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Homelessness in Hawaii on the Rise

by Jacob Shafer

November 19, 2009

$8,000

Top per-night price for a penthouse suite at the Trump International Hotel Waikiki Beach Walk, which opened on Oahu this week

36 percent

Increase in the number of people served by Hawaii’s emergency and transitional homeless shelter programs between 2005 and 2009

$750,000

Amount by which a judge reduced the bail—from $1 million to $250,000—of a pregnant Kula woman accused of possessing more than 130 pounds of processed marijuana

30

Number of Native Hawaiian skulls returned to Hawaii by Harvard University and a museum in Sweden; the skulls will be ceremoniously reburied on their islands of origin



Sources: University of Hawaii Center on the Family’s 2009 homeless service utilization report, Honolulu Advertiser, Pacific Business News, The Maui News