Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 19, Number 3, 1 March 2002 — Home loans [ARTICLE]

Home loans

A new loeal mortgage brokerage company focusing on lending to Hawaiians and those with low to moderate incomes has opened in

Honolulu, Hawai'i Community Lending is now working with families in the Waiohuli Homestead Association on Maui who plan to build on unimproved lots, Winona Ka'uhane, the company's commumty lending officer who is helping homesteaders obtain loans to buy, renovate or refinance their homes, said "no one is ever turned away, We don't say no, we say how," The company's investors include loeal and mainland banks and it is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Comrmmity Assets īne,, a Maui-based group that aims to help Hawaiians and low-ineome communities achieve self-sufficiency.