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The Maui News
Hawaiian Community Assets has received a $1.5 million grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to increase access to services, grants, loans and housing opportunities for Native Hawaiians looking to rent or own homes.
The funding will be used to establish the Native Hawaiian Occupancy Ready Project to create an occupancy-ready database of Native Hawaiian residents who have enrolled in Hawaiian Community Assets' free financial counseling services.
Hawaiian Community Assets is a nonprofit and a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-certified housing counseling agency. Its work through the grant will help support residents facing high living expenses and a shortage of affordable housing.
"We are so humbled by this generous grant from OHA," Hawaiian Community Assets Executive Director Chelsie Evans Enos said in a news release Friday. "Their commitment to our mission of housing readiness and financial education will enable us to reach more individuals and families in need. This funding will empower us to expand our programs for more rent to own options, increase those reached through personalized housing ready counselors, and equip Hawai'i's people with the knowledge and resources necessary to achieve stable and sustainable housing."