{"id":1195,"date":"2023-06-16T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T01:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stgwww8.honolulu.gov\/housing\/?page_id=1195"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:03:30","slug":"ahwg-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www8.honolulu.gov\/housing\/ahwg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Housing Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1195\" class=\"elementor elementor-1195\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-463a2ba elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"463a2ba\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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Housing Working Group<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8e3962 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b8e3962\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;background-color: var(--ast-global-color-1);color: var(--ast-global-color-8)\">The shortage of affordable housing on Oahu is a long-standing, complex issue that the City and County of Honolulu has faced for decades, and the lack of housing impacts us as a community. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;background-color: var(--ast-global-color-1);color: var(--ast-global-color-8)\">The Affordable Housing Working Group, under the leadership of Executive Director Denise Iseri-Matsubara, fosters cross-sector <\/span>collaboration among city departments to drive housing projects to completion and change the internal 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