In 2016 the New York Times ran an article about the homeless crisis in Hawaii which at the time was the highest per capita in the US. of any state.
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Having peaked my interest in 2016 I decided to look back into the issue to see what Hawaii has done since then, if anything to remedy their large homeless population. What I found was this story on their local news station about a park being closed and kicking out all of the homeless people that lived there.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37474056/mother-waldron-park-closed-again-for-repairs-homeless-kicked-out
The homeless crisis in Hawaii is truly heartbreaking to witness, and from what I've learned it looks like the state is doing little to help these poor people. I did find some stories about new shelters being built, and a homeless village that they have planned, but it seems that they cannot get the homeless to stay in them. They are even considering paying the homeless to get them to stay in the shelters once they are done.
It is a pattern among Liberal controlled states that they always seem to have large homeless populations. According to the National coalition for homelessness among the main causes for homelessness is loss of home, poverty, lack of job opportunities, decline in public assistance, shortage of affordable housing, mental illness, and drug addiction.
Bearing that in mind it is not surprising to me that Liberal strongholds have large homeless populations. Their policies promote poverty, kill jobs, and force the cost of housing to increase. They also promote lawlessness, which invites drug addiction. Often in liberal control cities they have programs that provide free needles to drug addicts.
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