Video shows tiny homes for homeless residents, not FEMA concentration camps

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. 

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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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