Report: Maui Needs A Plan If It Actually Wants To End Homelessness … If everyone living on Maui’s streets sought shelter at the same time, there simply wouldn’t be enough space to accommodate them.
A new report has found that even though Maui County and the nonprofits it funds to provide social services have for years wanted to end homelessness, no one has a clear plan for how to do that.
Maui’s Cost of Government Commission, a nine-member group tasked with looking for ways to make the county government more effective, recently released a 559-page report looking at ways Maui could end homelessness and ensure that anyone who loses their housing can get into a shelter.
Starting in the summer of 2020, several of the group’s members spent months reviewing hours of government meetings and interviewing county, nonprofit and police officials. Among their key findings: despite sharing a common goal that one day, no Maui residents will have to live on the street, there’s “persistent disagreement” among the organizations working to help them, and no one has a comprehensive plan on how to do that work either.
