Mahalo Representative Ward!  Excellent article.

Housing is one of the social determinants of health.  When there is a group that is disproportionately homeless, along with other social determinants of health:  Lack of education (<Bachelor's degree), low paying jobs...you will have poor health (as you have described).

Hawaii is one of the healthiest states because of  longevity and early adoption of health insurance requirements (pre-Obama).  Kanaka maoli do not share the "good health" that other populations in our state have.

Many in our state legislature did not like the Judiciary Branch of government reminding them of their constitutional obligation to fund DHHL.  It was probably "ego busting" and of course the usual excuse of "too expensive".   Some of the fixes are in the legislature's purview... rent control, outside development and foreign buyouts of private property (city issue, too), GET.  Perhaps then the state can afford to fix an important part of homelessness.