Fellows mentioned in this story: Brandee Menino, Cohort VII

From Big Island Now:

HOPE Services Hawaiʻi (HOPE) is in the process of constructing its first affordable housing project for seniors experiencing homelessness.

Located in Pāhoa, the Sacred Heart Affordable Housing Project (SHAHP) will consist of 12 480-square-foot modular studio units, which were purchased from HPM Building Supply. SHAHP will be on the same site as HOPE’s Sacred Heart Shelter, the micro-unit village erected in 2018 to house seniors displaced by the Kīlauea eruption.

“No person should be priced out of their home, but that is the consequence of rising property values, and our kūpuna on fixed incomes are suffering,” said HOPE’s CEO Brandee Menino. “This project will provide permanent homes for at least a dozen houseless seniors, and I hope it will inspire more like it.”

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