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Thursday, January 26, 2023 |
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Full Text: 2023 State of the Judiciary Address
By News Release @ 2:46 AM :: 2229 Views :: Homelessness, Judiciary, Drugs
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"We implement programs to address the root causes of recidivism . . . such as drug use and mental illness . . . and to respond to other urgent community needs. We embrace this expanded role.”
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 |
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City accepting resumes for Executive Director, Office of Housing and Homelessness
By News Release @ 3:13 AM :: 1955 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... HOU is responsible for coordinating and directing the development, preparation, and implementation of plans and programs relating to affordable housing and homelessness ....
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Monday, December 5, 2022 |
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Green: My Inauguration Unites State as One
By News Release @ 6:22 PM :: 2899 Views :: DHHL, Hawaii State Government, Homelessness
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... Governor Green recently announced the appointments of key cabinet and executive staff leadership roles, signaling the most expeditious assembling of a gubernatorial administration in the state’s history (behind a Carpenters Union chief of Staff) ....
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Saturday, November 19, 2022 |
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DLNR Sweeps 'til Na Pali Coast 'devoid of craziness and trash'
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 2851 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Homelessness
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... In October a team hauled out 820-pounds of rubbish in three helicopter sling loads ....
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Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
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Green announces plan to address homelessness
By News Release @ 8:52 PM :: 2487 Views :: Homelessness
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... kauhale communities are already thriving in Waianae and Waimanalo, with the ten more intended for Oahu ....
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Saturday, October 15, 2022 |
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DLNR Sweeps Sand Island Homeless Drug Addict Camp (again)
By News Release @ 2:29 AM :: 2138 Views :: Homelessness
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... the growing population of homeless people have reduced the desire for access and have made the area unsavory for paddlers, because of loose dogs, frequent fights, and other misconduct ....
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Thursday, October 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii’s all-mail voting system a barrier for unhoused, non-English speakers
By Center for Public Integrity @ 4:07 PM :: 2713 Views :: Homelessness, Office of Elections
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... without a permanent address, the homeless can’t receive a mailed ballot ....
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Saturday, July 23, 2022 |
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Hawaii: Pain in Paradise
By Selected News Articles @ 4:34 PM :: 2739 Views :: Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... There is no clearer example of left-wing policies turning paradise into a nightmare ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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How to increase housing and ease homelessness in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:26 PM :: 2193 Views :: Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... six major layers of housing regulation: the state Land Use Commission, county plans, community plans, county zoning, special management area permitting and the historic districts ....
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Monday, May 2, 2022 |
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Legislature Burns $1B on 'Affordable Housing'
By News Release @ 5:47 PM :: 3528 Views :: DHHL, Development, Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... Housing bills that will be sent to the Governor for his signature include ....
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Friday, April 8, 2022 |
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PIT Count: Chronic Homeless up 18% in Hawaii
By News Release @ 6:23 AM :: 2352 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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... 745 homeless individuals demonstrating chronicity. This represents an 18 percent increase ....
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 |
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State of the City: Blangiardi Announces Latest Scheme to Get Rail Money Withheld by Feds
By Video @ 7:23 PM :: 4671 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Rail, COVID-19
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"...We submitted a Recovery Plan to the FTA, proposing to amend the Full Funding Grant Agreement to the following scope: 18.75 miles/19 stations through Downtown, to the Civic Center Station, which is 1.25 miles and 2 stations short of Ala Moana Center...."
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022 |
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What does it take to convince four chronic homeless to get off streets?
By News Release @ 3:43 PM :: 2604 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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“These are the kinds of successes the Administration and Legislature envisioned when it passed $32 million in ‘Ohana Zone funds to address homelessness statewide.”
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Friday, March 4, 2022 |
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Tourists Evacuated: Drugged-out Homeless Zombies Torch Hotel After DLNR Cuts Security
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 3832 Views :: Homelessness, Tourism, Drugs
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"...An interim security contract at the property lapsed at the end of December 2021. DLNR continues to explore cost-effective options for further securing the property...." -- DLNR
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 |
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CARES Money Housed 787 Homeless on Oahu
By News Release @ 11:14 PM :: 2569 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, COVID-19
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... Rapid Rehousing provides short-term rental assistance and supportive services to assist people in obtaining housing quickly ....
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022 |
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Conspiracy to Defraud Honolulu Homeless Program Nets Federal Prison Sentences
By News Release @ 5:58 PM :: 3825 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Homelessness, Law Enforcement
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... Defendants Sentenced for Scheme to Defraud Local Housing Programs of Over $100,000 ....
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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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Bum Feeding Operation to Vacate Chinatown
By News Release @ 1:16 AM :: 2312 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... The City and County of Honolulu and the River of Life Mission have reached an agreement to relocate its public feeding operation from its current location in Chinatown to several new hubs on O‘ahu ....
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 |
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Bills would force landlords to accept Section 8 Tenants
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 PM :: 2964 Views :: Homelessness, Small Business
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... The Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness (HICH) is calling on the Legislature to make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants who receive rental assistance ....
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Sunday, January 30, 2022 |
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Hawaii Second Highest Homelessness Rate in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:51 AM :: 5246 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... In Hawaii, an estimated 6,458 people are experiencing homelessness - or about 45.6 for every 10,000 people, the second highest homeless rate among states ....
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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 |
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COVID Funds Buy Buildings for Non-Profits
By News Release @ 2:05 AM :: 2864 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, COVID-19
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... a small apartment complex for low to moderate income renters being managed by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement ....
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Monday, November 1, 2021 |
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VIDEO: DLNR Clears Homeless Camp from Coco Palms Area
By Video @ 10:08 PM :: 3048 Views :: Kauai County, Homelessness
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"...some of these folks have refused offers of shelter or transitional housing...."
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Saturday, October 23, 2021 |
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City to Merge DCS, OHH
By News Release @ 2:17 PM :: 2619 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... Acting Director Krucky will continue to work with his dedicated team of professionals in the Office of Housing and Homelessness while he is at DCS, with a design to eventually join the two organizations together to address community issues ....
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021 |
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Maui: 80 Homeless Meth Addicts Leave Behind 54 Junk Cars and 58 Tons of Garbage
By News Release @ 11:54 PM :: 6182 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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..."In recent weeks, our staff has reported individuals blocking the roadway entrance to the plant, starting verbal arguments and jumping on a truck in at least one instance in which police were called."...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 |
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Lucky Dude: Mistaken identity gets homeless man the forcible mental health treatment he needed--Now he lives on 10ac Farm in Vermont
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 3672 Views :: Homelessness
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... Learn how forcible mental health care got one very lucky Hawaii homeless moved off our streets and onto a 10 ac farm in Vermont ....
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 |
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41 Junk Cars Removed from Oceanfront Kahului Homeless Camp
By News Release @ 9:22 PM :: 2960 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness
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... Most vehicles tagged for removal had been filled with trash from the nearby homeless encampment. ...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021 |
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COVID Became Opportunity to Force 100s of Homeless back onto the Streets
By News Release @ 2:24 AM :: 2171 Views :: Homelessness
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... we can use an emergency to FORCE the homeless back on to the streets but we can't use an emergency to build SRO housing for the homeless and then FORCE them to use it. This is an artificailly created crisis ....
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 |
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UH Study: 58% of UH Students are Starving, 14% Live on Streets
By News Release @ 12:13 AM :: 3237 Views :: Higher Education, Homelessness
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... according to this study 105% of Hawaii's homeless are enrolled at UH ....
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Saturday, May 29, 2021 |
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Homelessness Audit: Most Recommendations Still 'In Process' Four Years Later
By News Release @ 1:27 AM :: 2881 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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"... a low level of confidence in city efforts to address homelessness ...."
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Thursday, May 27, 2021 |
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City accepts full allotment of 312 Emergency Housing Vouchers from HUD
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 2218 Views :: Homelessness
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"...We really need to orchestrate this because it will require landlords. I cannot underscore that enough," said Connie Mitchell....
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021 |
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A Model for Hawaii: Federal Judge Orders Los Angeles to Clear Skid Row
By Andrew Walden @ 5:42 AM :: 5738 Views :: Homelessness
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... Beds, Services, and the Obligation to Use Them. A legally enforceable mandate whereby the community provides beds and services to those ready, willing, and able to accept shelter. At the same time, living in public spaces is forbidden and laws are enforced. This is a balanced social contract ....
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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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Homeless HONU Shelter begins operation in Whitmore Village
By News Release @ 9:27 PM :: 3013 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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... Operation of HONU is done through a joint effort by the Honolulu Police Department, the City’s Department of Community Services, and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Homelessness. ...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Molotov Cocktails at Hawaii Supreme Court, Attorney General Office
By Video @ 2:09 AM :: 5064 Views :: Homelessness, Judiciary, Law Enforcement
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... Eric Stroeve, arrested for alleged arson of Supreme Court, had been arrested multiple times on Oahu--including for assault on HPD officers in Feb 2020--but not jailed because of COVID sanctions ordered by the very same Supreme Court he allegedly firebombed ....
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Monday, May 10, 2021 |
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Behavioral health dashboard: Homelessness and mental health in Hawaiʻi
By News Release @ 8:56 PM :: 3063 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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... explore statistics on inpatient stays and drug prescriptions, and review homelessness numbers and mental health emergency calls ....
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 |
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VIDEO: Squatters Take Over Uncle Billy's Hotel
By Video @ 1:10 AM :: 4680 Views :: Hawaii County , Homelessness, Tourism, Drugs
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... Akamai readers will remember this is exactly what happened to the old Hilo Hotel on Kinoole St during the 1990s depression ....
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Thursday, April 22, 2021 |
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America’s Future Is In Hawaii--A dispatch from the tropical dystopia.
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 3579 Views :: Homelessness, COVID-19
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... The future includes internal travel restrictions ....
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Friday, March 26, 2021 |
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VIDEO: DLNR Cleans up Homeless Drug Addicts' Mess in Lake Wilson
By Video @ 5:45 PM :: 3186 Views :: Homelessness
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... more mayhem from one of Oahu's biggest homeless camps ....
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Thursday, March 18, 2021 |
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HUD: Hawaii 2nd Highest Number Of Homeless Veterans
By Selected News Articles @ 10:37 PM :: 3359 Views :: Homelessness, Military
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... in Hawaii, 54 out of about 10,000 veterans were homeless ....
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Thursday, December 31, 2020 |
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River of Life to Leave Chinatown
By News Release @ 4:35 AM :: 4094 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Small Business, Tourism
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... will relocate to Iwilei homeless services zone ...
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Monday, December 28, 2020 |
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Homelessness: Hawaii Ranks #2 Per Capita
By Selected News Articles @ 5:35 PM :: 4113 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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... All 5 States with Worst Homeless Problems Governed by ‘Democrat Trifectas’ ....
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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Blue Christmas: 112 Homeless dead because we Couldn't FORCE them to accept Shelter
By News Release @ 3:44 AM :: 4044 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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... Soft on Homelessness is inhumane. The humane approach is to force them off the streets into shelter ....
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Saturday, December 12, 2020 |
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Shelter Refusing Drug Addict Camps Like Hazmat Sites: "Needles, human waste, and dead animals"
By News Release @ 2:05 AM :: 2628 Views :: Homelessness
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...Though they had been given notice last week, when clean-up teams arrived at a half dozen illegal camps on public lands yesterday, the occupants of three camps strung together seemed surprised they had to move....
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 |
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Tracked Down by FBI, Homeless Alaska Drug Addict Decides to Stay on Streets of Honolulu
By News Release @ 6:02 PM :: 3007 Views :: Homelessness
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... FBI and two police departments bow to orders from their lord and master, the homeless drug addict ....
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Saturday, November 7, 2020 |
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Sand Island: DLNR Clears out 42 Homeless Camps--Nobody Accepts Housing
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 2883 Views :: Homelessness
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...HDOT contractor engaged in the clean-up of illegal camps at Sand Island State Recreation Area report collecting 190.5 tons of trash in 3 days....
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 |
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DLNR Steps Up Efforts to Manage Homelessness Across Public Lands
By Selected News Articles @ 9:20 PM :: 4217 Views :: Environment, Homelessness, Land Use
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...“I don’t see any end in sight, really, because it just seems to have gotten worse"....
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020 |
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Governor Releases 'Intent to Veto' List
By News Release @ 4:02 AM :: 4986 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Second Amendment
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...Gov. David Ige has notified legislative leaders and key lawmakers of his Intent to Veto the following 6 measures....
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Friday, August 14, 2020 |
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Iwilei homeless shelter to be temporary isolation and quarantine site
By News Release @ 11:06 PM :: 3413 Views :: Homelessness, COVID-19
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...the postives are being kept inside and the negatives are kicked out....
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Friday, August 14, 2020 |
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ACLU Plan for Hawaii: Massive COVID-Infested Homeless Tent Cities Everywhere -- with no sweeps
By Andrew Walden @ 6:18 PM :: 4327 Views :: Homelessness, Justice Reinvestment, COVID-19
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...At 11am today, the Hawaii Supreme Court is hearing a motion from the State Public Defender’s office using COVD as an excuse to order another mass release of criminals from Hawaii’s prisons and jails....
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020 |
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Tenants Being Evicted Illegally
By News Release @ 4:45 AM :: 4055 Views :: Homelessness, Law Enforcement, COVID-19
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...The moratorium is currently in place through August 31, 2020....
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Sunday, July 26, 2020 |
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Attorney: Homeless Disenfranchised by all-mail voting system
By Selected News Articles @ 6:29 PM :: 4633 Views :: Maui County, Homelessness, Office of Elections
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...an individual may only obtain "general delivery" for 30 days in any 12 month period. This forces such registered voters to choose between having a ballot delivered for the primary or for the general election, but not both....
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