Featured Article Archive for September, 2010

FACE Releases Study That Links Transit to Thousands of Jobs for Honolulu

For Immediate Release Honolulu, HI, September 2, 2010—FACE leaders will gather this morning at 10:00 AM, at the state’s unemployment office, at 830 Punchbowl Street, to release a transit jobs study commissioned by the Transportation Equity Network (TEN) and FACE entitled “More Transit = More Jobs”. “This study highlights how many real jobs can come [...]

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August 25th, 2010

After Hannemann’s departure, Honolulu is doing a 180 on housing issues. Joan Conrow August 25, 2010 FAITH ACTION FOR COMMUNITY EQUITY/ For years, Oahu housing advocates found former Mayor Mufi Hannemann’s door shut tight to their concerns. “He wouldn’t even meet with us,” said Jun Yang, an organizer with FACE (Faith Action for Community Equity), [...]

A city housing office could help solve homelessness

August 1st, 2010

By The Rev. Alan Mark FACE (Faith Action for Community Equity) has been pressing for a city housing office to bring an intense focus in the city on affordable housing, which is the true solution to the growing affordable housing and homeless crisis we face. The renewed focus on safe zones for the homeless is [...]

Stop the (un)Fare bus increase!

Sign onto the online petition to tell Mayor Mufi Hannemann to reconsider the bus fare increase. The petition states: Aloha Mayor Mufi Hannemann, Please reconsider your increase to the cost of theBus. We just had a fare increase and two at once is too much. Many of us support rail, but we think that you [...]

FACE Accountability Assembly this Saturday!

Our Accountability Assembly this Saturday will be at First United Methodist Church in town from 9:00 – 11:00 AM. This meeting is the culmination of all the work that we have been doing since the beginning of the year. From the beginning of the year, we started a listening process that we called our Talk [...]

FACE Oahu Equity Platform ready to view

May 20th, 2010

The FACE Oahu Equity Platform is ready to be viewed. 2010 FACE Issues Brochure The process began in January at a leadership training. The platform is the result of three months of small group meetings, also known as Talk Stories, that were held in our faith organizations and community organizations on the island of Oahu. [...]

FACE Oahu’s Issues for 2010

On Sunday, April 11, 125 members of FACE’s Oahu Chapter came together at our Issues Dialogue to narrow down the concerns we will take up beginning this year. This was the culmination of the 40+ house meetings and surveys which were conducted throughout our Oahu member organizations over the last three months. Education, specifically the [...]

Oahu needs rail — for jobs, for family and for economy

February 12th, 2010

Idea first proposed almost 40 years ago; this may be last try By Bob Nakata Many of us have become concerned that the Honolulu rail project is grinding to a halt. It is worth remembering why many of us wanted rail in the first place. It has been almost 40 years since rail [...]

“When I was a stranger you welcomed me.” (Matthew 25:35)

In tough times, council aims for more affordable housing

January 14th, 2010

By CHRIS HAMILTON, Staff Writer WAILUKU – Maui County Council members took a step Wednesday toward altering the county’s residential work force housing policy in an effort to coax more development of affordable housing – and any housing – in these troubled economic times. And Public Services Committee Chairman Wayne Nishiki reiterated an earlier pledge [...]