Applications now accepted for Waikoloa affordable rentals

[terracore]

In case Puna has been too wet for you...

Tenant applications are now being accepted for the planned Waikoloa Family Affordable rental housing development on Hawaii Island, it was announced this week.

Managed by Locations LLC, Waikoloa Family Affordable is a 110-unit complex located at 68-3911 Makana Kai Drive in Waikoloa, according to a recent announcement. The complex will serve qualifying families with annual incomes of 30% and 60% or less of the area median income.

According to the announcement, each rental unit will have an air conditioning unit, a solar water heater, storage area and energy-efficient appliances, as well as one parking stall per unit. Limited additional parking stalls for two-bedroom units are also available for rent.

Available units include: six one-bedroom units at $405, 30% AMI; 33 one-bedroom units at $941 a month, 60% AMI; 40 two-bedroom flats at $1,058 per month, 60% AMI; and 31 two-bedroom townhomes at $1,108 per month, 60% AMI.

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident alien, occupy their unit as their primary residence, pass a credit and criminal check, and provide landlord references, the announcement noted. An applicant's minimum monthly income must also be 2.5 times or more of the monthly rent.
Applications are due by March 31 and will evaluated on a first come, first serve basis.
To request an application, email Locations at WaikoloaFA@locationshawaii.com or call (808) 738-3119.
Chosen applicants are tentatively expected to move in this spring.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hopefully this will allow some Puna residents who work at west side resorts to live in Waikaloa Village - - and not have to commute from Hilo on the bus.  Getting up at 3:30 AM  - - then back again after work has got to wear on a person.  I give them credit for the effort they put in to have a job.

[Durian Fiend]

Good of you to share this news. I wonder what the annual median income is, also the square footage of those 1 bedroom units.

[AaronM]

I also give them credit HOTPE, but continuing to work a job more akin to indentured servitude than to anything resembling a 'dream' isn't noble, it's masochistic.

[TomK]

I also give them credit HOTPE, but continuing to work a job more akin to indentured servitude than to anything resembling a 'dream' isn't noble, it's masochistic.

So let me get this right. No one said anything about a dream or a noble job, but you describe the people who commute to the west side of the island every day as masochists? People, who have no other way to make a living other than working on the west side of the island are masochists?

What is it you want them to do instead?

[AaronM]

"No one said anything" about "People, who have no other way"

"No one said anything".  So what?
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"No other way to make a living"

This delusional statement sums up the victim mentality that says that subsistence labor is an honorable or impressive thing to do.

Clearly the Union isn't doing enough to address the income inequality in our hospitality industry and guaranteed the hotels don't give a rats ass. 

Thanks to myopic statements like yours there will always be workers who feel that they have no other choice than to be taken advantage of.

[kalakoa]

income inequality in our hospitality industry

All industries. Wage increases (if any) trail the cost of living by a wide margin. Some hotels are already using robots.

people who commute to the west side of the island every day

Workforce housing near to the actual employment is a step in the right direction. The unfortunate reality is that many of the people who commute have their lives rooted in the east side; they can't just pack up and move closer to work.

[Durian Fiend]

"No one said anything" about "People, who have no other way"

"No one said anything".  So what?
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"No other way to make a living"

This delusional statement sums up the victim mentality that says that subsistence labor is an honorable or impressive thing to do...

It's better than not working, right?   

I think he was questioning your use of the word dream because you had it in quotes, as if someone else had mentioned it.  I didn't see anyone imply that subsistence wage labor was noble either. 

Who's to say that all of those commuting to work on Kona side have low paying jobs?   I'd be willing to bet that many of them get paid quite well.  Nevertheless, their housing dollars go much farther living on the East side so that's their choice.  For that matter, I don't know how anyone affords to live on the West side, unless they've already made a fortune somehow.  Real estate prices there are stratospheric.

[leilanidude]

The Waikoloa resort jobs are almost entirely union and they make more than most of you realize. My favorite one listed right now is a boat driver at the Hilton Waikoloa for $21hr.

[AaronM]

those aren't quotation marks.

specific to the cost of living here, how close to a living wage is $21?

https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/15003