Just a handful of the 50 people displaced after the partial collapse of a home in Kalihi nine days ago were able to find new rentals by yesterday afternoon, when the Red Cross closed a shelter it had set up in the wake of the emergency.

The rest went to homeless shelters or moved in with family and friends, Red Cross workers said yesterday.

Joanne Clay, spokeswoman for the tenants, said many of the people who lived in the Gulick Avenue property lost everything, from clothes and electronics to personal documents, such as ID cards and birth certificates.

Now, the tenants are struggling to put their lives back together.

"They're very frustrated," she said. "Some of them had just paid their rent."

The Red Cross shelter at Kalihi Valley District Park had been providing meals and beds to between 20 and 25 people daily since the Gulick Avenue home partially collapsed.

Those still at the shelter yesterday appeared frustrated and worried. They declined to speak to reporters.

Clay, who lived in the garage of the Gulick Avenue residence with her husband and four teenagers, said she is one of the lucky ones.

After an exhaustive search, Clay was able to find a two-bedroom apartment in Kalihi for her family. Relatives helped Clay cover the deposit and first month's rent for the unit, which costs $1,000 a month.

"It was very hard to find," Clay said yesterday afternoon, as she waited for the keys to her new home. "I had a lot of sleepless nights."

The home at 1732 Gulick Ave. partially collapsed Oct. 26, displacing 50 people who shared two bathrooms and one stove in the residence and slept largely in makeshift additions built with poles, plywood and tarps.

Police yesterday said a resident who had been believed missing following the collapse, Reno Dawson, 42, has been located and is safe.

Neighbors had complained to the city for years about the structure's condition, and the Honolulu Fire Department and state Health Department had also raised concerns.

After the collapse, the city officially deemed the four-bedroom home unsafe.

Inspectors posted "Notice of Unsafe Building" signs to keep people out — an "extraordinary measure," a city spokesman has said, that has only been taken about five times in the past 25 years.

Now, the city is moving to demolish the home and recoup the costs.

Meanwhile, a lawyer for tenants of the home said he is pursuing civil action against Daniel Cunningham, the man who managed the house on Gulick Avenue and allegedly injected some of his renters with a substance he said could cure ailments and prolong life.

Tenants have said they felt pressured to take the injections or face eviction or rent increases.

Police are investigating the allegations, but have so far not filed any charges.

"It's quite a complicated case," said Michelle Yu, police spokeswoman.

Cunningham could face criminal charges of assault or administering medicine without a license.

Chris Dias, attorney for most of the tenants, said those who lived in the home will also likely pursue civil action against Cunningham for administering the injections and for his part in the maintenance of the property, where tenants were paying between $250 and $750 a month for small rooms.

It's still unclear what substance Cunningham was injecting into the tenants.

But several of those who received the treatments have complained of side effects.

Richard Sumiye, 68, said he lost much of his eyesight after getting injections in his eye.

Another tenant, Jesse Taylor, said he has had dizzy spells and trouble breathing.

Dr. Scott Lozanoff, chairman of the Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology department at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, said someone needs to figure out what the injections consisted of so the tenants can consult with their doctors and "try to figure out some course of action."

He said the case of the injections is not only strange, but potentially dangerous.

Human trials of medications are done after years of study and under strict supervision, he said.

In this case, tenants were not monitored and had no idea what treatment they were receiving.

Cunningham, 56, who maintains the injections were voluntary, said the treatment was part of a "stem cell" therapy that he is also on.

Cunningham has a long history of touting such injections dating back to at least 1996, when he lost his chiropractor's license after patients alleged he injected them with a substance he said would take away aches and pains.

In court filings, Cunningham said the rule barring chiropractors from using needles and injection treatments was a sign of a "paternalistic government with Socialist/Babylonian objectives." He said the rule further "refuses the doctor his various resources and means of curing his patient."

At the time, Cunningham said he was injecting patients with human growth hormone.

Cunningham, a mayoral candidate in the September primary election, said he has been injecting himself with the substance he used on his tenants for 20 years. In an interview last week, Cunningham said he has been using the injections to treat his hands, which are gnarled and disfigured.

He said the disfigurement happened when he was 20 and "abducted by the CIA."

Those who know Cunningham said his fingers have been getting progressively worse.

Cunningham wears socks over his hands to hide them.

He took the socks off during an interview last week to reveal on one of his hands a quarter-sized open wound that was black and oozing fluid.

Edward Sample, 78, was one of Cunningham's chiropractic patients in the 1990s and said he got injections from him for aches and pains. Sample said the injections worked.

But he added that Cunningham, whose offices used to be in Kailua, appears to be suffering from a mental disorder that may have worsened.

Sample, who kept in touch with Cunningham up until recently, said Cunningham once told him the illegal structures he was building on the Gulick Avenue property were for a hospital he wanted to open.