By Allyson Blair
Hawaii News Now
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -After nearly 2 decades of bouncing between his friends couches and living on the street, Navy veteran Robert Henry has a home.
“I just recently this last Friday got my own place to live at under the HUD/VASH program,” said Henry.
The Kailua High School grad said his problems began when he moved to the mainland to take care of his mother. He says he struggled with alcoholism. After his mother died, Henry moved back to Hawaii but never could get reestablished becoming one of an estimated 700 homeless vets on Oahu.
Since the start of the year, that number’s dropped dramatically.
“We know that we have close to 105 unsheltered veteran homeless right now that we have on a list that we really want to get into housing right away,” said Mayor’s Office of Housing Executive Director Jun Yang.
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