Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 15, Number 5, 1 May 1998 — HOUSING BILL [ARTICLE]

HOUSING BILL

I would like to reiterate the message, by Noelle Kahanu (April '98 Ka Wai Ola) on Hawaiian activism on federal housing bills. As a developer of some 1,600 affordable homes and the first private developer to build on Hawaiian Home Lands (Princess Kahanu Estates), I have been dismayed at how our hands have been tied by the federal govemment. Without appropriate legislation, developers trying to build affordable housing on Hawaiian Home Lands are denied access to such programs as HOME funds or Low ineome Tax Credits as well as many rural housing (Farmers Home) pro-

grams. Please eall or write your United States senator to support legislation that opens federal housing funds to Hawaiian Home Lands. Craig Y. Watase vice president, Mark Development, ine.