Several Oahu nonprofits say they have been waiting as long as three years to hear back from the city on their requests to have about $9 million in loans forgiven — money they received to help house residents with special needs, including the homeless, mentally ill and the elderly.
Federal officials pressured the city to offer loan forgiveness to island nonprofits after Honolulu’s Department of Community Services forgave $1.2 million in loans in 2011 that it had given to ORI Anuenue Hale.
ORI was the subject of federal and
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