No Room in Paradise

Streaming video - 2017

With some of the most expensive housing in America and the nation’s worst homeless crisis, the paradise of Hawaii comes with a price. Filmmakers Anthony Aalto and Mike Hinchey spent two years following two single mothers and their kids from a homeless encampment in the heart of Honolulu to subsidized apartments. Along the way they befriend and interview homeless individuals with mental problems, drug addicts, veterans, Micronesian immigrants, native Hawaiians, down-on-their-luck transplants from the mainland... each has a story to tell. As they explain in their own words how they became homeless, they break down barriers of incomprehension and distrust.