First off i would like to send my love and prayers to all those who were affected and devistated by these tragic events that the Wildfire has caused, and i have high hopes for our beloved island of maui to recover and become much more empathetic and understanding for one another.I pray that in our time of grieving and struggle, the good lord may help us all find some kind of peace and hope for a better tomorrow....
With that being said, My question to the resource personel is, when the United States Government sends aid for emergency transitional housing, does that mean it was meant for people who are in need of housing?
Moreover, why would you make that more complex and complicated then it has to be? Simply, aid for emergency housing was made for our people who are in a state of emergency that do not have housing is that not correct?
If so, why does your resource personnel make requirements for aid recipients that make it much harder to acquire, takes longer for them to acquire the help they need, and then not equally disburse the aid but rather ration the aid and at the same time portion it to who you feel is more qualified to receive more aid?
Let me simplify the question now, to be frank if you lost your house to the wildfires, you are now homeless, until you rebuild your home. So the government sends aid for transitional housing to help anyone who was affected by the wildfires, directly and indirectly. Which would mean it was meant for those who lost their homes and for those who didn't have a home to begin with, as long as they were directly and/or indirectly affected by the wildfire. So why is it that the homeless community that is growing in numbers continues to have their civil and human rights violated and discriminated on? I myself and a handful of others have been affected with homelessness issues that plague or community because of this type of behavior. I am saddened and disheartened by our government saving face in front of the world and acting like they truly want to help our homeless community but make things so complex and complicated to aquire simple aid. Is there a way we can measure who is more American, who is more homeless, who is more grief stricken, who is more in need, who is more deserving, who is more qualified to receive this so called aid that was given to releave the homelessness problem that is rapidly growing in our island of Maui because of multiple factors....
I have been advocating for the homeless here on maui for some time now. It all started when my father, who was never there for me in my life, was sickly and all alone on the streets because his family gave up on him. I left my mothers home to help my father and which in turn, pushed my own family away from me. What was i supposed to do? Let him suffer for what he did? No, i rendered aid when he critically needed it. that when i stepped up. I made it so that he would be a part of my life and I became his care taker. I was the last person he ever would have thought came to his aid on his last dying days. From his words 'the one I abandoned is the one that came and saved me. He has passed away for awhile now, but I still advocate for the homeless, like myself.
I want to know if your personnel is here to help the homeless with emergency transitional housing, and how is it fair to send certain homeless to hotels and airbnb and send some homeless to shelters that resemble enternmant camps... If you feed the needy hamburgers, give them all hamburgers, please don't give some people cake and ice cream and then the rest of them get crackers and syrup. We need more empathy and understanding, not quarrel and division... which it seems you want our people to do?
Testimony from Cord Munoz (received 10/03/2023)
First off i would like to send my love and prayers to all those who were affected and devistated by these tragic events that the Wildfire has caused, and i have high hopes for our beloved island of maui to recover and become much more empathetic and understanding for one another.I pray that in our time of grieving and struggle, the good lord may help us all find some kind of peace and hope for a better tomorrow....
With that being said, My question to the resource personel is, when the United States Government sends aid for emergency transitional housing, does that mean it was meant for people who are in need of housing?
Moreover, why would you make that more complex and complicated then it has to be? Simply, aid for emergency housing was made for our people who are in a state of emergency that do not have housing is that not correct?
If so, why does your resource personnel make requirements for aid recipients that make it much harder to acquire, takes longer for them to acquire the help they need, and then not equally disburse the aid but rather ration the aid and at the same time portion it to who you feel is more qualified to receive more aid?
Let me simplify the question now, to be frank if you lost your house to the wildfires, you are now homeless, until you rebuild your home. So the government sends aid for transitional housing to help anyone who was affected by the wildfires, directly and indirectly. Which would mean it was meant for those who lost their homes and for those who didn't have a home to begin with, as long as they were directly and/or indirectly affected by the wildfire. So why is it that the homeless community that is growing in numbers continues to have their civil and human rights violated and discriminated on? I myself and a handful of others have been affected with homelessness issues that plague or community because of this type of behavior. I am saddened and disheartened by our government saving face in front of the world and acting like they truly want to help our homeless community but make things so complex and complicated to aquire simple aid. Is there a way we can measure who is more American, who is more homeless, who is more grief stricken, who is more in need, who is more deserving, who is more qualified to receive this so called aid that was given to releave the homelessness problem that is rapidly growing in our island of Maui because of multiple factors....
I have been advocating for the homeless here on maui for some time now. It all started when my father, who was never there for me in my life, was sickly and all alone on the streets because his family gave up on him. I left my mothers home to help my father and which in turn, pushed my own family away from me. What was i supposed to do? Let him suffer for what he did? No, i rendered aid when he critically needed it. that when i stepped up. I made it so that he would be a part of my life and I became his care taker. I was the last person he ever would have thought came to his aid on his last dying days. From his words 'the one I abandoned is the one that came and saved me. He has passed away for awhile now, but I still advocate for the homeless, like myself.
I want to know if your personnel is here to help the homeless with emergency transitional housing, and how is it fair to send certain homeless to hotels and airbnb and send some homeless to shelters that resemble enternmant camps... If you feed the needy hamburgers, give them all hamburgers, please don't give some people cake and ice cream and then the rest of them get crackers and syrup. We need more empathy and understanding, not quarrel and division... which it seems you want our people to do?