The state’s Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions is demanding that a Korean church either return or pay $20,000 apiece to buy 20 state-owned tiny housing units installed in their Honolulu parking lot.
The demands were outlined in a letter sent to the pastor of Hawaii Cedar Church by the governor’s homelessness coordinator, Jun Yang. In it, Yang said the Kalihi church was not authorized to use the units and must immediately stop.
The units are occupied by previously unhoused kūpuna and families. Installation of the units was completed in August during the tenure of Yang’s predecessor, John Mizuno, using donated contracting services…