Community leaders respond after plans for homeless station in Chinatown nixed

• June 2, 2020

Institute for Human Services nixes homeless triage center for Chinatown building

• By Gordon Y.K. Pang
• June 2, 2020

Plans for IHS to use $2.6 million in federal grant money to purchase and renovate a three-story building drew immense opposition from Chinatown businesses, residents and politicians. Read more

Virtual town hall to discuss proposed Chinatown homeless center related to COVID-19

• By Gordon Y.K. Pang
• May 29, 2020

Plans for what’s being called a Homeless Triage and CARES Center in Chinatown will be the subject of a “virtual town hall” being held this afternoon by the Institute for Human Services, the project’s sponsor. Read more

Column: Hawaii homeless services burden Chinatown

• By Lee Stack, Teddy Chong and Chu Lan Shubert-Kwock
• May 24, 2020

For the past seven years of the Caldwell administration, several initiatives to provide homeless services have been launched in Chinatown. Read more

Column: Want to end homelessness? Create affordable housing

• By Alani Apio
• May 18, 2020

Are you tired of seeing the homeless on our streets, beaches, and in our parks? Are you frustrated that nothing seems to work, no matter how much money and resources we throw at the problem? Are you resentful that during this lockdown they are more visible everywhere? Read more

Push is on to fund programs to prevent Hawaii’s homelessness

• By Dan Nakaso
• May 10, 2020

With the state Legislature re-starting on Monday, nonprofit organizations and the state’s homeless coordinator are warning about a surge in newly homeless families and the need to continue funding social service programs even as the economy shrinks. Read more

Coronavirus screening and triage site for homeless expands at Keehi Lagoon

• By Susan Essoyan sessoyan@staradvertiser.com
• April 24, 2020

About 50 homeless people are staying in tents and being monitored at Keehi Lagoon Beach Park at the Provisional Outdoor Screening and Triage Facility, which is being expanded. Read more

Hawaii officials brace for ‘big surge’ of newly homeless from coronavirus shutdowns

• By Dan Nakaso
• April 19, 2020

Groups across Hawaii continue the work of trying to get chronically homeless people off the street while bracing for “a big surge” of people who may soon become homeless as workers are furloughed or laid off, or face salary cuts. Read more

32 emergency shelters for the homeless built on Hawaii island

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• April 18, 2020

More than 50 volunteers, including fire department recruits, helped build dozens of emergency shelters today on Hawaii island to shelter “the most vulnerable homeless individuals.” Read more

5 homeless people come to Oahu during coronavirus pandemic

• By Dan Nakaso
• April 3, 2020

Five homeless people from the mainland — including a couple with family on Oahu — arrived in Honolulu over the last 10 days, perhaps drawn by cheap airfares. Read more

Homeless coronavirus quarantine site in Iwilei expected to open next week

• By Dan Nakaso
• March 28, 2020

City officials on Tuesday signed a right of entry to allow state Department of Health workers to access the 26-room building at 909 Kaamahu Place. Read more

Iwilei building could become quarantine center for coronavirus-infected homeless

• By Dan Nakaso
• March 17, 2020

The city bought the building for $9 million to possibly relocate the Sand Island Treatment Center when the city expands its Sand Island wastewater treatment facility. Read more

IHS begins coronavirus screening of homeless in Waikiki

• By Dan Nakaso
• March 14, 2020

The Institute for Human Services began taking the temperatures of homeless clients in Waikiki this week and plans to share information about the novel coronavirus in homeless encamp­- ments across Oahu. Read more

Kokua Line: Next stop for homeless center to be decided by end of April

• March 4, 2020

Question: How many homeless people do they expect in the outreach center in Old Stadium Park (808ne.ws/33kline)? Where will it go after this? Read more

Honolulu’s homeless tent project is moving to Moiliili

• By Star-Advertiser Staff
• Feb. 28, 2020

The city is closing up its Homeless Outreach and Navigation for Unsheltered Persons (HONU) program in Waipahu and relocating to Old Stadium Park in Moiliili at noon Monday. Read more

Pu‘uhonua o Wai‘anae buys 20-acre land parcel

• By Star-Advertiser staff
• Feb. 22, 2020

Pu‘uhonua o Wai‘anae has reached a major milestone with a second $150,000 grant from the Nareit Hawaii Community Giving Initiative. Read more

Hawaii to continue paying half of airfare to help homeless return to families

• By Dan Nakaso
• Feb. 16, 2020

The state would continue to pay half the cost of airfare to send homeless people back to their families on the mainland, the Federated States of Micronesia and beyond, under a wide-ranging homeless services bill. Read more

‘Kauhale’ housing for homeless suffers setback

• By Dan Nakaso
• Feb. 5, 2020

Lt. Gov. Josh Green’s dream of a statewide system of “kauhale” tiny homes to provide permanent housing for Hawaii’s homeless suffered a setback Tuesday when two House committees voted to study the concept rather than move out a bill that would have provided $20 million for a one-year pilot program. Read more