Some council members want to set a clear legal policy for the administration to follow.

A psychiatrist set out to find a 33-year-old Hilo woman who battles homelessness and addiction after a failed medical intervention.

A 33-year-old woman with mental struggles disappeared after she was medevaced from Hilo to The Queen’s Medical Center. Then she ended up on the unfamiliar streets of Honolulu.

Drawn to Maui to surf decades ago, Rex Cole was among four homeless men who went missing during the devastating 2023 fire.

Residential Youth Services & Empowerment helps homeless youth get off the streets with a place to stay, programs and assistance to finish school or earn their GED.

The City Council hasn’t come up with funding yet for the program and research shows cameras alone may not be effective.

Proposed restrictions would discourage people from sheltering in public transit.

The 20 state-owned units were installed last year in the parking lot of the Hawaii Cedar Church in Kalihi. The kauhale currently shelters kūpuna and families.

The effort to help struggling students at the University of Hawaiʻi is led by volunteer faculty and staff. Other states allocate money to help college students alleviate hardships.

The uncomfortable truth is that Hawaiʻi likely has thousands more homeless people than the narrow definition used in the official count accounts for.