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[MODEL] Research Log #1 - Solutionary Project 2020

Date: Feb. 9, 2020
Name: Paige Turner
Essential Question: Should Hawaii institute the death penalty?

Three Points to Prove: #1: The death penalty is not a deterrent of crime.
#2: The death penalty is inhumane.
#3: The death penalty is not cost effective.

Point that this Source Proves: # 1: The death penalty is not a deterrent of crime.

Excerpts (These should provide insight into the Point to Prove):

Early in the article, Carlisle explained in simple terms, “When the smaller crimes go down--the quality of life crimes--
then the murder rate goes down.”

Carlisle reported that in Hawaii we don’t have “the death penalty, but we have one of the lowest murder rates in the
country.” He continued, “The F.B.I. statistics for 1998 showed Hawaii’s homicide rate was the fifth lowest.”

Changing voters’ minds will not be easy: “Culture and religion play a role, as well as political vagaries in each state.”

Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):

This website provides arguments against capital punishment. The author suggests the death penalty is not a
deterrent of crime. Surprisingly, the homicide rates of several different states that do not have the death
penalty are actually lower than those with the death penalty. Hawaii is one of these states. There are quotes from judges,
governors, and the prosecuting attorney from Hawaii, Peter Carlisle. Carlisle makes a reference to the
Bryan Uyesugi case – where the defendant shot seven of his co-workers at the Xerox copy machine company.
There is specific evidence against the death penalty that indicates it is not a deterrent of crime. For example, even
without the death penalty, Hawaii has the fifth lowest homicide rate in the nation. This proves, at least to some degree,
that a state without the death penalty can thrive as a one of the safest states in the nation. Along these same lines of
reasoning, homicide rates in the states that do have the death penalty are still high, such as Texas and California. This
indicates that the death penalty doesn’t necessarily deter crime. To ground this in more specific data, the NY Times found
that during the last twenty years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48% to 101% higher than
states without the death penalty!
Culture, religion, politics, and the overall ideologies that dominate a community influence whether the death
penalty will remain law. In more conservative states, the death penalty is more prevalent. Interestingly, at Michigan’s
constitutional convention in the 1960s, some argued that those who were executed were predominantly poor and of racial
minorities. If valid, this is concerning as it indicates corruption in the system (a system that can end life). If the death
penalty remains, more efforts must be taken to ensure the quality and fairness of the justice system through which they
will be punished.

Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Bonner, Raymond and Ford Fessenden. “States with No Death Penalty Share Lower Homicide Rates.” The New York
Times. The New York Times. 22 September 2000. Web. 4 Jan 2004.

This is a reputable and reliable article because it was published in The New York Times Magazine and it only hires the
nation’s most highly trained and experienced writers.

Research Log #1 - Solutionary Project 2020

Date: 2/8/20
Name: Simone Hong
Essential Question: what are the greatest needs for homeless in Hawaii?

Three Points to Prove: #1: Low cost housing
#2: Health care

Point that this Source Proves: #1: Cost of living

Kurisu plans to change the wasteland into accommodations, having “vegetable gardens and fruit trees, public restrooms
and showers, and a plethora of social services.”
Savio acknowledges that his solution, “even if it was wildly successful, it might take generation before it impacted the
chronic shortage of affordable housing; it doesn’t address the current shortage.”
Hollier tells us that although we could solve this if there is enough time, “time, after all, is money.”
Even though Kurisu’s Kakauiki strategy was a good plan, Stanford Carr comments that “…not everybody has as much
money as him.”


This article, written by Dennis Hollier, gives us a solution to prevent Hawaii’s Housing Crisis. It provides
information about the answer to the problem thoroughly, advocates trying to fix the problem, and the pros and cons about
each solution. There are comments from other advocates that are trying to voice their ideas to make more affordable
housings. Hawaii has one of the highest homeless rates per capita in the nation. One main reason of this crisis is because
of the cost of living. Even the author states that to solve homelessness, we need to build lots more affordable housing;
however, Hawaii has failed to do that for decades.
Kurisu’s strategy to solve the problem was an intelligent plan, however there are consequences as well. As stated
as one of the main causes of homeless, money is an issue. The cost of living in Hawaii is very expensive. In the eyes of
wealthy billionaire, it may just look like a price they could afford but for those who have little or no money at all (mainly
towards the homeless) it’s an impossible price they can’t afford. Even Savio, another advocate preventing the cost of
living problem, replies on Kurisu’s strategy saying it may take generation or more before the solution is partially done.
Time is money and the longer the time, the more the price of land and renting increases. Stanford Carr, too, replies to
Kurisu’s strategy as a smart one, but an expensive one as well.
There are many homeless people who would prefer to live in a cleaner place, away from the streets, but any effort
they make for themselves or others failed. Even if we solve the low-cost housing problem, there are more causes of
homelessness so it will be a hard journey for the advocates. However, if attempted efforts are performed, it may help our
state overcome this incident with ease.
Hollier, Dennis. “Yes, We Can Solve Hawaii's Housing Crisis.” Hawaii Business Magazine, 27 Apr. 2018,
Web. 5 Feb 2020

This is a reputable and reliable article because the article has interview responses and other sources to back up the
article’s information and date.


Date: 2/12/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care

Point that this Source Proves: #2: Health care


Lloyd Pendleton aided a chronically ill unsheltered, Keta, get an apartment at Utah; however, “the first night in her
apartment, she put her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor.”
Lloyd acknowledges that “homelessness is a continuing challenge for many cities throughout our country.”
He states that within the homeless categories, chronic homelessness “costs a lot.”
“you can’t end homelessness,” was Lloyd’s first thought after reading the early plans of ending chronic homelessness
Out of the chronic unsheltered that moved into housing, “85 percent were still housed after 12 months.”
He finally realizes that “the clean needles and condoms and low-barrier housing was a means to begin to develop a
relationship of trust.”
Instead of choosing a fairly high-functioning homeless individual, Lloyd and his group “selected 17 of the most
challenging, difficult, chronically homeless people [they] could find, because [they] knew [they] would learn the most
from them.”
In this TED Talk, Lloyd Pendleton shared his experience and story about his thoughts about homelessness in
Utah. Out of the homeless population, chronic homelessness takes about 15%, the smallest percentage category, but it still
costs a lot. In some communities, they can cost 20,000 to 45,000 dollars a year for just one individual. To define chronic
homelessness, it’s an unaccompanied adult who has been continuously homeless for a year or more or more than four
times homeless in three years that totals 365 days (Lloyd Pendleton, TED Talk).
As a young child, he looked at the unsheltered individuals as lazy bums who wouldn’t get a job. He believed that
helping them would do no good and waste lots of time and money. When Lloyd received the early plans of the 10-year-
plan given by the federal government to end chronic homelessness, he stated that “this is unrealistic. You can’t end
homelessness.” (Pendleton). He thinks that since homelessness had been an issue for several years with government help,
he still thought it was impossible for something this big of an issue to be prevented in a short period of time.
As he eventually starts to realize how serious the crisis really is at Utah and put his full effort to try make a
difference. There were some consequences with the plan, but Lloyd solved all the problems. One example would be his
pilot test with putting chronical homeless individuals live in a home. He chose the hardest, most difficult, people so that
him and the housing company would learn the most from them. All eleven were success and still is living in homes safely
and peacefully.
Medical Health is an expensive problem within the homeless crisis, but with the proper help and approach, it may
not be an impossible thing to solve.

Pendleton, Lloyd. “Transcript of ‘The Housing First Approach to Homelessness.’” TED, 2016,

www.ted.com/talks/lloyd_pendleton_the_housing_first_approach_to_homelessness/transcript#t-521257. Accessed
12 February 2020
This is a reputable and reliable article because the speaker of the video is talking from his own experiences, relating his
childhood and nowadays as an example. And of course, it’s from TED Talks.


Date: 2/14/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care

Point that this Source Proves: #1 Low cost housing & #2 Health care

Excerpts (These should provide insight into the Point to Prove): NEED EMBEDED QUOTES

From reports, it is stated that, “One government official estimated recently that there could be 600 three-quarter
houses in Brooklyn alone.”
“Virtually unnoticed and effectively unregulated, a system of housing known as “three-quarter” homes profits off
the poor and desperate in New York City.”
Victims such as “Mr. Bush was one of about 120 people who lived at any one time in Mr. Baumblit’s biggest
operation…some were addicts. Others were simply homeless, people who did not need treatment but who wanted
to avoid the shelter system. Some had serious mental illness.”
Three-quarter houses, “are a product of the murky world of outpatient substance abuse treatment for the poor.”
“Three-quarter houses are, in my opinion, the frying pan for people who are in the fire,” says JoAnne Page,
president of the Fortune society.
Over the past years for Mr. Bush, he said “…I fight and I fight and I fight and I lose…And Mr. Yury takes
advantage of it. This whole three-quarter system does. It’s made for us to fail.””


The three-quarter housing is common towards the homelessness in New York City. Three quarter homes are
places to live seen as somewhere between regulated halfway houses and actual houses. Many homeless individuals fight
for these limited spaces since they wanted to avoid the streets and homeless shelters at all cost. Many of these even
became drug dens. To those home operators, the city’s Human Resources Adminstration pays $215 monthly rent to take
of their tenant. But greedy investors such as Mr. Baumblit uses that as an advantage and not even the government know
about it. The system dooms tenants to a perpetual cycle of treatment and relapse, of shuttling between programs and three-
quarter houses. Mr. Baumbilt used his tenants to do their own chores and gave little allowances to them, even threatening
them they would get evicted if they didn’t listen to him.
The treatment Yury gave to the homeless was just cruel. He could have helped them and showed a generous side
of him, but his greed and cruelty took over him. Nonetheless, some residents say Mr. Baumblit was their overseer,
determined whether they had a home and helped. Since Mr. Baumblit provided them housing, most tenants felt the need to
act well in order for Mr. Baumblit to receive more money from the government.
Some stories that deals with homelessness is not known to the outside world. This is a great example why short
stories about these kinds of incidents and events could help spread awareness to the public and help prevent homelessness.

Barker, Kim. “A Choice for Recovering Addicts: Relapse or Homelessness.” The New York Times, The New York Times,
30 May 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/nyregion/three-quarter-housing-a-choice-for-recovering-addicts-or-
homelessness.html. Accessed 14 February 2020.

This is a reputable and reliable article because this was an article written from the New York Time, a legit news
reporting company. They written detail description as well, making me more convinced this is reliable


Date: 2/14/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care

Point that this Source Proves: # low cost housing


After a good 43 years, Michael says “I am so happy that I met so many people around here.”
Michael wishes for us to be happy and says “Come on, we gotta make it a life, it’s time to smile. Everybody should
smile.”
Even though few homeless individuals have nowhere to sleep, “cops keep chasing us off wherever we go.”
People who “don’t have a job, that don’t work, get housing” before Michael can, even though he was been
working.
Michael encourages us to “keep a job, if you have family, go to them,” and most important “don’t burn it.”

All homeless individuals have a story to tell. Some might have lost a loved one or kicked out of their homes.
Michael, who has suffered both family tragedy and cancer living on the streets of Traverse City, was interviewed about
his homeless status. Michael lost many of his loved ones, including his five-year-old son, his fiancé, his brother, etc. But
even though he experienced hardships, he still is happy and glad about the tiny things that happened in his life. As he
states, forty-three years of a good run, he was extremely grateful for all who helped him and wished everyone to smile.
I disliked the way the city Michael is living at is treating homeless individuals. They increase all their prices since
Traverse City was a tourist city, however that made poverty increase as well. Stories like Michael needs to be heard
around the world. We need to inform their hardships and spread awareness to our future generation and to our
government. The government knows what’s happening but isn’t doing as much as they could have to help the crisis
preventable.
We need to protect individuals like Michael and give them another chance in life. Even when Michael suffered
from deaths of loved ones and stage four cancer, he still is smiling and not giving up. Low cost housing is something
necessary for him and others.

Invisible People. Homeless Man Shares Heartbreaking Story of Family Tragedy and Cancer. 2018,
April 30. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5djHKXkc6E. 27 February 2020

This is a reputable and reliable video because it was an interview with a homeless person without any editing. Personal
stories about themselves are most likely true stories.


Date: 3/5/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care

Point that this Source Proves: #1 Low cost housing & #2 Health care


As stated from the United States Department of Heal and Human Services, “about a quarter to a third of the homeless
have a serious mental illness – usually schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or severe depression….”
“Poor family support, a history of lawbreaking, and especially alcohol or drug addiction are major factors,” to why people
become homeless.
There are three housing choices for mentally ill homeless: traditional housing; “a group home in which patients learn the
skills they need to live independently, with nonprofessional staff on-site 24 hours a day.”, supportive housing; “a number
of rental apartments in one location with 24-hour crisis support on-site.”, and finally supported housing; “usually
individual apartments not all in one location, provides more flexible 24-hour off-site support and crisis services.”


As one problem lead to another, it seems to be impossible to fix all problems in a short amount of time. The peer-
reviewed journal states lots of statistics and facts, focuses on mentally ill individuals who are wandering around the
streets. Harvard Mental Health Letter also states that housing cannot be the solution for all problems chronically homeless
have. But every method many people have thought of is well planned and should be used everywhere. Methods such as
landlords, group, or supportive homes refusing to rent drug addict homeless individuals could help lower the mentally ill
homeless population.
This saddens me that even though this problem is well-known nationally, we still can’t find a quicker solution for
all homeless individuals. However, if we continue to commit to our theories on how to end homelessness, we will
eventually slow down the homeless population rate in the coming years.
“The Homeless Mentally Ill.” Harvard Mental Health Letter, vol. 21, no. 11, May 2005, pp. 4–7. EBSCOhost,
search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,cpid&custid=s4800244&db=a9h&AN=16794630&site=ehost-live.
This is a reputable and reliable article because this is a peer-reviewed scholarly research paper written by Harvard and
revised from other experts and professionals


Date: 3/18/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care
Point that this Source Proves: #1 Low cost housing


Reverend Eric said, “up to twenty percent of students in California community colleges are homeless.”

Reverend continued explaining that although students attend prestigious schools such as UCLA or USC,
“they have enough to pay their tuition but not enough to pay for a place to stay.”
A student who lives in the Bruin shelter says that “[it] is very meaningful to be able to contribute and like
make an impact by running something as powerful as a shelter.”

Even though homelessness is more commonly caused by financial issues post-college, there are many students
who attend school that struggle with payment for rent. The Bruin shelter is a great help for those who attend a prestigious
well-educated college who doesn’t have enough money to pay for a place to stay.
I think this is a very smart idea and this could lower the homeless rate nationally if all colleges in the United
States followed this solution. Like Reverend said during the interview, one of them could save for your life as a doctor or
be your attorney. All college students need a chance to show the world what they can do and they could impact the world
in the future if not homeless.
Homeless College Students Find Refuge at California Shelter. (2019, June 7).
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-mtawKuYM

This is a reputable and reliable article because it is from a news station VOA and has personally interviewed the people
living and working at the Briuns shelter.


Date: 3/18/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care
#3: Food and service

Point that this Source Proves: #3 food and service

To give us a summary of their organization, Marielle Terbio says “our organization distributes about 12 million pounds of
food every year.”
When asks what their first mission was for the organization, it was “to provide foods to family who need it.”
After years of experiencing helping people and serving them, Terbio thought that “it would be simple solution [at the
beginning] … provide food would be enough but it really isn’t.”

My partner and I decided to interview a member from the Hawaiian Food Bank, Marielle Terbio. They assist not
only to homeless unsheltered but also to low income family. They serve food for the hungry weekly and takes care of
them. As we asked her questions through a phone call, she explained her answer thoroughly and clearly.
She explained her mission and her accomplishments during the interview. One thing that stood out for me was
when she thought this problem would be easy to solve. She stated that she thought providing food would be enough, but it
really wasn’t. This also related with me cause I also had the same thought. This is why I wanted to raise awareness about
my topic to the public and convince them to bring their attention in helping the homeless instead of ignoring them.

Marielle Terbio, Hawaiian Food Bank

This is a reputable and reliable article because it is directly from the source and from the person who had experience
helping the homeless

Date: 3/27/20
Name: Simone Hong

#2: Health care
#3: Food and service

Point that this Source Proves: #1 low cost housing

The HONU Project, an idea thought by Captain Mike Lambert, “was meant to be temporary and easily transportable.”
The goal of this HONU Project was to “place 300 persons over a 12-month period.”
Pam Witty Oakland, Director of the City Department of Community Services, supports the HONU idea and says she “will
continue to monitor HONU guests within HMIS to determine whether they are able to sustain shelter and housing.”

After reading this article, I was interested in Captain Mike Lambert’s idea of the HONU Project and researched
some more. This idea was discredited by many councilmen and was very expensive. One structure for the housing cost
around $35,000. In addition, there is a $5 million for staffing, security, supplies and other around-the-clock costs for 36
months. Even though the project was viewed as a failed attempt, Captain Mike Lambert changed all of the councilmen’s
minds. Using his police support, Lambert helped the homeless by giving an available option for the unsheltered.
I also did not think it would be a working plan due to the cost, but after knowing about Captain Lambert’s
persistence and commitment to his idea, I came to realize the benefits this could have in the state of Hawaii. We should
give second chances to those who would want it and should respect the rejection of joining a shelter but still support them
no matter what. I like his idea and is planning to interview him later on for my solutionary project.

Staff, S. (2020, February 29). Honolulu’s homeless tent project is moving to Moiliili. Honolulu Star-
Advertiser. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/02/28/hawaii-news/honolulus-homeless-tent-project-is-moving-
to-moiliili/
This is a reputable and reliable article because it is written by the Honolulu Star Advertiser and got direct quotes from
Captain Mike Lambert and the Director of the City Department of Community Services, Pam Witty Oakland.

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Pendleton, Lloyd. “Transcript of ‘The Housing First Approach to Homelessness.’” TED, 2016,

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