HUD Mum On Honolulu’s $7.9 Million

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From Civil Beat this morning:

WASHINGTON — The federal government will not reveal whether Honolulu’s plan to avoid repaying $7.9 million in housing grant money was adequate.

More than two months after the city submitted its final plan for bringing a Wahiawa senior center into compliance with federal grant requirements, officials are still awaiting a formal response from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Last spring, HUD said it found a slew of compliance issues amid routine monitoring of federal Community Block Development Grants that Honolulu awarded to Wahiawa’s ORI Anuenue Hale.

Read the full story here: Honolulu on the Hook for $7.9M? Feds Won’t Say

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