Letter: Homeless should clean up their own messes

It makes me angry to read that the city is looking to fill four more positions to enforce the city’s stored property and sidewalk nuisance law (“Oahu homeless debris equal to 184 school buses,” Star-Advertiser, March 14).

Unless those employees actually are required for enforcing the law, and not just for cleaning up after the able-bodied homeless themselves, I don’t think they’re needed. I’ve never understood why those who made the mess aren’t required to clean up after themselves.

It’s already costing us taxpayers big money to provide the trucks, drivers and enforcers; let’s not baby the people who are causing the mess, when most of them are able to clean up after themselves. Enforcement is what’s needed, not maid service.

Giovanni Sclarandis

Wilhelmina Rise

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