MAUI LANI (HawaiiNewsNow) - One by one, those living on approximately 52 acres of land in Central Maui near Maui Lani Parkway packed up as many of their belongings as they could and left Wednesday morning.

“We have nowhere to go,” said Tricia Clements. “We’re stressing on trying to get all those stuff out just to have nowhere to go, and this is like my fifth move that the county has made us move.”

Clements started living in the bushes off Maui Lani Parkway after being kicked out of Amala Place in Kahului this past summer.

Now she is on the move again.

Advocates for the people living there say they want to live in a managed encampment.

“This is a really sad continuation of an old story which is a population of people, an incredibly vulnerable population of people whose very existence

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