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HCHA meeting September 7, 2021 <br />Chung: Yeah, okay. Explain to me, this is, you heard a lot of questions relating <br />to the residency, that's something I think that many of us feel that is very <br />important, right, cause we want to help people who have been here many <br />years, there's a lot of history here and don't have the mobility to move to other <br />places for whatever reason, they kind of stuck here so we want to help them. <br />Explain what went into the decision-making in not going with the one-year <br />residency, I know touched we upon it briefly and there was some mention <br />about people may be coming from the mainland with families who are here for <br />six months and we wanted to help them and of course we all understand but <br />there was also mentioned that other jurisdictions are able to do that so obviously <br />it's legal so from a public policy stand point, explain to me what kinds of <br />discussions were made in that regard, when is the last time something like this <br />was put in place, the one-year, was it ever? <br />Kunz: I don't know if it was ever put into place here in Hawaii County, there <br />was a lot of discussion about how strict we were going to be, you know, Des did <br />explain a little bit about making sure that if an individual was here for six months <br />and is now finding it difficult to be housed, that we have the option to support <br />them and I think maybe it was erring on the side of being more inclusive as we <br />put into play this policy we that we never had in place before. There's certainly <br />an opportunity if we find that this is not restrictive enough and we're still finding a <br />lot of individuals coming on to the wait list, I mean we could certainly come <br />back to do another revision but I think it was trying to be inclusive. <br />Chung: And nobody can fault you guys for that, of course, that is a good policy <br />to advance but unless I misheard what was stated, did you guys say that about <br />30 to 33% of the recipients of these vouchers are from out of state. <br />Kunz: The last time we opened the wait list. <br />Chung: How does that number, that percentage stack up with other <br />jurisdictions, how does it compare, is that a high number, a low number, just <br />around average. <br />Kunz: Good question, Des, would you happen to know? <br />Moore: I don't, in comparison to our in-state PHAs, I don't know what that is. <br />Chung: What you guys want to do, food for thought, go back take a look at <br />that, go do some comparison analysis because that might be a good starting <br />point to see if the inclusion policy is working or not. That's all I have to say. <br />Thank you. <br />Page 18 of 34 <br />