Lahaina Hit With ‘Massive Homeless Crisis’ After Biden FEMA Housing Incentive Program Goes Awry
Renters in West Maui and Lahaina are reportedly being evicted by landlords who are taking advantage of a FEMA assistance program rewarding them for housing wildfire victims, prompting residents left without homes to take shelter in tents.
Journalist Nick Sortor recently highlighted the issue on X by sharing photos of tents that have gone up in Lahaina, warning FEMA’s Direct Lease Program has “created a massive homeless crisis” by offering landlords up to 175% above market rate for their rentals, incentivizing evictions and non-renewal of leases.
? THE BIDEN ADMIN HAS CREATED A MASSIVE HOMELESS CRISIS ON MAUI
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2024
West Maui & Lahaina residents are literally being FORCED out of their homes and into LITERAL ROADSIDE TENTS due to Biden’s FEMA.
Because FEMA’s housing efforts have been a TOTAL failure, they’ve now resulted to… pic.twitter.com/14nv9hgx8S
Sortor wrote:
THE BIDEN ADMIN HAS CREATED A MASSIVE HOMELESS CRISIS ON MAUI
West Maui & Lahaina residents are literally being FORCED out of their homes and into LITERAL ROADSIDE TENTS due to Biden’s FEMA.
Because FEMA’s housing efforts have been a TOTAL failure, they’ve now resulted to coercing landlords to EVICT their current tenants and replace them with FEMA tenants.
FEMA has driven rent prices THROUGH THE ROOF, causing housing to become unaffordable to the masses, as FEMA is paying at LEAST 130% above market rates.
Meanwhile, short term rentals sit vacant.
Many of these newly displaced residents have lost their jobs due to the fire anyway, so their only choices are to be homeless or move off the island. They’re receiving absolutely ZERO aid whatsoever.
WHERE IS JOE BIDEN?
Sortor documented helping a friend who’s leaving the island due to housing issues move his belongings into a shipping container.
Spent my entire morning here on Maui helping my friend load all his belongings into a shipping container because he’s being FORCED to move off the island
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 1, 2024
He lost his business due to the fires and has received ZERO AID from any government.
He was totally abandoned.
There are… https://t.co/0A3vQ4N2Zy pic.twitter.com/rL2NokDgE1
Hawaii News Now also reported on the issue this week, saying FEMA’s program was having “unintended consequences,” with families fearing skyrocketing housing prices could lead to even more homelessness in the area.
Social media posts are also popping up from displaced wildfire victims who’ve been struggling to navigate housing issues with FEMA and the Red Cross.







For its part, FEMA has released a statement saying it’s “not allowable” for renters to evict current tenants, and that property owners who do this would not be accepted to the program.

Meanwhile, Hawaii’s Democrat Gov. Josh Green has threatened to ban vacation rentals in West Maui if displaced wildfire victims can’t find housing.
“If not enough partners step forward to join us as we approach March 1st, I will be forced to declare a moratorium on all short-term rentals in West Maui, until we find enough housing for the displaced families,” Green said during his State of the State address last week.
“There are 27,000 short-term rental units on Maui alone, and — if we can dedicate just 10% of these homes to displaced Lahaina families — we can house them all.”
The situation is a mess and the federal government doesn’t appear to be making it any better.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
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This is the essence of the Cobra Effect.
It shows how intended actions lead to unintended 2nd and 3rd-order consequences. pic.twitter.com/B0INNpsVyi
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Watch Ted Nugent Rock Trucker Border Convoy & Slam “POS” Biden
Legendary rock guitarist and singer “Uncle” Ted Nugent spoke to Americans attending a trucker convoy protesting Biden’s open borders on Friday, telling the crowd he can’t believe a “piece of shit” like Sleepy Joe is in the White House.
After the brief speech, “The Nuge” played an amazing version of the Star-Spangled Banner with his electric guitar.
The demonstration will be taking place this weekend across several states:
The Trucker Convoy is in Texas and on its way to Eagle Pass. pic.twitter.com/JuOgKAU1UG
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 2, 2024
Meanwhile, security at the border is ramping up as the convoy is set to approach.
Security is ramping up in Eagle Pass in anticipation of the convoy and in the context of FBI warnings of a potential attack.
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 2, 2024
Shelby Park has been restricted to the media and local community for the first time since the InfoWars crew has been on the ground.
The crew is getting… pic.twitter.com/bVNCaeIIEh
Alex Jones on Friday revealed NSA sources told him a phony threat of a white supremacist attack on the border is being used to roll out facial recognition technology to be used on U.S. citizens.
Exclusive: Biden Admin Uses Border Crisis To Illegally Order NSA To Spy On Americans With Facial Recognition Technology Based On Fake Terror Alert Issued By FBI
Tune in LIVE https://t.co/5oD5rkDoig pic.twitter.com/yJRlZ0MKYb— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 2, 2024
The patriots involved in the convoy simply want to make their voices heard and do not wish to harm any of the illegal aliens or Border Patrol agents.
Border Patrol Pulls 70 Illegals From El Paso Storm Drain
Dozens of illegal aliens were discovered in a storm drain in West Texas near the Mexican border this week, according to authorities.
On Wednesday, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended a massive group caught entering the country illegally via drainage tunnels in the latest bust of its kind.
“USBP agents in El Paso, TX apprehended 70 undocumented subjects from a storm drain. These are subjects that were trying to avoid capture,” said USBP Chief Jason Owens in a statement on social media.
“What they didn’t know is how dangerous this tactic is. Toxic waste, suffocation, getting lost… Never trust a smuggler!”
1/31: USBP agents in El Paso, TX apprehended 70 undocumented subjects from a storm drain. These are subjects that were trying to avoid capture. What they didn’t know is how dangerous this tactic is. Toxic waste, suffocation, getting lost…
Never trust a smuggler! pic.twitter.com/vlWAkKNz9I— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) February 1, 2024
Incredibly, the bust unfolded on the same day that InfoWars reporters were exposing how easily illegals and smugglers can pass through drainage tunnels connecting the U.S. and Mexico.
Tunnels under the border are allowing anyone to crawl into the United States. pic.twitter.com/ACRds8LTYl
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) January 31, 2024
“This drainage goes all the way to the other side of the fence. There are no barbed wire protections on the other side. It is very easy to just crawl through this tunnel here and go into Mexico or back and forth as you please,” explained Chase Geiser.
Last week, Border Patrol rescued a pair of illegal aliens after they became trapped in a storm drain in Laredo.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents rescued migrants stuck inside a storm drain with no means of escape. With the assistance of Laredo Fire Department, agents were able to extract several individuals from the drain.
— CBP (@CBP) January 25, 2024
READ: https://t.co/m1tlx8AtEm pic.twitter.com/Uag9PMXIUL
Migrants and smugglers frequently use drains and tunnels to evade capture during illegal entries into the U.S.
Last month, border agents in El Paso Sector thwarted three such incursions involving 27 illegal aliens in one week.
Chaos unfolds constantly along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Infowars regularly reports.
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Using Border Crisis to Illegally Order NSA to Spy on Americans With Facial Recognition Technology Based on Fake Terror Alert Issued By FBI
Alex Jones breaks bombshell intel on how the Biden Administration is using the border crisis to spy on Americans:
Exclusive: Biden Admin Uses Border Crisis To Illegally Order NSA To Spy On Americans With Facial Recognition Technology Based On Fake Terror Alert Issued By FBI
Tune in LIVE https://t.co/5oD5rkDoig pic.twitter.com/yJRlZ0MKYb— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 2, 2024
Federal agents at the border have shown Infowars reporters Biden’s latest secret alert claiming white supremacists are planning an imminent attack on Border Patrol and migrants in South Texas!
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 2, 2024
Over the last two days in the middle of the night, secret evacuations of migrants…
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Grok Exposes Globalist Plot To Destabilize America
Globalists Will Use Carbon Controls To Stop You From Growing Your Own Food
In early 2020 in the midst of the covid lockdowns, blue states run by leftist governors pursued mandates with extreme prejudice. In red states like Montana, after the first month or two most of us simply ignored the restrictions and went on with life as usual. It was clear that covid was not the threat federal authorities made it out to be. However, in states like Michigan the vice was squeezed tighter and tighter under the direction of shady leaders like Gretchen Whitmer.
Whitmer used covid as an opportunity to institute some bizarre limitations on the public, including a mandate barring larger stores from selling seeds and garden supplies to customers. “If you’re not buying food or medicine or other essential items, you should not be going to the store,” Whitmer said when announcing her order. The leftist governor was fine with purchases of lottery tickets and liquor, but not gardening tools and seeds.
She never gave a logical reason why she targeted garden supplies, but most people in the preparedness community understood very well what this was all about: This was a beta-test for wider restrictions on food independence. There was widespread rhetoric in the media throughout 2020 attacking anyone stockpiling necessities as “hoarders,” and now they were going after people planning ahead and trying to grow their own food. The establishment did NOT want people to store or produce a personal food supply.
Another prospect that was being openly discussed among globalists was the idea that lockdowns were “helpful” in ways beyond stopping the spread of covid (the lockdowns were actually useless in stopping the spread of covid). They suggested that the these measures could be effective in preventing global carbon emissions and saving the world from “climate change.” The idea of climate lockdowns began to spread.
The corporate media has since lied about the existence of the climate lockdown agenda, but articles and white papers extolling the virtues of shutting down the planet in the name of climate change are easy to find and read. The globalists and their academic defenders wanted PERMANENT lockdowns, or rolling lockdowns every couple of months, shutting down most human activity and travel outside of basic production.
I have argued in the past that what Whitmer was doing in Michigan was a part of this agenda – That her garden supply ban was part of a wider goal that had nothing to do with public health safety and everything to do with stopping people from prepping. The covid controls were only meant to be a precursor to carbon controls.
This past week we have seen more confirmation of this, as a study out of the University of Michigan claims that homegrown foods produce five times more carbon emissions than industrial farming methods. In other words, private gardens could be considered a threat to the environment. The Telegraph and other corporate platforms have jumped on the story, and I believe this is cause for concern.
The study includes analysis of various gardens from individual family plots to urban and community plots and claims that “garden infrastructure” for individual plots (such as raised beds) contribute far greater carbon pollution than large scale farming. The study seems to ignore the fact that raised beds are more efficient and grow more food in a smaller space, but I doubt they really care to take these kinds of things into consideration.
The average person might be confused by this and assume the opposite is true – Wouldn’t growing foods at home be BETTER for the environment? Not if your funding relies on portraying independent food supplies as bad for the planet. The study is bankrolled by a host of international groups, including the European Union’s Horizon Program which lists “100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030” as one of its project goals. These 100 cities are then supposed to act as flagship models for the eventual carbon agenda takeover of all cities by 2050.
Such groups have billions of dollars at their disposal and focus most of that monetary firepower on climate change research (propaganda). Do I think that the Michigan study is rigged in favor of a predetermined outcome? Probably. When these studies are funded by globalist interests, their outcomes always seem to favor globalist goals. The study itself does not necessarily argue that people should stop gardening, but it does push the narrative that carbon controls are necessary, even at an individual level.
The Michigan report might seem like a meaningless footnote. However, as we witnessed last year with a study from the Consumer Product Safety Commission on natural gad appliances, these little and obscure studies are often used to justify large scale government interventions into people’s daily lives. The CPSC study inspired months of debates from Democrats in the US demanding that gas appliances including stoves be banned because they MIGHT cause health side effects, specifically in children (it turns out the study had no concrete basis for this claim).
Leftists and globalists do not care about protecting your health; they care about how these studies can be used to fear monger, thus increasing their power. In other words, if you can rig the science, then you can rig the laws.
We saw something similar to this in a UN study in 2006 which claimed that meat production contributed to nearly 20% of all carbon emissions and was worse for the environment than transportation. The study was exposed in 2010 as “flawed” (fraudulent), but for years the media and globalist organizations used its false conclusions as a springboard to demand limitations and bans on meat production in the name of saving the climate.
If you think the war on farming which is raging right now in Europe is only intended to affect industrial farms, think again. The establishment is going to try to use the man-made climate change lie to dictate ALL food production, right down to your unassuming backyard garden. And they won’t limit their efforts to the EU; they will come after American farms with the same restrictions.
This is really what the globalist “net zero” programs and 15 minute cities are all about – They are based on the idea that all human activity needs to be monitored and managed. They say it’s for the good of the planet, but the systems they want to put in place from 2030 to 2050 sound like a new digital feudalism, a society where bureaucracies track and trace and micromanage every aspect of your life. The elites benefit greatly while never proving that carbon emissions are a danger to anyone.
Why the obsessive focus on food? Because if people have their own food, then they might be more willing to rebel against further mandates. It’s really that simple. The end game is obvious – Control the food, and you control the world. Do it in the name of saving the planet and a lot of people will even thank you as you starve them.
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Shock Video: Suspect Hacks NYC Cops With Machete
Multiple police officers were injured during an attack by a man wielding a machete in New York City, according to reports.
The incident unfolded in Brooklyn at around 3:30 p.m. on January 22, but footage was just obtained by the New York Post this week.
Officers responding to an “emotionally disturbed person” call at a residence in East Flatbush encountered 40-year-old Jean Blain, a man with a lengthy arrest record who reportedly goes by the alias “Insane Blain.”
While officers were confronting Blain, he suddenly pulled out a massive blade and began slashing.
Bodycam footage of the brutal assault was released by the Post on Tuesday.
New Released Body-Cam Footage: Machete-Wielding Attacker Assaulting NYPD Officers During Disturbance Call
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) January 31, 2024
Police responded to a report of an emotionally disturbed man in an apartment on New York Avenue near Beverley Road in East Flatbush
Body-cam footage captured the moment… pic.twitter.com/OOeHF0BJbz
Blain can be heard repeatedly barking, “No!” before yelling, “You know what? F**k that!” and swinging a machete at the nearest cop.
The 40-year-old Sergeant suffered a head wound and two other officers were also treated for cuts and injuries.
A grand jury reportedly “cut Blain – break because of his mental health issues” and opted not to charge him with attempted murder.
He was placed in a psychiatric ward amid an investigation into another machete attack for which he was arrested on January 11.
Blain is suspected of slashing a man with the same weapon for no reason.
“He asked me, ‘What do you want?’ I didn’t say anything and he just attacked me. I didn’t know what to do. I just ran,” said the victim, who suffered cuts to his head and hand.
Blain has previously been arrested for allegedly stealing his neighbor’s car, exposing his genitals to women in Times Square, and for hopping a subway turnstile.
It is unclear what charges, if any, he may faces for the machete attacks.
Michael Yon joins Alex Jones to issue an emergency warning to those American and Texan patriots who wish to actively help protect the southern border.