Honolulu City Council pushes fines, jail for shopping cart violations
The Honolulu Police Department would be tasked with enforcing the proposed ordinance if it is approved in subsequent bill readings. Read more
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Hawaii ACLU files motion to stop Honolulu homeless sweeps
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii has filed for a preliminary injunction against homeless sweeps in Honolulu. Read more
Waianae Coast’s mobile health clinic unveiled today
With the new mobile clinic, WCCHC aims to increase access to quality health care for the vulnerable, particularly those facing complex forms of homelessness on the island’s West side — from Kapolei to Makua. Read more
ACLU lawsuit targets Honolulu’s homeless sweeps
The lawsuit names five homeless plaintiffs but also seeks to protect Oahu’s more than 2,300 estimated unsheltered homeless. Read more
ACLU seeks to ban Honolulu homeless enforcement
The lawsuit follows a victory this month in Washington by a sister ACLU organization that got Seattle’s homeless ordinances ruled unconstitutional. Read more
Honolulu triples homeless cleanup crew efforts
The city has tripled its workforce that clears homeless encampments across Oahu every day and night — Monday through Friday — with some cleanups on weekends. Read more
Gov. Green signs housing emergency proclamation
The goal is to get 12,000 stalled projects online as soon as possible and a total of 50,000 homes — most of them considered “affordable” — within five years. Read more
Medical respite kauhale proves a valuable resource
The “medical respite” kauhale called Pulama Ola takes in homeless people well enough to be discharged from a hospital but not healthy enough to live safely on the street, where even minor wounds can turn septic. Read more
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
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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
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
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