Caldwell Visits DC, Talks Homelessness

The Honolulu mayor met with federal officials and talked about Hawaii’s houseless Micronesians.

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Hawaii News Now has this report on Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s trip to the nation’s capital this week.

One of the takeaways is that the federal government hopes to help the city “convene a group of community leaders to help tackle homelessness among new arrivals” from the three Compact of Free Association nations.

Caldwell said that Esther Kiaaina, who heads the Office of Insular Affairs, “is working on creating a strategic group of leaders to ensure better housing opportunities for families who travel to Hawaii from Micronesia.”

Caldwell also went to the White House for a U.S. Conference of Mayors.

And, he reportedly met the Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness “to further discuss the homeless issue as it applies to Oahu.”

According to the mayor’s Twitter account, he left town early Friday ahead of the arrival of a so-called 100-year winter storm that has already shuttered federal offices in Washington, D.C.

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