Governor Josh Green, M.D. hosted a blessing for the first kauhale site built under his Administration. The medical respite kauhale, named Pūlama Ola, is housed in the backyard of the Governor’s residence on the grounds of the Department of Health parking lot. This community housing project will serve inpatient and emergency room patients discharged from urban Honolulu hospitals who would otherwise exit medical care into homelessness.
With Hawaii in need of 50,000 housing units, Green said he will not subvert environmental rules, but plans to “cut red tape and redundancy that goes on in the construction areas between the county and the state.”