Mission
Our mission is to establish a foundation of hope by providing affordable homes and services for the people of Hawaiʻi.
Permanently Affordable Living (PAL) Hawai’i is a nonprofit affordable housing provider. We are based on the island of Kauaʻi and provide services statewide. We serve houseless and extremely-low to middle-income workforce households earning <30%-120% Area Median Income (AMI).
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Making changes that change lives.
Watch our video to see what we are doing to help people like Kim stay in the neighborhoods they grew up in.
Our Goals
For the majority of residents, living in Hawaiʻi is no vacation. Our islands grapple with skyrocketing housing prices and stagnant wages — forcing multigenerational families to leave. Now, more Hawaiians live on the continental US than in Hawaiʻi, and the Governor of Hawaiʻi has declared a housing emergency.
PAL’s unflinching mission is to bring back affordable housing and keep longtime residents from leaving. Success means stabilizing houseless and low-income families with rental housing so they can eventually attain homeownership through financial education and supportive services. Progress is ensuring that middle-income workforce households of teachers, nurses, and first responders — who still struggle to afford housing — can continue to live and work in the islands.
We work to prevent the displacement of the people who are our islands lifeblood. None of what we do is easy but the aloha spirit is alive and well, and it drives us to move forward. Imua.
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Kauhale O Kekaha, shown here, is dedicated to helping the houseless.
“The time is now. We can no longer have our people living in tents or in their cars, stuffed in overcrowded bedrooms, or worse, leaving the islands indefinitely due to the housing crisis. It is our collective kuleana to solve this tragedy.”
Taylor Kaluahine Lani, Chief Operating Officer
Team
Meet the people who are solving this crisis.