try for yourself and see I try help many…nowhere helps….ever. all excuse for say can’t help
I always heard California and Nevada did this. Just ask where they wanted to go and gave them a flight or bus voucher.
Hawaii doesn’t have the mental health and addiction treatment space to spare
CA is notorious for doing this to NV, especially here in Vegas where we have zero homeless or mental health infrastructure. And then we do it right back to them. I would not be surprised if we off-shored our homeless problem to other states too, not just to Hawai’i.
Having family in Portland and watching the homeless problem the last few years makes this sounds like an opportunity to reunite families. Unfortunately most families have written off these members because of drugs or mental state. Then there are those that choose that life style (hobos, bums). Portland has the shelters, decriminalized drugs, needle exchanges, food and clothing plus groups that go around the city and erect tents. It’s never enough. The saying beds for heads will get them off the street will not always work when these people keep coming from out of town and overwhelm a system that is failed with too few treatment and mental housing. I could keep writing personal experiences but space is limited.
We have a large population of people experiencing homelessness in my city. We aren’t exporting them back “home” because the reasons they are unhoused here will only follow them to their new location. It’s time to stop passing these poor folks from state to state and find a solution (mental health services, drug/alcohol treatment, affordable housing).
Also, it is unkind to label people with their housing status. They are people first, not homeless first. This kind of labeling only further alienates these neighbors as “other.”
Will you be footing the bill? Hawaii is already struggling with their current infrastructure. You want them to just welcome all until Hawaii is crushed under everyone else’s problem? Hawaii, like WA state, Oregon and San Franciso gas homeless and mentally ill people shipped from other states as a rehoming program. This is ridiculous.
This is Amazing!!! Please do this and I’ll even volunteer to help.
California has been doing it for decades. Its cheaper to fly an indigent person elsewhere than a weeks accomodations through the industrialized poverty system. Many were sent here.
Well then, how about sending back illegal immigrants that came over the border! There are thousands of them! And in every state.
I bet most of these are sent to CA where the homelessness problem is beyond extreme. If tit-for-tat, CA should be sending unhoused (new more respectful term for ‘homeless”) people to Hawaii! Nimby and discrimination!
They should send all outsiders, homeless or not, back home.
Including you……
During the next four years I foresee more than 2000 now housed families and citizens becoming homeless. When you call 211 it seems as though there are resources…the buildings are staffed …people hold the appropriate titles….there are centers built and donated for the very purpose of preventing homelessness and helping get people homes…it is a loop of denials and excuses never helping anyone. Look try for yourself and see I try help many…nowhere helps….ever. all excuse for say can’t help
Agreed
I always heard California and Nevada did this. Just ask where they wanted to go and gave them a flight or bus voucher.
Hawaii doesn’t have the mental health and addiction treatment space to spare
CA is notorious for doing this to NV, especially here in Vegas where we have zero homeless or mental health infrastructure. And then we do it right back to them. I would not be surprised if we off-shored our homeless problem to other states too, not just to Hawai’i.
Classic case of pulling up the ladder after you’ve made it. Send all back who came to Hawaii after the year I came.
Send them back where they came from. There’s no reason Hawaii should be a dumping ground for those from other states.
Having family in Portland and watching the homeless problem the last few years makes this sounds like an opportunity to reunite families. Unfortunately most families have written off these members because of drugs or mental state. Then there are those that choose that life style (hobos, bums). Portland has the shelters, decriminalized drugs, needle exchanges, food and clothing plus groups that go around the city and erect tents. It’s never enough. The saying beds for heads will get them off the street will not always work when these people keep coming from out of town and overwhelm a system that is failed with too few treatment and mental housing. I could keep writing personal experiences but space is limited.
We have a large population of people experiencing homelessness in my city. We aren’t exporting them back “home” because the reasons they are unhoused here will only follow them to their new location. It’s time to stop passing these poor folks from state to state and find a solution (mental health services, drug/alcohol treatment, affordable housing).
Also, it is unkind to label people with their housing status. They are people first, not homeless first. This kind of labeling only further alienates these neighbors as “other.”
But a lot of these homeless people weren’t from Hawaii to begin with. They should be sent back to whatever state sent them to Hawaii.
Will you be footing the bill? Hawaii is already struggling with their current infrastructure. You want them to just welcome all until Hawaii is crushed under everyone else’s problem? Hawaii, like WA state, Oregon and San Franciso gas homeless and mentally ill people shipped from other states as a rehoming program. This is ridiculous.