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Executive Summary ES-05 Executive Summary - 24 CFR 91.200(c), 91.220(b) 1. Introduction The County of Hawai'i is required to submit a Consolidated Plan (CP) to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in order to receive its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds.The purpose of the County's CP is to ensure that jurisdictions receiving direct federal assistance utilize and develop a plan for its housing and related needs of extremely-low,very low-, low, and moderate-income families in a way that improves the availability and affordability of decent, safe and sanitary housing within a suitable living environment. The County's CP has three major sections: Housing&Special Needs Housing; Homeless; and Community Development. The County's CP provides goals, priorities, needs, and data used to develop the plan for how the County intends to administer the HUD CDBG Program. The State of Hawaii CP provides background, direction, and a plan for how the State intends to administer HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), National Housing Trust Fund (HTF), Emergency Solutions Grant, and Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) to assist in meeting the housing of Hawai'i's citizens. In PY2018,the County of Hawaii was designated the State's National Housing Trust Fund (HTF) Sub- grantee for HUD's new MTF program to provide affordable rental housing units serving households with incomes at or below 30%of the area median income. The County of Hawaii identified a total of$700,521,582 in unmet recovery needs from the 2018 Kilauea Lava Disaster. Approximately,8,448 acres of land were inundated by lava, 3,983 acres were isolated, and 3,000 residents were displaced. In addition, 12.5 miles of public roads, 20 miles of private roads and 14.5 miles of waterlines were impacted from the volcanic event. The three main recovery categories are housing, infrastructure and economic development. Housing, including land and structures,were inundated with lava. This included residential properties containing single-family units with a mix of owner, renter and secondary properties resulting in the destruction of over 700 properties. It was determined there was an estimated unmet need of $236,873,682. The lava flow damaged infrastructure and impacted critical roadways and utilities in the Puna District. Impacted roads provided vital access to residential neighborhoods,jobs and transportation corridors for people traversing the Puna District. Damages to utilities such as water,electric and communication towers resulted in more than$236 million in public infrastructure damages. Estimated unmet need of$65,389,000. Consolidated Plan HAWAII COUNTY 1 OMB Control No.2506-0117(exp.06/30/2018)