Build thatched buildings to house homeless
Regarding the homeless shelters on Oahu: Why doesn’t someone look into building temporary shelters for the homeless the way shelters where built here for hundreds of years? Put up some traditional thatched huts and use the building of them to build a community of self-sufficient people. Additional thatched structures could be used to provide space for food service, medical care and sanitation equipment. They can be laid out in such a way as to protect the inhabitants and the tourists from each other.
A group of clean, well-maintained, thatched structures eventually would go unnoticed on the landscape thus solving everyone’s problem, shelter that doesn’t look like a ramshackle child’s fortress, plus a way to live outside the system with a little dignity and sense of accomplishment and a feeling of family without being held up as an example of failure.
I’m just saying it’s an idea that should be given some thought instead of just telling the homeless people to go away.
Paul Widd
Kealakekua