Aloha Chair Johnson & Committee Members,
Elle Cochran here. I want to share my thoughts on Housing/shelter as a whole. No matter what we discuss or decide on in the end the Council will need to fund and the Administration will need to implement. Without this equate NOTHING happens!!!
Seeing local residents born & raised here leaving and transplants who wanted to make this their FOREVER home leaving on a daily basis is beyond a CRITICAL level!
It's the RICH driving the prices of homes and rent up.
I researched the 10 Big Cities with the cheapest rents. Main factors that keep Rent prices in check are due to Local residents low median income/poverty/weak economy. The formula here is that You can only charge what people can pay.They all have Low paying jobs/low paying rent. Here we have an imbalance, low paying jobs or wages not keeping up with cost of living/housing/rental prices.So, People with money are buying up homes and paying rental prices that our local residents (primarily Tourist industry jobs) cannot compete with. Thus, we are forcing people to live elsewhere / into foreclosure/homelessness.
Our rich county (we Balance almost a Billion dollars annually) can afford to build transitional housing / affordable housing /remtal assistance and any other type of needs for our residents!! There are numerous Federal Programs/Grants, etc that this County can tap intoner assistance.
It's very important to look at the cause and root of why we need to address Shelter/Housing Issues in order to avoid this sector from growing anymore that it has to!!!
Please contact me for further discussion . cochranell00@gmail.com 808-281-7709
Mahalo,
Elle Cochran
My son, Kai Liu, would like to submit testimony for agenda item AH14-2: Right to Housing. He is 4 years old and cannot write. He also has school during the meeting. But he took the time to create testimony about affordable housing. I took a video because I couldn't think of any other way to get it to the committee.
Is there a way to add this? I put it on youtube to make it easier.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/ysaSkVtVOLY
I'll be on the meeting and can share my screen if bluejeans allows.
Aloha Chair Johnson & Committee Members,
Elle Cochran here. I want to share my thoughts on Housing/shelter as a whole. No matter what we discuss or decide on in the end the Council will need to fund and the Administration will need to implement. Without this equate NOTHING happens!!!
Seeing local residents born & raised here leaving and transplants who wanted to make this their FOREVER home leaving on a daily basis is beyond a CRITICAL level!
It's the RICH driving the prices of homes and rent up.
I researched the 10 Big Cities with the cheapest rents. Main factors that keep Rent prices in check are due to Local residents low median income/poverty/weak economy. The formula here is that You can only charge what people can pay.They all have Low paying jobs/low paying rent. Here we have an imbalance, low paying jobs or wages not keeping up with cost of living/housing/rental prices.So, People with money are buying up homes and paying rental prices that our local residents (primarily Tourist industry jobs) cannot compete with. Thus, we are forcing people to live elsewhere / into foreclosure/homelessness.
Our rich county (we Balance almost a Billion dollars annually) can afford to build transitional housing / affordable housing /remtal assistance and any other type of needs for our residents!! There are numerous Federal Programs/Grants, etc that this County can tap intoner assistance.
It's very important to look at the cause and root of why we need to address Shelter/Housing Issues in order to avoid this sector from growing anymore that it has to!!!
Please contact me for further discussion . cochranell00@gmail.com 808-281-7709
Mahalo,
Elle Cochran
Aloha,
My son, Kai Liu, would like to submit testimony for agenda item AH14-2: Right to Housing. He is 4 years old and cannot write. He also has school during the meeting. But he took the time to create testimony about affordable housing. I took a video because I couldn't think of any other way to get it to the committee.
Is there a way to add this? I put it on youtube to make it easier.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/ysaSkVtVOLY
I'll be on the meeting and can share my screen if bluejeans allows.
Mahalo,
Keisa Liu