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Maui County Council's meeting Feb. 16 was a fiasco and showed a lack of humanity and compassion for residents of this 'aina struggling to find safe, dignified housing.
The destruction caused by the August 8 fires destroyed over 2,200 structures; most were homes. Yet, the current Housing Director has provided no plans to address the high-need housing crisis for our westside ohana. Instead, an unvetted, three-person committee was not required to submit financial disclosures to the Board of Ethics and was given unfettered authority for site selection of upcoming affordable housing projects.
Not one project was on the west side.
Maui County Council spent $300,000 on the Comprehensive Affordable Housing Plan. Why hasn't it been implemented? Why did we need another committee to tell us what we already know?
This kind of systemic failure on the part of the administration contributes to the ongoing trauma of our displaced ohana.
Aunty "NTY" Carol Lee Kamekona
Kahului