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Recommending Harbor Frights?? Things must have drastically improved there since I lived on Maui decades ago. Actually, I would be interested in comments on what that complex is like nowadays.
It's not that Harbor Lights is "better", it's just that the welfare housing projects are really that much worse- totally infested with crystal meth addicts.
I know a lady who gets a housing subsidy and lives in Lahaina across the highway from that big undeveloped space (I think there are plans to clear out the homeless folks living there and develop it). Her neighbors seem pretty normal.
Recommending Harbor Frights?? Things must have drastically improved there since I lived on Maui decades ago. Actually, I would be interested in comments on what that complex is like nowadays.
I would recommend it over actual low income housing like Down Housing(I forget the actual name). Harbor Lights was actually better before though.
I met a man a Couple years ago here in oregon a disabled vet. Who was on two waiting lists one in pearl city and one in Hilo and he got calls a week a part that there was a place for him.
I met a man a Couple years ago here in oregon a disabled vet. Who was on two waiting lists one in pearl city and one in Hilo and he got calls a week a part that there was a place for him.
Years ago doesn't mean much today, sorry. There is far more demand for low-income housing than there is supply, and in most cases waiting lists are years long, and some are so long they've been closed to new applicants.
Not that it's always the case, but I like to shape people's expectations appropriately. In general the shortest waits currently are for elderly low-income people.
PaliPatty, I lived in Honolulu for 10 yrs. and I know personally what a struggle it is to live and work in Hawaii. However Hawaii receives 3 times as much federal money as it pay in taxes, etc. So the rest of the county basicly keeps you'll afloat. So your attitude that this is "our" place and we get first choice, gets old. I think Hawaii could be a wonderful place to live for everyone if your elected officals cared to make it so. The resources are there, it's just that things are set up to make life hard for the avg. working person there. Aloha and best wishes for your husband, Robert
However Hawaii receives 3 times as much federal money as it pay in taxes, etc.
That kind of skews the big picture when you say that -
While Hawaii takes in about 6.5 Billion of Federal Revenue and spends about $20 Billion, we are overshadowed by Mississippi, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida.
You want a state being kept afloat -
Florida takes in about $122 billion of federal tax revenue and spends a whopping $528 billion of federal tax money.
>>>>>>4) Hawaii
> Federal spending per capita net of income taxes: $13,709
> Total federal spending per capita: $15,331
> Federal income taxes per capita: $1,622
The Hawaiian Islands have 11 military bases,contributing to the country’s highest per capita federal expenditure from the Department of Defense in 2010. Along with a large number of military personnel on the government payroll, Hawaii also had the highest federal salaries and wages. Some 77% of the salaries and wages paid are for active military personnel. The state had the 10th highest federal procurement spending per capita, at $2,017.80. Since 2006, federal expenditure on salaries and wages in Hawaii has more than doubled.<<<<<<
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