VIDEO — APEC 2011 Hawaii — Before and After — Chinatown Homeless Camp

How a homeless encampment in Honolulu's Chinatown was cleaned up before APEC.
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Videographer Diane Lee chronicled the cleanup of a homeless encampment in Honolulu‘s Chinatown before APEC. This video is part of a series showing what was done to put the city’s best face forward for the thousands of visitors — and media — attending the conference from Nov. 8-13.

Watch other videos in this series on the transformation of Honolulu for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference:

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