Fellows mentioned in this story:
Jason Fujimoto
Brandee Menino
From Hawai‘i Catholic Herald:
Hawai‘i Island has a brand-new neighborhood in Pahoa named after the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It’s small, just 12 houses — studios for seniors experiencing homelessness. But it is breaking new ground.
The project is the first permanent affordable rental housing community for seniors in the island’s Puna district, the first developed by HOPE Services Hawai‘i, an affiliate of the Catholic Church, and the first constructed as HPM Building Supply’s innovative HalePlus prefabricated modular homes.
Blessed on Nov. 8 by vicar general Msgr. Gary Secor at a dedication ceremony attended by about 100 people, it’s called the Sacred Heart Affordable Housing Project, a development of locally-made factory-built homes and an accompanying resource center. It sits on 14.5 acres bought from the Catholic Church adjacent to the Sacred Heart Shelter, a village of micro-units built next to Sacred Heart Church to house those displaced by the 2018 Kīlauea eruption.
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