News Archive for March, 2008
Healthcare system can set example
March 19th, 2008
By Jerry Burris
Advertiser Columnist
A lot of folks in Hawai’i are excited that Barack Obama has put our state on the map.
But Hawai’i figures in the battle between Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in another substantive way: Our healthcare system is a key subtext in their debate over national healthcare.
It serves as a good, and for […]
Community Groups Discuss Health Care Crisis
February 16th, 2008
The alliance of community groups known as “FACE” came together at the capitol Saturday to talk about the current health care crisis. This is the same alliance that kept the affordable housing at Kukui Gardens from being sold to developers. Now they are taking on the breakdown of health care system. Right now, for example, […]
Hale Koa Harassment Cases Settled
November 30th, 2007
by Nina Wu
The U.S. Army has reached a settlement with seven workers at the Hale Koa Hotel who filed formal complaints of sexual harassment with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Linda Aragon, an attorney at Gilll & Zukeran representing the employees, confirmed that a settlement has been reached, but said the details were confidential.
In June, five […]
Building and saving housing in Hawaii
November 27th, 2007
HONOLULU—EAH Housing is at the center of two major affordable housing deals in Hawaii this year. One is a notable preservation project, and the other is the nonprofit developer’s first new construction deal in the state.
EAH is co-sponsoring with San Francisco-based Devine & Gong, Inc., the acquisition of roughly half of the vast 857- unit […]
Keeping Kukui Gardens
November 27th, 2007
For more than three decades, Carol Anzai and Rosella Newell have called Kukui Gardens home. An 857-unit affordable-housing complex on the edge of Honolulu’s Chinatown, it is a place where 2,500 residents - many of them senior citizens - look out for each other, taking walks in the local park and fishing in the nearby […]
Kukui Gardens lawsuit over sale is settled
November 20th, 2007
The new owners of Kukui Gardens agree to maintain the complex as affordable housing under a settlement agreement announced yesterday.
Representatives of the Kukui Gardens Residents Association and Faith Action for Community Equity signed an agreement yesterday that settles the lawsuit they filed last year to stop the sale of the 857-unit complex, which houses about […]
Don’t make Honolulu’s poorest bear burden of fixing sewers
September 30th, 2007
Bill 57, a resolution creating authorization to spend the windfall from the sale of the city’s affordable housing buildings, is currently being discussed by the City Council. This is the first step toward a public policy disaster. The bill is being driven by the city administration’s proposal to sell its stock of affordable housing to […]
Hawaii’s Turtle Bay resort plans still a sore point
September 7th, 2007
HALE’IWA — The city has begun the process of inviting public comment that could lead to changes to planning documents that guide development in Ko’olauloa and the North Shore.
An undercurrent to the discussions is Kuilima Resort Co.’s proposed development at Turtle Bay that could add as many as five hotels at the border of the […]
Tenants wary of leasing proposal
July 14th, 2007
Rather than selling its affordable housing projects outright, the city is now looking to hold on to the land under six of its 12 complexes, instead leasing the parcels out for between 30 and 70 years with restrictions to keep units below market rent.
Affordable housing advocates and tenants in city complexes are wary of the […]
Business Briefs
June 29th, 2007
A group of Hale Koa employees and other community members, frustrated with lack of information about the ongoing sexual harassment case at the Waikiki hotel, have formed a group to call attention to the problem.”We’re just not going to sit back and wait 180 days until the formal investigation is completed,” said Amy Agbayani, former […]
