A neighborhood in Hawaii’s capital city has been plagued by a sprawling waterfront homeless shanty town that includes a makeshift houseboat used to avoid encampment sweeps. The two-story floating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hawaii is conducting its first point-in-time count since 2024, and volunteers are fanning out across the state to gauge the ...

Hawaii County Council has advanced a $6 million package of homelessness and housing grants out of committee, but not without sharply criticizing local serv­ice providers for what members described as ...

The homeless in Hawaii now have the beginnings of a place to stay as they transition out of homelessness. KITV reports the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands dedicated new housing Monday for the ...

The state, city and outreach teams from the Institute for Human Services continue to try to connect to a growing homeless ...

The Hawaii County Council on Feb. 4 voted 8-0 to approve a resolution requesting the county auditor conduct a performance audit of the Office of Housing and Community Development’s Homeless and ...

State Representative Rida Cabanilla says she wants to send the homeless back home. She plans to ask fellow lawmakers for $100,000 for the proposal. A recent University of Hawaii survey found nearly 20 ...

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A deepening clash between state lawmakers, community providers and the state Department of Health is putting renewed scrutiny on how Hawaii handles defendants with serious mental illness — and whether ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On Monday, Jan. 26, hundreds of trained volunteers will be out in Oahu communities surveying individuals experiencing homelessness. It’s part of the U.S. Department of ...