Maui needs a coordinator for affordable housing and a community oversight board.

In 1986, I left my county job to start a homeless shelter with Father Bob Turner in an abandoned Catholic church in Puʻunēnē. This had a profound effect on my life’s work to house our local people, including our homeless brothers and sisters.

In 2006, the late Maui County Council member Danny Mateo proposed the Residential Workforce Housing Policy (MCC Chapter 2.96), which required that all market (no price restrictions) developments include 50% of those homes to be built for residents earning from 80% to 140% of the area median income.

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