$600 A Month In Kakaako Gets Seniors Mold, Shocks And The Smell Of Death 0 Maintenance problems at a state-owned apartment building for seniors underscore another challenge in providing affordable housing.
When Edie Bandmann was looking for a place to live, the Honuakaha Elderly Housing development in Kakaako seemed the perfect place for the 77-year-old retiree.
Not only were the affordable units in her price range; the building also was across Queen Street from the 19th century Kawaiahao Cemetery and Church, where Bandmann is a member and where her kids celebrated graduations from Kamehameha Schools.
But, like many of her neighbors in Honuakaha, Bandmann’s feelings about life in the development have soured, in her case, because of a smell. According to Bandmann and other neighbors, it took building managers more than a week to perform a welfare check on a tenant who had died alone in her unit.
