How buyers are chosen for county housing

A. The department shall establish and maintain a separate waiting list of interested applicants for each of the following community plan regions: 1. Hāna. 2. Kīhei—Mākena. 3. Lahaina. 4. Lāna‘i. 5. Makawao—Pukalani—Kula. 6. Moloka‘i. 7. Pāi‘a—Ha‘ikū. 8. Wailuku—Kahului. Prior to initiating the waiting list for each community plan region, the department shall cause to be published in at least five issues of a newspaper of general circulation within the county, a public notice which shall contain all information that is relevant to the establishment of the waiting lists. The public shall also be informed in a like manner, of any decision which would substantially affect the maintenance and use of the waiting lists. B. Placement on the waiting list shall initially be on the basis of a drawing that shall be conducted by the department. To participate in the drawing, a person or family must submit a completed preliminary homeownership application that is received by the department within the time period specified in the public notice that is to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county. Placement on the waiting list for applications that are received by the department after the deadline for participation in the drawing, shall be on the first-come first-served basis, with the date and time of receipt of the completed preliminary homeownership application by the department being used as the basis for determining such placement. C. 1. Selection for purchase of a county housing unit shall be made in the order that the names appear on the list for the region in which the county housing is located, subject to the applicant being able to meet the eligibility criteria established in section 2.86.320 . 2. The director may give preference to a person or persons and families who are displaced or are to be displaced from their homes by an action of the county, state or federal government. D. This selection procedure shall not apply to the proposed West Maui (Hale Noho Subdivision) and the Upper Paia (Skill Village Subdivision) housing projects. The existing waiting list of interested applicants which is being maintained by the housing department for each of these projects shall be utilized to select the buyers for the units in these projects. E. Selection for purchase of a housing unit which has been purchased by the county under its buy-back option shall be made in the order that the names appear on the waiting list of interested applicants for the project or region, whichever is applicable, which was utilized in selecting the original buyers. In addition, should the county acquire title to a housing unit in a private development by way of a buy-back option granted to the county, the purchaser for such housing unit shall be selected from the waiting list for the applicable community plan region. This procedure shall also apply to cases where the county grants a conditional waiver to its buy-back option. ( Ord. No. 5676 , § 5, 2024; Ord. No. 5676 , § 5, 2024; Ord. 1967 § 1 (part), 1990: Ord. 1754 § 1, 1988; Ord. 1336 §§ 1 (part) and 2 (part), 1983)