Gov. Josh Green pledged to place the state’s first medical respite kauhale “in my backyard” last month — and Tuesday, the first housing unit arrived. It’s one of 10 tiny homes, along with a hygiene trailer, security unit and nursing unit, to be placed in the state Department of Health parking lot, just steps away from the governor’s mansion.

The kauhale will shelter people released back into homelessness following emergency-room or inpatient care from any urban Honolulu hospital, who are medically frail or need continued medical attention. It’s the first sheltered medical community for homeless people in Oahu’s urban core, an encouraging step.