Gwen, 
I, we, hear your frustration. We are all frustrated too. Event the homeless are frustrated for lack of REAL options they have available. That "resist going to the shelters" is propaganda, to get you, the average person, on the governments side in a game of "us against them." 
There are not enough spaces in the shelters to fit everyone, as steeler says, there are 15,000 homeless a year. and roughly 5,000 bed spaces STATE wide. Do the math !
Name us someplace that a person getting $1,000 - $1,500 a month can live in Hawaii ? What kind of rentals are available for that ? Do they get to eat ? Or is that why the food bank fed 278,000 people last year ?
Many seniors are on low incomes. Do we evict all of the senior citizens and force them to move to the mainland ? The DOE says there are 4,000 homeless children enrolled in school. Do we force all of those kids to move to foster homes on the mainland ?