Lanai May Finally Get An Affordable Housing Project. It Might Even Get 2 … Two affordable housing projects proposed by Maui County and Pulama Lanai could boost the island’s low-income housing stock for the first time in nearly three decades.
It’s been nearly 30 years since an affordable housing project has been built on Lanai, where workforce housing is in short supply and families sometimes bunk together to keep a roof over their heads.
A decade ago the county came up with a plan to develop more than 400 affordable units on the outskirts of Lanai City. But the county appeared to abandon the project in 2015 because of the high costs to build sewer and water lines to service the undeveloped property.
Now the long-stalled plan to create homes for low-income residents is getting new momentum, and a county councilman says the project is closer to fruition than ever before.
