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😫 I live in the hood of Hawaii but it's what I can afford and it's not THE WORST i could do here. I feel pretty blessed to have the apartment I have.

Oahu’s poor areas look prosperous in comparison to many mainland slums.

Half barrel buildings are Quonset huts…used extensively around WW2 by the military.  We spend $3400 for a 650 sq foot house with no yard.  Location is good, but not possible to make it here.  Impossible for the true Hawaiian citizens to make it here.

People please do fact  check.
These places he showed are not the ghetto. It’s a part of the island of Oahu where us blue collar people live. Have some respect. Aloha 🤙🏽

This is why when tourists talk about “I want to live here”, locals laugh.

looks like old military buildings they used during World War II, those half barrel houses are called Quonset huts

Don’t sell your land clean it up and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you. You can be poor and still take pride in property.

I live in Hawaii.

A lot of these homes in Waianae and other parts you visited cost upwards of 700k-1 million depending on how close it is to town. So it might look ghetto on the outside, but the people who own the land might have a million dollar net worth on paper due to their house and very low property taxes that allow them to stay.

You have middle class and even upper middle class living alongside people living below the poverty line who are renting section 8 or stay with family in their already paid off homes.

That's why you see a lot of nice lifted trucks parked in front of a 1 story run down 2bed build half a century ago.

I'm an electrician in the union, journeyman pays around 120k a year full time and a lot of my coworkers live Waianae or kalihi. There's a lot of violence compared to the rest of the island but nowhere near as bad as the rough neighborhoods in cali.

I was born and raised in Hawaii!  If I could afford to move back home, I would!

Hey nick, Filipinos don’t live in those apartments, they lived  in those 10 bedroom houses with other families.  And Filipinos are not poor, they work too much jobs to be poor. And most rentals are owned by Filipinos.

High fructose corn syrup destroyed the cane business.  It's 100x sweeter and toxic.

The reason the house was up high on blocks, is because they are planning to put legs underneath it.  Doing so will make their flood and possibly even fire damage insurance a lot cheaper.  You can see this kind of construction all along the Texas Coastal Bend region, but very popular driving from Aransas Pass, all over Rockport - Fulton, houses all around Copano Bay, Lamar, and Holiday Beach.

The poor find it much cheaper to not make improvements to their property or their neighborhood, which helps them to avoid higher property taxes and may even help them out getting charity.  Screwing the entitlement system is a real problem and more should be done to disqualify many who are professional freeloaders.

In my neighborhood, I routinely go on walks with a trash bag and pick up trash.  Today, I helped two neighbors trim their trees using my equipment.  I even got a free beer out of the deal.  But I care about how my neighborhood looks and I do a lot to help it look fantastic, even scatter grass seed in bare spots.  So, my point is, that a neighborhood is only as good as the people who live there.  They obviously could be doing something to make it look better if they really cared.

Oahu is not the largest island, the big island of Hawaii is the largest island, I lived there.

These people will never know what it’s like to live here, the struggle here is so real especially when “rich foreigners “ come and we are forced out, see we know the real struggle, so although a three story house in sunrise ridge is a dream house for us, we jus happy to have roofs over our heads, food on our tables and clothes on our back! If we have those then we feel blessed and learn to appreciate what we have!

The half circle buildings are called Quonset Huts. They were a prefab metal building used by the military during WW2. Designed to be very easy to put up and take down, and also be a relatively strong structure. After the war many were sold as surplus, and were erected on private land to be used as sheds/commercial buildings/houses, you name it. Guess they were a popular home choice for people in certain parts of Hawaii. The half circle shape probably holds up well to the winds there

Quonset Point in Rhode Island was manufacturing such structures, which they called Quonset Huts for WWII.

I was born and raised here in Hawaii, in Kaawa to be exact but I can honestly say that this place is just getting worse and worse. So many people are being priced out of paradise and some that are more unfortunate and can't save the money up to even leave just become homeless. The state and county are some of the most corrupt in the nation. My hometown hasn't changed much but everywhere around me has. The places I used to have fun as a kid have turned into crime hotspots, people are more violent now, crime is on the rise, local businesses are closing hourly, and it's all going to shit.

I left Hawai'i in 2010 & never went back. Born on Maui & lived on Big Island, O'ahu & Kauai😢 I can't afford to live at home anymore 😩
I got tired of the struggle 😞

What you're filming in Waianae is not the hood. It's Hawaiian Homelands in Waianae. The people living there are building their homes with what they can afford and most likely because they don't want a mortgage. You have to be careful going back there. Very proud people that are trying to protect what they have.