An audit underway of the state’s tiny home initiative for the homeless, mandated by lawmakers after a Civil Beat investigation uncovered significant flaws in the program’s accounting, has found deficiencies that warrant “immediate attention by those in governance.”
In a letter addressed to legislators and the state’s human services director Monday, Auditor Les Kondo explained why he was raising early alarm bells about the kauhale initiative and payments to HomeAid Hawai‘i that have cost taxpayers nearly $40 million so far, some of which he said was spent with little public oversight and weak internal controls.
