Hawaii’s financially struggling older adults may get a new support system intended to keep them out of the homelessness crisis. This support, via Senate Bill 898 SD2 HD1, would expand the Hawaii Public Housing Authority’s Rent Supplement Program, which subsidizes monthly rent for poor families. The new part of this program, said Sen. Sharon Moriwaki, would temporarily extend this funding to people who are 62 or older and are “homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless.”
