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ghoti
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01 Aug 2013, 1:10 pm

In the light of the Detroit thread with suggestions that the government pay to help the people there move, Hawaii is doing such a thing.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/31/haw ... e-mostpop1

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Hawaii will become the latest place in the U.S. to offer one-way plane tickets to homeless people, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat. Last week, legislators voted to allocate $100,000 to fund a pilot “return to home” program run by the state’s Department of Human Services that will set aside seats on airplanes — and possibly cruise ships — for homeless people seeking a way to return to loved ones in other states.



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01 Aug 2013, 2:13 pm

Well, if they are sending them to live with family or someone wiling to take them in, it's not a bad idea. If they are just trying to deport the homeless to be someone else's problem....



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01 Aug 2013, 2:21 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
Well, if they are sending them to live with family or someone wiling to take them in, it's not a bad idea. If they are just trying to deport the homeless to be someone else's problem ...

... then they will probably end up in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles region is thought by many to have the largest concentration of homeless persons in the country and is considered by many to be the homelessness capital of the USA.



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01 Aug 2013, 2:38 pm

Like half their prison population is sent to the US too



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01 Aug 2013, 2:39 pm

Hawai'i is part of the U.S.



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01 Aug 2013, 3:36 pm

To qualify for the trial, participants must complete a background check, be mentally sound, and have what the bill calls “sufficient personal hygiene.”

Those things would make a lot of homeless people not qualify.



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01 Aug 2013, 3:40 pm

Fnord wrote:
Hawai'i is part of the U.S.


US mainland I meant to say

They house most of their male inmates in Eloy, Arizona.



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01 Aug 2013, 3:43 pm

It's not irrational or even necessarily bad so long as proper arrangements are made with all parties impacted. Hawaii is a tourist area, so a lack of homelessness is a potential benefit.