01-11-2007, 09:46 AM
"Hawaii's Housing Boom Takes a Toll on the Homeless" Wall Street Journal, Thursday, January 11, 2007
By Rafael Gerena-Morales
Word Count: 1,704
WAIANAE, Hawaii -- Rising before dawn, Patrick Wong walks 45 minutes to his drugstore job in Kapolei, a suburban town 20 miles west of Honolulu, where he stocks shelves starting at 7 a.m. The post pays $8.25 an hour and offers health insurance for Mr. Wong, his wife and partially deaf toddler.
But Mr. Wong, 33 years old, and his family can't afford a place to live. Five months ago they left his mother's home, where he was paying $600 a month in rent. Faced with the steepest rents of any state and scant available public housing, they were forced ...
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By Rafael Gerena-Morales
Word Count: 1,704
WAIANAE, Hawaii -- Rising before dawn, Patrick Wong walks 45 minutes to his drugstore job in Kapolei, a suburban town 20 miles west of Honolulu, where he stocks shelves starting at 7 a.m. The post pays $8.25 an hour and offers health insurance for Mr. Wong, his wife and partially deaf toddler.
But Mr. Wong, 33 years old, and his family can't afford a place to live. Five months ago they left his mother's home, where he was paying $600 a month in rent. Faced with the steepest rents of any state and scant available public housing, they were forced ...
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