Eight regions covering 596.7 square miles. Hundreds of volunteers. One day to measure the scope of Oʻahu’s homeless crisis.
For more than two decades, the Point-In-Time Count has served as Hawaiʻi’s main benchmark for whether the state is making any progress on the issue.
But the census — which attempts to capture how many people were experiencing homelessness on a single day — is merely a snapshot. The bigger picture of what this crisis is costing our community is rarely seen…