Nearby homeowners are asking the state for permission to set up barriers like sand burritos until a long term solution to erosion is in place.

Trouble in paradise is real. Erosion along a stretch of beachfront properties between Rocky Point and Sunset Beach has been a serious problem for years. Several homes have already lost their lanai, or deck,

After parts of this home fell into the ocean, residents here on the North Shore are bracing for the worst. "All of our houses are next," he said. For years, residents like Dunphy have been pleading for help. But the Department of Land and Natural Resources has argued it's not the state's responsibility to protect private property.

Demolition began Thursday afternoon on the property at 59-147 Ke Nui Road by Sunset Beach that had started to erode into the ocean.

A beachfront home on Oahu’s North Shore has begun collapsing into the ocean.Witnesses were stunned as a portion of a home off Ke Nui Road, near Sunset Beach, crumbled just before noon Tuesday.The state says the property was owned by Josh VanEmmerik,

"The people of Hawaii are now confronted with the consequences of property owners’ failures to take heed of the ocean’s warning signs of erosion.”

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