Hawaii Island Group Distributes $7.5M in Virus Housing Aid

by Mari Ebersole | Nov 23, 2020 | Affordable Housing, Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, Families, In the News

View Content Direct from Source  Big Rapid News | Updated 9:25 am EST, Monday, November 23, 2020 HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Hawaii island organizations has distributed $7.5 million in federal funds to help pay rent and mortgages for 1,322 households during the...

Hawaii Island Group Distributes $7.5M in Virus Housing Aid

by Mari Ebersole | Nov 23, 2020 | Affordable Housing, Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, Families, In the News

View Content Direct from Source Beaumont Enterprise | Nov. 23, 2020Updated: Nov. 23, 2020 8:25 a.m.     HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Hawaii island organizations has distributed $7.5 million in federal funds to help pay rent and mortgages for 1,322 households...

Nonprofit Groups Work With Landlords to Help House People Struggling to Pay Rent

by Mari Ebersole | Nov 21, 2020 | Affordable Housing, Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, Families, In the News

View Content Direct from Source By Annalisa Burgos, KITV4 Island News | Saturday, November 21st 2020, 10:32 AM HST   Melody Lopez of Bridging the Gap, a coalition of more than 25 homeless service providers on the neighbor islands, joined Good Morning Hawaii to...

$4.4 Mil Disbursed Through County Rent, Mortgage Assistance Program

by Mari Ebersole | Oct 26, 2020 | Affordable Housing, Blog, COVID-19, Disaster relief, Families, In the News

View Content Direct from Source By Big Island Now | October 26, 2020, 8:43am Six Hawai‘i Island-based nonprofit organizations joined today to announce the Hawai‘i County Rent and Mortgage Assistance Program (RMAP) has disbursed $4.4 million in housing assistance...

Factory-Built Housing Made in Hawai‘i

by Kristen Alice | Feb 5, 2020 | Affordable Housing, In the News, Puna

Rendering of a HalePlus factory-built modular home | Photo: Courtesy of HPM Building Supply LiAnne Yu As the fifth-generation leader of a local company, Jason Fujimoto has seen the lack of affordable housing impact his own Hawai‘i Island community, including people he...

Making housing affordable: Council panel advances resolution to reach solution

by Kristen Alice | Jan 8, 2020 | Affordable Housing, In the News

By NANCY COOK LAUER West Hawaii Today | Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 12:05 a.m.Applicants wait in line to find out their standing in the Kamakana Villages lottery in 2017. (Laura Ruminski/West Hawaii Today) Government officials agree Hawaii County needs to construct...