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• obstacles - The major obstacles of producing affordable special needs housing are the lack o £financial resources and the lack of infrastructure. The County hopes to leverage other sources of funds by providing federal funds to subsidize the cost of housing. In addition, community acceptance of special needs housing may be an obstacle. Many of these homes are covered under the Federal Fair Housing .Act. However lack of understanding of the Act may be an obstacle in developing special needs housing in communities. • General priorities for allocating federal funds g_eogrWhieally - The County does not allocate its federal funds geographically. A request for proposal process is used to allocate funds to activities. • General priorities for allocating federal funds - The request for proposal process for HOME and CDBG funds is designed to assign points to various criteria. One of the criteria is the consistency with the County's CP and its priorities. Projects that address high priority activities will be awarded higher points than medium or low priority projects. • Specific special needs objectives - As stated in the housing section, the County plans to construct 100 affordable rental units for the elderly with HOME and/or CDBG funds. • Describe how funds will be used to address needs for the period of the Counry's CP - The most pressing need in the County of Hawaii is affordable Housing. Therefore, the County has designated Housing as high priority for use of its HOME, and CDBG funds. Project proposals that address this need and priority will be given higher points in the Project Proposal selection system. 111. Obstacles to Housing Priorities The major obstacles of producing affordable housing are the lack of financial resources and the lack of infrastructure. The county hopes to leverage other sources of funds (i.e, USDA, State, Federal, and private) by providing federal funds to subsidize the cost of housing. In addition, the availability and the ability to acquire land suitable for housing and community acceptance of affordable housing projects may also be an obstacle. IV. Needs The following section describes the State's and County's estimated housing needs for the next five years (2010 - 2014). The data is based upon the 2000 U.S- Census data; the Hawaii Housing Policy Study, 2006; the Homeless Point -in -Time Count Report, 2009; and the CHAS provided by HUD, 2010-14 CP Fiml 19