Homelessness

Online applications will be accepted from 12:00 a.m. on May 15, 2014, through 11:59 p.m. on May 21, 2014....

In Honolulu, unofficial tent cities are now set up in strategic locations designed to pressure the tourism industry, the Chinatown community, the Korean community, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Honolulu Council debate over Housing First....

Residents identified homeless and/or homelessness as a priority for the City to address....

Topping off the irony, Rep Rhoads also introduced HB2577  which would ban indoor tobacco smoking in public housing....

Brower mentions “carts” ten times, and suggests his attacks were part of an effort to "create a better society."

In addition to repairing the cables, “no copper” and “fiber-optic cable” signs are being put in place to make it as clear as possible to potential thieves that there is nothing of value for them to steal....

... Hawaii Appleseed released a report entitled Reimagining Housing in Hawaii, detailing successful affordable housing models like microunits, ohana housing, modular housing, among others....

... 1,465 homeless unwilling to accept shelter in Honolulu ....

The total number of homeless clients served by the Shelter and Outreach Programs has dropped for the third consecutive year....

...over the past three fiscal years, the program has paid out $28 million more in handling fees than it has collected in container fees....

Approximately half of mass shootings are caused by individuals with untreated severe mental illness....

...more than 80 percent of participants transition from homelessness to housing within three to four months....

Hawaii is full-fledged Democrat and leftist, Democrat and worse.  And they're tired of 'em....

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

To pressure political decision-makers for more resources, SHARE has hosted mandatory camp-outs on council members’ lawns, at the mayor’s home and at the King County Administration Building....

Will LA vs Lavan have a direct impact on Honolulu's "stored property" ordinance?

The basic strategy, called Housing First, comes from a Harlem-based group, Pathways to Housing....

Each enforcement action costs the city about 15 thousand dollars.  Bill 7 will cut that expense in half ....

...what is the real track record of Seattle’s “four successful homeless camps”?  Hawai’i Free Press found some answers and they aren’t pretty.... 

"HUD evictees will be made into instant criminals...."

The Hawaii section of the petition points out a federal lawsuit filed in December 2012 alleging that the City and County of Honolulu violated the due process rights of "De-Occupy Honolulu"....

"...300 of the families receiving assistance will be affected...."

As part of the campaign, DCCA has launched www.HFIC.Hawaii.gov....

HIC is to conduct a study on designating safe facilities located at camping areas .... 

“We have emptied the nation's hospitals, gutted state and local mental health programs, and turned involuntary treatment into a debate point instead of using it as a viable option to prevent tragedy...."

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday morning to appoint Muslim Association of Hawaii President Hakim Ouansafi as HPHA Executive Director.

The occupiers were flown in from the mainland. This is the perception that everyone in Honolulu has .... 

Today’s Washington Post Style page offers up this beyond-satire account of Dylan Bozlee of Hilo, Hawaii, who ....

"...those doing the attacking will die...." -- Occupy Honolulu

Hawaii can’t figure out how to kick drug addicted homeless people out of the parks and sidewalks in order to force them into shelters where they can get help, but apparently induced sterilization is now an option.  Today’s SB Editorial, “Voluntary (sic) sterilization can serve good purpose”, reveals that an eugenics group has been quietly working in Honolulu.... 

The ACLU is threatening a lawsuit against the City of Honolulu after the City Council voted to ban sleeping on sidewalks.  Today's Star-Bulletin editorializes:

Councilman Charles Djou introduced the bill because of concerns about how the homeless sleeping on Waikiki sidewalks is affecting tourism. Djou maintains that refusing to allow the chronically homeless to sleep on sidewalks would "put the hammer on people getting the help they need."

Djou needs to cite a precedent where such tough compassion has actually worked.

The answer is embarrassingly simple: Los Angeles. 

This leads to an obvious question the Star-Bulletin editorialists must answer:

Where has your laissez-faire attitude towards homelessness ever produced anything but more homelessness?

...the final homeless transitional shelters to be developed under an emergency proclamation issued by Governor Lingle in 2006....