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60%, respectively). Sixty-nine percent of the <br /> units needed to house the elderly in Hawaii <br /> County would serve households earning 80 <br /> percent AMI or less. The number of housing <br /> units needed to accommodate low- and <br /> moderate-income elderly households in Kauai <br /> County, however, accounts for 82 percent of the <br /> total elderly units needed. <br /> Within the units needed for households earning <br /> up to 80 percent of the HUD median, about one- <br /> quarter (26%) would be ownership units if their <br /> preferences could be filled. As suggested in our <br /> earlier discussions of qualification to own, very <br /> few of these households would be able to afford <br /> to buy a unit. The planning reality is that all <br /> 2,092 of the units for elderly households earning <br /> up to 80 percent of HUD median income should <br /> be rental units. Rental units will fill the need for <br /> housing at a level that the residents can afford. <br /> Table 13 also shows the preferences pattern for <br /> single-family and multi-family needed units. In <br /> general, the preference for single-family units is <br /> still visible in the estimates, but there is much <br /> greater acceptance of multi-family units among <br /> the elderly households. That is especially true <br /> among those with household incomes below 80 <br /> percent of AMI. <br /> As with the estimates in Tables 11 and 12, these <br /> estimates should be treated very loosely. <br /> Demand for any class of units might easily fulfill <br /> the housing needs of our elderly households. <br /> The pattern shown here is generated primarily by <br /> the preferences measured in the demand <br /> survey. The figures can be used by planners as <br /> ceiling estimates for needed units. <br /> Hawaii Housing Planning Study,2011 Page 29 <br /> 0 SMS, Inc. November,2011 <br />