Video shows a Federal Emergency Management Agency “concentration camp” in Hawaii.
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Video shows tiny homes for homeless residents, not FEMA concentration camps
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his isn’t a Federal Emergency Management Agency camp. It’s a tiny home community on Oahu, Hawaii, for unhoused people.
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A clip from a 2022 TV news clip from Oahu, Hawaii, is being mischaracterized on social media as showing a concentration camp.
"Hawaii news on strange concentration camp," text over the video in a Sept. 14 Facebook post says.
A person describes the news report and others in the video as showing "little cabins" in "very strange camps" that would allow officials to pump "noxious or incapacitating gas on a cabin-by-cabin basis."
"I can’t shake this sinking feeling in my gut that maybe these are extermination camps," the person says.
"FEMA CAMPS," the post’s caption says.
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These aren’t Federal Emergency Management Agency concentration camps designed to kill people.
Rather, as KITV-TV in Hawaii reported in April 2022, it’s a tiny home community for homeless people, including U.S. military veterans.
The project was created by the state’s then-lieutenant governor and U.S. Vets, a nonprofit that aims to help find veterans and their families housing.
The tiny homes featured in the news report are adjacent to a U.S. Vets facility.
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Facebook post, Sept. 14, 2023
KITV 4, U.S. Vets Hawaii hosts event for tiny home residents at Kama‘okū Kauhale, April 6, 2022
U.S. Vets, KAMA’OKŪ KAUHALE, visited Sept. 21, 2023
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