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Homelessness in hawaii
- 1. Homelessness in Hawaii By Skye Mackintosh
- 2. In Hawaii homelessness is a real problem.
- 3. I did some research and found some statistics to shed more light on the subject.
- 4. I found 3 main problems as to why Hawaii has the highest rate of homelessness in the nation
- 5. 1. Cost of living is too high and minimum wage is too low
- 6. The minimum wage for Hawaii is $9.25 and in order to afford a 2 bedroom house one would need to make about $31.61 an hour as a single parent of 3 kids
- 7. 2. There are not enough empty beds
- 8. While there are shelters and programs to help the homeless, there are far fewer empty beds than are needed — about 550 on any given night on Oahu, where an estimated 4,900 of the 7,620 homeless people live, according to service providers.
- 9. 3. There is a problem in homeless shelters with Discrimination against the disabled
- 10. Disability discrimination cases in housing are on the rise, and some homeless shelters aren’t willing or able to serve people with severe physical disabilities.
Editor's Notes
- These are not my words. I got this info at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaiis-homeless-problem-reaches-crisis-level/ There are about 12,000 to 15,000 homeless people in total in the state of Hawaii and about 5,000 are in Honolulu alone.
- http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/local-news/surviving-minimum-wage “Living wage — the amount actually needed to meet basic needs — ranges from $10.37 for a single adult in Hawaii County and up to $37.95 for a single adult with three kids, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology living wage calculator.” These are not my words.
- http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-adna-hawaii-homeless-20151115-story.html
- These are not my words. I got this info from http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-adna-hawaii-homeless-20151115-story.html As well as some other interesting facts such as : “—The state needs 27,000 affordable rental units by 2020, but lawmakers set aside enough money for 800 units this year. Maintaining the existing public housing could cost $800 million over the next decade, according to state estimates.” And – “—Statewide, 10,000 people wait five years or more to get into state-run public housing”
- I got this info from http://www.civilbeat.org/2015/09/disabled-and-homeless-this-hawaii-woman-found-she-had-no-place-to-go/
- There has been many cases of disabled people being turned away from housing because they want them to be able to get up off of the ground by themselves. There has been regulations put in place where each shelter now has to have 4 people of their staff with training on helping the disabled.