I Ventured Into The Shocking Ghettos Of Hawaii

This doesn't look like Hawaii. It looks like somewhere in the third world.

In this video, I explore the poor and dangerous neighborhoods on Oahu. #hawaii #realestate

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[franklinantonio]

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 🤙🏽

[Vinegarissweet]

😫 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.

[danielrapkoch]

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.

[RaveN_EDM]

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.

[hothotheat]

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

[gcsbien]

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.

[WilliamCooper-lf]

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.

[EricL]

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

[fakeologist]

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

[Thats_him_with_the_daft_hat]

I think it's funny that the BBC published an article about natives hating outsiders.
The BBC once sent a correspondent to Hawaii, named James Cook. Someone had a sense of humour...

[PointduNord]

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

[patdu]

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

[ms.donaldson]

My father left a farm in North Carolina and joined the Army in the 1930s. They stationed him in Hawaii.
I was born in 1970, he told me that he didn't serve anyone. He loved his country, but hated the military, because he watched them collapse the Kingdom of Hawaii in his lifetime.

[orman]

$55k a year is comfortable living in the heartland of America. It's just plain crazy $55k a year in Hawaii is considered poverty.

[lornaherlache]

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

[jdre]

Those mountains are just breath taking... I admire these people for standing their ground.

[tba]

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.

[fredretteketet]

Could it be the 1% is trying to get all poor people of the island to keep it for themself ?!!

[sawilliams]

What is wrong with you? Seriously this is so disrespectful. This is like going onto reservations and talking crap about how people live and disrespect the situation colonization has put them in. These people are making do with what they have and can afford because so many outsiders are buying property and local people can’t afford to be homeowners. And just cause your friend has lived here for 15 years doesn’t give him the right. Did you ever think what if someone sees their own home watching your video. Leave these people alone, you wanna do something why don’t you find some way to build affordable housing for local families. Don’t put them on display like a circus side show!

[joshm.]

Everyplace has its ghettos. There’s also a lot of nice neighborhoods too. There are a lot of high schools ranked top 2000 out of 25, 000 schools in the nation, so must not be that bad to raise a family here.