The Hawaii Public Housing Authority has announced a big push to increase the number of public housing units available in the State of Hawaii. The plan is to take older out-of-order units which are currently unfit for occupancy and to renovate them and make the habitable. These units will then be placed back into the rental pool. One side benefit to this plan is the fact that the Housing Authority will be hiring up to 50 full-time employees to renovate these units and keep them maintained.
Executive Director for the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Hakim Ouansafi, stated that there are currently 500 or so units that are out-of-order. Ouansafi noted that this is costing the state approximately $3.8 million a year in federal money because of the fact that they unoccupied. The goal is to have all of these units back on line within the next 18 months.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 7-8-2012, www.staradvertiser.com
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