2019-04-09 HCHA Approved Minutes

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HCHA April 9, 2019 Gyotoku: ....also right next door is the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, eight units of elderly units and their in the process of renovating that... David: yes. Gyotoku: ....so that will bring another eight units more into the area. I do have some information, for example a housing voucher program there been an increase in number of vouchers, especially in the Oceanview area, which is really, right now booming... David: That's really good. Yes. Urgently needed. Gyotoku: ....part of illegal home though. It has to be housing quality standards and my inspectors go out make sure, but there has been increase because the housing is cheaper there and we have a lot of low income families in that area so its been an increase in that particular... David: It's a challenge out there I know... Gyotoku: Yeah. David: ....because...so appreciate everything that your office is doing to...to get to those areas that are the rural areas especially that are so, where its actually needed a lot so I appreciate everything that you're doing and extend my offer to you as well as we work through this... Gyotoku: Thank you. David: okay? Alright. Mahalo. Eoff: Okay. Thank you Mrs. David. Anyone else? I know Mr. Richards wants to speak again but before that? Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Can I? Richards: Yeah, go ahead. Kanealii-Kleinfelder: Morning Neil. Thank you. So my...my district has an incredible amount of large rural sub-divisions and we have both in district four and five this constant issue of squatting and that really equals out to having homes that have nobody inside them. And as I walk through the grant in aide process last month I realized that there's a lot of different programs and a lot of different agencies and a lot of different people working on getting people into homes or helping them get ahead and I would really like to see some sort of a Page 19 of 22