Letter: State needs to do more to aid Hawaii’s homeless
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Kevin Lee, left, and David Mueller sat along River Street as volunteers conducted a federally mandated census of homeless people on Jan. 20.
In regard to the Feb. 5 letter, “Please help longtime homeless man on Ward,” I live on Ward Avenue and know for a fact that the referenced homeless man has been on that sidewalk since at least 2019. It was obvious that he was immobile, but he constantly had food and water next him. A few days after the letter was published, the man was gone and I thought that officials had done their work. Then, the man reappeared near Ward Avenue and Kapiolani Boulevard, again in the same immobile position.
Homeless people are in the care of the state but it doesn’t appear that anything productive is being done to solve the issue.
My family and other residents are paying taxes, and it is mind-boggling that nothing can be done. We are not a Third-World country, yet we have people dying on our streets.
Yoana Stoyanov
Kakaako
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