Homeless in Hawaii

[maud gonne]

While all the governmental and nonprofit agency solutions are best to "solve" or diminish the homeless problem, in the meantime...what we've been doing, without necessarily thinking of it as "helping the homeless," is letting in-between-homes type folks that we meet stay with us. After all, we have a big rambling structure with a good roof. We do try to set a departure deadline so that we don't get overwhelmed. In a tiny way I think we've helped several families. It all seems to start with picking up hitchhikers, as discussed in a different thread ("da thumb"). We've been ripped off twice in the last three months but I don't think it was our "houseguests." It may have been people they knew, however. This is a stumbling block.