Homeless should keep things clean
Homeless should keep things clean
Walking by the homeless camp near the Rice St, Kaumualii Highway, and Kuhio Highway intersection, is very uncomfortable due to the large amount of festering trash piled loose in the woods and right next to the sidewalk.
A top priority in addition to finding affordable housing and jobs for the homeless is cleaning up the trash and leaving enough trash barrels that can be picked up by the city of Lihue or county at least once a week. This is the only decent thing to do for the people living in the camp and for the businesses in the adjacent business complex.
Two things are wrong with leaving trash scattered everywhere in the camp and woods.
One is the possibility of a disease outbreak from lack of proper sanitation.
Two is customers who might want to walk by the sidewalk by the camp to get to the adjacent businesses will avoid going there altogether so as not to be exposed to these potential disease conditions from accumulated rotting garbage.
Please officials, clean out all the garbage and then as soon as possible find better homes for the homeless.
Will M. Davis, Lihue
Good idea. But who’s going to pay the cops? Politicians? No way. County funds.
Wouldn’t be cheaper in the long run to purchase one-way tickets to the mainland for any homeless person who wants to leave? I’m certain not all will want to accept this offer, but maybe some will. Also, maybe I’m wrong, but aren’t they violating laws or ordinances by camping in places around the Island not permitted for camping? How about enforcing our laws more vigorously? Maybe that would help limit the homeless problem.
Should California decide to send their homeless to Kauai?
Anyone struggling financially, on SNAP, on Section 8 housing, using Medicaid, not just the homeless on these islands, should be offered a one-way ticket to anywhere on the planet that provides more opportunities, a lower cost of living, and much better job opportunities.
Instead, we waste endless time, and endless Elected Official pandering, trying to figure out how to spend other people’s tax dollars to subsidize those people that want to live on the islands and can’t make it work or afford it? Stop the madness!
So the problem I see with Will’s solution is that he thinks the homeless bear no responsibility in this mess. His pleading for “the officials” to do something reflects an attitude that somehow we taxpayers are the ones responsible…as if we had a hand in it all. It’s about time the homeless are held to account, get off their rear ends and cleanup their own messes.
And, while they’re at it look for work. Or, if the county becomes involved get the homeless to do something to contribute…like being on the cleanup crew.
RG DeSoto
Aloha Kakou,
At the US Military Tropic Care at the Kapa’a Middle School., those military personnel lived in on the campus in those big military tents.
How about providing the homeless with these communal dormitory type terms…out by Mana or PMRF, provide porta-potties or septic systems, running water and soap, curtained showers,and a daily bus service that goes to a work center where they are sent out as volunteers to work 8 hours a day at public or private sector work locations.
Volunteering at small businesses, or private projects such as building affordable housing for families, in the meantime the volunteer homeless would be learning skills to get paying jobs later.
Mahalo,
Charlie
Jake, those plan tickets to anywhere on the planet cost money, too. That means tax dollars. And it pushes the ‘problem’ elsewhere – until elsewhere decides to send it right back. Shipping the poor away and making them someone else’s problem will only come back ten fold. And it does nothing to actually fix the issue. I don’t know what the ultimate solution is, either, but I’m sure you guys won’t accept any idea that involves taxes and still leaves the ‘unsightly’ within your view.