While the Act 57 program ended in August 2022, Hawaiʻi Appleseed will be advocating for a permanent rental relief program that includes mediation to stabilize affordable housing.

Evictions have a lengthy legal process, and tenants always have an option to go to mediation. Instead, people think that there is no choice but to move out.

LEJ’s report, based on extensive review of court filings, court minutes, pleadings filed in individual cases, HPD statistics and media reports, concluded that government officials and the media misinformed the public.

The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes.

Governor Ige is waiting to decide whether or not to extend the moratorium and is still reviewing the mediation bill before deciding whether to sign it.

Studies have shown that homeless students can be set back by as much as eight months each time they change schools, said Victor Geminiani, executive director of Lawyers for Equal Justice.

The state will assist families to ensure they attend school.

The state has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed last year that alleged homeless children around the state are being denied equal access to public education.

A federal judge has given the state Department of Education until April 30 to revise its enrollment forms and computer registration programs to improve how it identifies, tracks and transports homeless students as required under federal law.

Homeless families sue the DOE for failing to educate their children in accordance a with federal law.

Lawyers for Equal Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi yesterday went to court seeking an order that would immediately stop the state from enforcing laws and policies they claim make it hard for transient students to find stability in their schooling.

A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of hundreds of homeless K-12 students to ensure they have the right to continue attending the school they were in before their families lost their homes.

Lawyers for Equal Justice & the ACLU of Hawaiʻi have filed a lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of homeless K-12 students to ensure their continued access to education, as protected by federal law.

The state has failed so badly at helping homeless children get to and from public schools that federal courts should intervene in the situation, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU and two other parties.