The article on the city and state’s “enforcement actions” against the floating encampments near Keehi Lagoon discusses multiple times that the presence of unhoused communities near Kahauiki Village “sends the wrong message” to families living there, indicating that the encampment’s proximity is somehow discouraging to others (“Cleanup underway of floating homeless encampments,” Star-Advertiser, April 21). This is an extremely dehumanizing message being portrayed to readers by both the city’s director of homeless solutions and the executive director of the largest nonprofit working with unhoused folks in the state. That, on its own, communicates how the most vulnerable in our communities are viewed — as eyesores.
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