Competitive Hawaii proposals sought to fight homelessness with federal funds
Hawaii government leaders received a personal invitation Monday to apply for a record pool of federal grant funding for combating homelessness. Read more
Homeless in Hawaii
Covering Hawaii’s homeless crisis.
Annual count of homeless records slight rise on Oahu
Homelessness increased again on Oahu, according to the latest federally required annual survey, but only slightly and in fewer numbers than many metro areas on the mainland. Read more
Hawaii’s first medical respite receives first units
The first of 12 units for Hawaii’s medical respite kauhale arrived Tuesday across the street from The Queen’s Medical Center in the mauka section of the state Department of Health parking lot, steps away from the Governor’s Mansion. Read more
First medical respite kauhale units arrive
The objective of the medical respites is to help homeless people — that come out of Queen’s ER — who need a place to recover. Read more
Hawaii to pay to return homeless people back to mainland
The state of Hawaii will pay to send homeless people back to the mainland as long as they have someone to welcome and house them there. Read more
Homeless kauhale villages in Hawaii supported at Legislature
The Legislature has backed expanding Gov. Josh Green’s “kauhale” efforts to create permanent villages of tiny homes for homeless people across the islands, along with Hawaii’s first-ever effort to provide affordable rental units for teachers and other public school employees. Read more
Homeless ‘medical respite’ kauhale planned on Oahu
Gov. Josh Green hopes the medical respite kauhale will represent a new wave of 25 more kauhale in communities across the islands. Read more
Homelessness jumps 9% overall on neighbor islands
The number of homeless increased on the neighbor islands by 9% overall, including a 5% decrease on Maui, according to the latest annual Point in Time Count. Read more
River of Life helps homeless with 40 sites across Oahu
River of Life Mission, once the center of blame for homelessness in Chinatown, has reinvented its model to aid the needy by shutting down its Chinatown feeding program and instead helping the homeless at 40 different sites across Oahu, with plans to expand to the neighbor islands and even to foreign countries. Read more
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Council member hopes to cut Sand Island Treatment Center’s costs
Council member Tyler Dos Santos-Tam did not know that the city had forced the Sand Island Treatment Center into his district in Iwilei, but toured it on Monday to try to figure out how to ease its $36,000 in new monthly costs. Read more
Honolulu plans expansion of homeless housing and outreach
The city expects to announce two new tiny-home kauhale locations this year with a third to follow as Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration continues to look at ways to reduce homelessness. Read more
New center will address ‘gap’ in homeless treatment
The Institute for Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a facility for a new approach to treating Oahu’s most troubled homeless people — a 24-hour triage center. Read more
Mayor Rick Blangiardi offers 5-point homeless plan for Oahu
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration has offered its plan to deal with the needs of the nearly 4,000 homeless people living on Oahu. Read more
Bills aim to add ‘tiny home’ sites for homeless
Bills are moving through the House and Senate that would expand Gov. Josh Green’s vision of creating more communities of tiny homes across the state to house the homeless and provide them with social services to reduce the islands’ homeless population. Read more
Housing official feels homeownership struggle firsthand
Hawaii’s new housing chief doubts that she’ll ever be able to buy a home of her own. Read more
Suspending laws is a recurring tactic in Hawaii to shelter homeless
Despite good intentions to improve the health and well-being of a vulnerable population, the tactic has been criticized — previously and now — as a questionable or improper use of a governor’s statutory emergency powers. Read more
Medical clinic for homeless at Punawai opens for patients
Health care and government officials Friday celebrated the opening of a new medical clinic in Iwilei serving the homeless and operated by Kalihi- Palama Health Center. Read more
VIDEO: Institute for Human Services Connie Mitchell joins ‘Spotlight Hawaii’
Institute for Human Services Connie Mitchell joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s “Spotlight Hawaii” livestream show today and answered viewer questions. Read more
Volunteers provide lunch, essentials to the homeless around Oahu
The holiday distribution was conducted by JABSOM’s Hawaii Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (H.O.M.E.) Project, a student- run, free clinic that aims to improve access to health care for homeless people and bring awareness of their needs to the health care community. Read more
Gov.-elect Green, Mayor Blangiardi team up on housing push
Green and Blangiardi on Tuesday teamed up to help announce a $2.5 million grant to Family Promise of Hawai‘i, a nonprofit group that helps homeless families with children. Read more
One-third of Hawaii homeless and evictions are kupuna
A new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by AARP has estimated that Hawaii has 5,116 homeless adults — about one-third of whom are kupuna 55 years or older. Read more
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