Hale Makana O Moiliili seen in the Star Advertiser

In the article, Affordable senior housing complex set to rise in Moiliili, by Andrew Gomes, writes about are project, Hale Makana O Moiliili. The plnned project is about to begin and will take about seventeen months to complete. Here is an excerpt from the Aug. 23, 2021 article:

A cluster of nearly century-old homes in Moiliili is slated for demolition next month to make way for high-density affordable housing serving seniors with low incomes.

The planned six-story apartment building with 105 residences is expected to take 17 months to build, and is the product of a more than 2-year-old effort led by the local nonprofit affordable-housing development firm Hawaiian Community Development Board in partnership with California-­based 3 Leaf Holdings Inc.

Earlier this month the partnership received state approval to sell $22 million in bonds to help finance the $40 million project, after previously arranging a package of state and federal financing and obtaining City Council approval for project density and fee exemptions under a state affordable-housing law.

“We’re ready to move forward,” said Kali Watson, Hawaiian Community Develop­ment’s executive director, who once led the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. “It was a long process.”

The project, named Hale Makana O Mo‘ili‘ili is slated to provide studio and one- bedroom apartments with projected monthly rents from $521 to $1,226 for low-income residents age 55 and up.

Please read full article here.

Our Victory Gardens project is in the Local News Matters- Bay Area

Victory Gardens, a $27 million affordable housing project for veterans in French Camp, is being constructed with state and federal grants. The 49 units will have access to such amenities as a community garden, kitchen facilities and a computer room with high-speed internet. (Image courtesy of 3 Leaf/San Joaquin County)

The article, San Joaquin County building project for homeless vets funded largely by grants, written for localnewsmatters.org discusses our Victory Gardens project in French Camp. We broke ground on the project that will house homeless veterans.

Here is an excerpt from the August 5, 2021 article written by by Victoria Franco, Bay City News Foundation.

Leaders from around San Joaquin County joined the county’s Housing Authority on Monday in French Camp to break ground at the location of a project to house homeless veterans.

The $27 million project, Victory Gardens, will be located at 295 W. Mathews Road and will have construction completed by approximately winter 2022, according to the county’s Housing Authority.

The property will consist of 49 affordable housing units, a community garden, a common area used for socializing, a community kitchen and a computer room with high-speed internet for veterans to use at their convenience.

For the first time, a San Joaquin County project received state funds from the state’s Veteran Housing and Homelessness Prevention Program to aid in the financial process of completing Victory Gardens.

See full article here.

Our new proposal for Chinatown hotel is in the KHON2 news.

Max Rodriguez wrote an article in KHON2 news about the proposed project by Ikenakea Development. The proposal is for a 15 floor hotel in the Chinatown neighborhood of Honolulu.

Here is an excerpt from the article from KHON2 from July 7, 2021.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Developers are proposing to build a 15-story hotel in a Chinatown parking lot located on 120 Nimitz Highway. They said it could help grow the economy in the area.

Behind the proposed project is Ikenakea Development, which envisions more than 200 rooms for the hotel. Christopher Flaherty, a partner of the plan, said they estimate the hotel’s construction to cost upwards of $145 million.

“We feel this is right for this particular piece of property and will bring much needed economic activity into Chinatown,” Flaherty said. “We’re anticipating all things go our way, and the community supports it, and they feel will work in this location. We figure we could probably break ground within four years from now, three- to four years roughly.”

Groundbreaking ceremony at Victoria Gardens featured in Recordnet.com

photo by Craig Sanders

The article, San Joaquin County Housing Authority breaks ground on affordable units for homeless veterans, by Aaron Leathley, discusses our Victory Gardens project. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“If this isn’t a feel-good moment, I don’t know what is,” Peter Ragsdale, executive director of the Housing Authority of the County of San Joaquin, said Monday as officials and community members gathered in French Camp to break ground on the site of a future housing development for homeless veterans.

Victory Gardens will be a 48-unit permanent supportive housing development, built on 4.7 acres of county-owned land at 295 West Mathews Road, next to the San Joaquin General Hospital Dialysis Center.  

The project aims to address homelessness specifically among veterans, who are disproportionately represented among the population of homeless people. While veterans make up 7% of the general population in the U.S., they make up 13% of the population of homeless people nationally, Ragsdale said. Across the U.S., there are about 40,000 veterans without stable housing, he said.

On top of the challenge of finding affordable housing and a job with a living wage, veterans also deal disproportionately with PTSD and substance use, Ragsdale said. 

“We can’t do enough” about homelessness among veterans, Miguel Villapudua, San Joaquin County supervisor for District 1, said. 

“It’s a call and a crisis of humanity,” Tom Patti, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, said. 

The Stockton Records’s photographer, Craig Sanders documented the groundbreaking ceremony at Victory Gardens on August 2. Please view the picture gallery here.

Please see full article here.

Hale O Pi’ikea featured in the Maui News

Kehaulani Cerizo’s article, 90-unit affordable rental project gets nod from committee, comments about our Hale O Pi’ikea project.

Here is an excerpt from the March 4, 2021 article in the Maui News:

Developers of a 90-unit affordable housing project in Kihei are seeking nearly $6 million from the county’s Affordable Housing Fund to help acquire land for the project.

The Maui County Council’s Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee voted 9-0 Wednesday to recommend the funds, which would go to the Hawaiian Community Development Board to purchase about 9 acres at Piikea Avenue and Liloa Drive.

The parcel is the future site for Hale O Pi’ikea, a proposal by developer ‘Ikenakea Development LLC in partnership with Hawaiian Community Development Board and 3 Leaf Holdings for two four-story buildings with one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments. A community resource center and other common areas would be included.

Project developers are planning to construct 90 units, with nine designated for residents earning at or below 30 percent of the area median income, nine at or below 50 percent AMI, 71 units at or below 60 percent AMI and one unit for an on-site property manager. The affordability period is 61 years, according to county documents.

Net monthly rent would range from $420 in the 30 percent AMI category to $1,293 in the 60 percent AMI category, based on the Department of Housing and Human Concerns’ 2020 Affordable Rent Guidelines.

Please read full article here.

How is San Joaquin Valley addressing homelessness?

In the article, An update on steps taken to address homelessness in San Joaquin County, by Kathy Miller, Adam Cheshire and Jon Mendelson they address how San Joaquin County is helping with their homelessness problem.

Here is an excerpt from the January 30, 2021 article:

In January 2019, we shared some of the progress being made to serve the estimated 2,500 sheltered and unsheltered homeless children and adults in San Joaquin County. The progress made since then has been nothing short of phenomenal. The following provides a snapshot of where we are in this fight. 

• The San Joaquin Continuum of Care (SJCoC) leads the countywide, collaborative planning efforts to address the broad scope of issues contributing to homelessness in San Joaquin County. Collaboration is one of the funding requirements and we do it well.  We are expanding both shelter and supportive housing to develop a sustainable system that can have a real and permanent impact in reducing homelessness in our local communities.   

• The Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) provided one-time state funds totaling $7.1 million, awarded to the SJCoC. Funded projects include $3.25 million for a partnership between STAND Affordable Housing, Housing Authority of San Joaquin (HASJ), Stockton Shelter for the Homeless, Central Valley Low Income Housing Corporation (CVLIHC), and the city of Stockton to develop completely self-contained “tiny home” units that will be available as permanent housing for homeless families.  Occupation will begin early this year. 

• Victory Gardens, a partnership between the county and HASJ, is a 49-unit housing development exclusively for homeless veterans located in French Camp adjacent to the San Joaquin General Hospital and local Veterans Affairs facilities. The project received funding awards in 2020 totaling nearly $27 million, along with land and resources from the county, and will use Department of Housing and Urban Development vouchers to provide ongoing rental assistance for veterans and their families. Construction will begin in April, with a planned opening by year-end.   

Please read the full article here.

We hope that all of these steps that are addressed in the article help the people living on the streets. Our Victory Gardens projects that will house homeless veterans and is anticipated to be completed by the fall of 2022.

Our affordable housing complex in Maili featured in KITV 4 Island News

Paul Drewes’ s article, Affordable housing project opens, but state needs more, featured our Hale Makana O Maili project.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

A new year meant a new home for some tenants, who moved into a just-built affordable rental complex in Maili.
 More public and private housing projects will start construction this year, but experts say it still won't be enough to satisfy the state's supply shortage of affordable homes.

Hale Makana o Maili is now home to the McIntosh-Farrelly family.

"We are planning on raising my babies here. It is brand new. It is perfect for us. It is very nice inside," said Darcie McIntosh-Farrelly.

Her family moved down the coast from Waianae, and moved up from a small studio to a two bedroom apartment in the affordable housing complex.

"Most of our tenants are from the Leeward Coast and include a lot of Native Hawaiians. They have been our focus, but this housing complex is not limited to Native Hawaiians," stated Kali Watson, Hawaiian Community Development Board President.

The residents all have one thing in common: they want affordable housing.

"Affordable housing is in such high demand, there is always a need. People will always want affordable housing," said Mark Development Inc. Project Coordinator Micah Witty-Oakland.

How affordable?
For those only making 30% of the average median income (AMI) a two bedroom unit costs $635 each month.
That amount more than doubles to $1,486 for those making 60% of the AMI.
Which is why these units have been a hot commodity.

Please see full article here.

HCDB's Hale Moena Ohana affordable rental project in Kapolei in the Pacific Business News

The Jan 26, 2021 article, Highridge Costa to hold lottery for its Kapolei affordable rentals project, by Janis L. Magin discussed HCDB’s project on Kapolei. Here is an excerpt from the article:

Highridge Costa has opened applications for 143 affordable rentals in Kapolei for families earning no more than 60% of the area median income and will hold a virtual lottery on Thursday to create a wait list for the units.

Michaels Management is handling leasing and the lottery and will manage the building, Hale Moena Ohana, which is adjacent to the developer’s Hale Moena Kupuna building that opened last year with 154 affordable units for seniors.

Applications may be submitted on the website here and the digital lottery can be viewed on Thursday at 10 a.m. here. Applications received after that will be added to the end of the wait list.

The building, which is nearing completion at 1055 Alohikea St., will have studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for families, with move-ins planned for March.

The project, which broke ground in August 2019, was developed by Callifornia-based Highridge Costa in partnership with Honolulu-based Coastal Rim Properties, along with the Hawaiian Community Development Board. It was designed by SVA Architects and built by Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co.

Please read full article here.

Hale O Makana Maili is in the Pacific Business News

In the Jan 20, 2021, article, Move-ins start at new affordable rental complex on Oahu's Leeward Coast, Janis L. Magin writes about our Hale O Makana Maili project.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

About 22 families have  started to move in to Hale O Makana Maili, a 52-unit affordable rental project for low-income tenants in Leeward Oahu that spurred protests and a lawsuit from neighboring residents as well as a new city rule that could affect all affordable housing projects on Oahu going forward. 

The project has 13 one-bedroom, one-bath units, 31 two-bedroom, one-bath units and seven three-bedroom, two-bath units for tenants making no more than 30%, 50% or 60% of the area median income, as well as a manager’s unit, in six two-story garden-style buildings on 1.95 acres of a 2.78-acre parcel. The complex also includes a manager’s office, a community resource center, a multi purpose room with a mural by Pow! Wow! Hawaii artist KameaHadar, a community kitchen, community lounge and laundry facility. The grounds include open space, a playground, electric vehicle charging stations and bicycle storage stalls.

Please see full article here.

Our Cottage Village Project seen in The Record

In The Record’s article, “Affordable senior housing community has opened in Manteca” Bob Highfill writes about our Cottage Village senior housing project.

Applications can be found here: https://www.hacsjonline.org.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Cottage Village opened on Cottage Avenue in early December and has 40 one-bedroom, one-bathroom units and eight two-bedroom, one-bathroom units available to seniors 62 years and older who are earning 60% of the area median income and below. Many of the tenants living in Cottage Village earn significantly less and residents will spend no more than 30% of their incomes on rent.

The San Joaquin Housing Authority is accepting applications online and creating a waitlist for those 62 and older with email addresses. Renters must be low income to meet eligibility requirements. The online application and instructions can be accessed at https://www.hacsjonline.org.

See full article here.

Please enjoy the short documentary on the Nanakuli Village Center

In an effort to determine their own destiny, obtain self-governance, and independence from the state's oversight, and after many years of intensive community-based planning, the Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association (NHHCA) with the help of Hawaiian Community Development Board (HCDB) has developed a major “village center” project that will include a multipurpose learning center, a 48-unit affordable rental housing complex, a Waianae Comp satellite health clinic with an affordable drug pharmacy, a large renal clinic and a commercial center with Longs as the anchor tenant.

Please enjoy a short documentary on The Story of the Nanakuli Village Center. Filming and editing by Keenan Chung and Keegan Flaherty.

In Hawaii Business Magazine

In Hawaii Business Magazine’ s article, Construction Helps Drive the Local Economy in Tourism’s Absence, our project Hale Makana O Maili is mentioned. Beverly Creamer writes about how construction is helping the economy that has been greatly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Her is an excerpt from the August 3, 2020 article:

Projects big and small, public and private, keep construction as the major economic sector with the fewest layoffs

A spacious and well-stocked warehouse in Kapolei is helping power the strongest major sector in Hawai‘i’s hobbled economy. So is a custom-cabinet maker based in Kailua and a woodworking shop in Kāne‘ohe. For them and hundreds of other small suppliers and contractors, business remains lively, despite the pandemic.

Also driving the local construction industry are big construction, architectural and engineering companies, and big local spenders like the U.S. Department of Defense, the state government and the City and County of Honolulu.

See full article here.