UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect additional comments later Thursday by Hawaiʻi Housing Authority Executive Director Hakim Ouansafi.
Three weeks after Civil Beat reported on problems faced by public housing tenants being moved out of Kūhiō Park Terrace to make way for new construction, the state has swapped the company overseeing that project.
The Michaels Organization is to be replaced by Highridge Costa Development Company. The Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority in 2023 hired Highridge Costa to tear down nine other public housing properties statewide and build 10,000 new affordable housing units in their place, a project called Ka Lei Momi…