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

Nearly four years ago, the Hawaiʻi County Council tackled the local homeless population problem in a big way, earmarking the first funding of what would become $33 million. The results have been ...

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 ...

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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 ...