PAL’s unflinching mission is to create permanently affordable housing and keep longtime residents from leaving. Our strategy is to place our projects into our Ho’omaluhia Community Land Trust so they are permanently affordable for eight generations and beyond. Our values align with traditional Hawaiian mana’o (wisdom) that land is stewarded by the community, not owned for personal gain.

When developing our projects, we don’t just plan for affordable housing, we plan for affordable living. True affordability includes all basic needs — food, utilities, transportation, healthcare, and employment. Our projects are designed to make these essential components accessible through location, amenities, education, and service enrichment. We use development concepts that lower construction costs, enable long-term affordability, and enhance community sustainability.

Success is 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.