Honolulu officials met a federally-mandated deadline to submit a report about its use of Community Development Block Grant money earlier this month, but the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development told DC808 that the report was “lacking.”

“It is fair to say that HUD found the city’s response incomplete in two important areas,” HUD spokeswoman Gene Gibson told DC808 in an email on Wednesday.

Gibson said that HUD is “pleased” that the city is working to avoid returning $7.9 million in federal grant money, but that its plan to bring the Wahiawa nonprofit ORI into federal compliance was not detailed enough. 

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