The County of Hawai‘i will begin accepting applications for the first of three phases of the Kīlauea Disaster Recovery Voluntary Housing Buyout Program (VHBP) on April 30. Phase 1 addresses properties that were used as a primary residence at the time of the 2018 eruption. Eligible properties for the VHBP must have been impacted by the disaster, whether by inundation or isolation, damage by fires caused by lava, or secondary effects of volcanic activity, such as heating or gases. Applicants must have owned the property at the time of the eruption.
Phasing is based on use of the property at the time of the eruption. Late applications will be processed during subsequent phases. Time between each phase’s application period will be used by staff to process applications and submit buyout offers to qualifying applicants.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii County will accept applications beginning April 30 for the first phase of the Kilauea housing buyout program.
Homeowners with properties that were used as primary residences at the time of the 2018 Kilauea eruption will be eligible to apply.
The county reported that the eruption on Kilauea’s Lower East Rift Zone destroyed 612 homes, including 294 primary residences.
To qualify for the buyout program, properties must have been impacted by lava inundation or isolation. Property damage by fires caused by lava or secondary effects of volcanic activity, such as heating or gases, are also eligible.
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March 4, 2021 at 10:06 am
The Hawai‘i County Council passed two measures authorizing the County to receive $83.84 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds.
In January 2020 HUD allocated the grant to address unmet housing recovery needs from the 2018 Kīlauea eruption. The resolution and accompanying bill will allow the County to enter into a grant agreement with HUD and appropriate the funds. On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the County Housing Agency voted in favor of authorizing the County to enter into the grant agreement.
The grant will fund a Voluntary Housing Buyout Program and Housing Relocation Services Program as identified in the County’s CDBG-DR Action Plan that HUD approved in October 2020 following a public comment period.