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any method of reckoning, there will be a need for Homeless Housing Needs: Housing units that units at nearly every market level for a long time might result from homeless persons re-entering to come. the housing market are not included in Tables 11 or 12. By definition, homeless persons are not Affordable Units: Rental housing units included in the Hawaii Housing Model. The intended for households with incomes below 80 model is built on data on households or housing percent of AMI have, for the most part, been units. For the first time in 2011, the Housing assisted by the public sector. Failure to produce Demand Survey did make provision for including sufficient units for low- and moderate-income homeless persons. By incorporating cell phone households will cause pent-up demand in these interviews rather than relying solely on Iandline market segments. phone numbers associated with a housing unit, the 2011 Housing Demand Survey was able to Affordable housing includes two types of public solicit information from a very small number of sector-generated housing units. The first is homeless persons. Any units needed to house public housing, which includes units developed homeless people in Hawaii properly must be and maintained in perpetuity by the public sector. added to the table of needed units. We will It is "affordable" in the sense that it is available to return to this topic later in this report. qualified persons at below market prices. The second is government-assisted housing, which is usually produced in partnership with Units Needed for Elderly Housing private sector or non-profit affordable housing developers22. Table 13 presents the estimated number of units needed to house Hawaii's senior citizens. The Government assistance extends beyond funding. base number for the table is the same as in the Public sector programs and partnerships often previous two tables. We will need an additional involve government contributions in the form of 28,137 units to fill the gap between housing units financing, permitting, planning and zoning wanted and housing units produced over the variances, land and many other forms of next five years. Among those needed units, assistance. In some cases, affordable housing 3,205 are needed for elderly households — requires post-production services including households containing one or more persons 60 property management and services required by years of age or older with no children under the residents with special needs. Public sector age of 18 and no persons other than immediate agencies often help pay for or subsidize those family. The remaining housing units, referenced services. here as "family units," would be for the use of all other types of households. Special Needs Housing Units: Housing units that might be used by persons with special The units needed to serve elderly households needs are included Tables 11 and 12. They are accounts for about 11.4 percent of the total not specifically identified there, however. The needed units. The rates are similar for all housing needs of those subpopulations and their counties except Kauai County, where they impact on housing planning are discussed later account for 19 percent of the need. in this report. Considering just the units needed for elderly households, about two-thirds (2,092 units) are needed for low- and moderate-income households (under 80% AMI). Here the pattern There may be affordable units produced solely by government agencies and there are some affordable is different across counties. The City and units produced by private sector agencies acting on County of Honolulu and Maui County are similar their own. The typical affordable project is usually a in the percentage of needed elderly units for low- collaborative effort involving multiple agencies and and moderate-income households (64% and sources of funding. Hawaii Housing Planning Study,2011 Page 28 0 SMS, Inc. November,2011