[CPEO-MEF] HOUSING, PESTICIDES: Military families sue developer at Kaneohe Marine Base (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated Dirt Triggers Military Housing Lawsuit
It started with four plaintiffs, but a judge will decide if families'  
claims at Kaneohe Marine Corps Base can become a class-action  
proceeding.

By Ian Lind
Honolulu Civil Beat (HI)
June 18, 2014·
A federal judge in Honolulu will decide next week whether a potential  
class-action lawsuit against Forest City, the private developer of  
residential  housing at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe, can go  
forward.

Forest City Enterprises, based in Cleveland, entered into a private- 
public partnership with the U.S. Navy in 2004 to increase the amount  
of on-base military housing, and to allow the military itself to get  
out of the housing business. Its partnership, Ohana Military  
Communities LLC, was then awarded a lucrative 50-year contract to  
renovate or replace thousands of existing homes and apartments at  
MCBH, and to serve as the leasing agent for the properties over the  
extended life of the contract.

A Forest City subsidiary then took over management of eight different  
neighborhoods on the Kaneohe base, as well as other areas serving  
both Navy and Marine Corps personnel.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/06/hawaii-monitor-handling-of- 
contaminated-dirt-triggers-military-housing-lawsuit/

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Lenny Siegel
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