Honolulu’s Homeless, an Eviction Notice

75 remaning tents sitting on the sidewalk on Ilalo Street in Honolulu are about to be evicted by the officials. State officials say that they are simply trying to clean up the waterfront and make it more pleasurable to tourism. 

“I understand that they are caught between a rock and a hard place,” Doran J. Porter, executive director of the Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance in Hawaii, said of state officials. “This isn’t an appropriate place for lean-tos and tents.”

 I know how it is to be a tourist and if i were to witness a bunch of homeless people out on the waterfront living in tents it would throw me off and make myself second guess if this is an enjoyable tourist location. I do believe that the spot these homeless people picked is the wrong place to set up camp and is an obvious spot to be kicked out of. But its state officials jobs to allow the opportunity for these homeless people to have cheap living places so that they can get off the streets.