A Bold and Simple Solution

BUILDING OHANA sees the challenges — housing shortages, social divisions, isolation, and overburdened systems of service across every area of need. We also see a bold solution, one that taps the power of home and neighborhood and the relationships within to create healthy, inclusive community and to bridge the gaps that divide us. The recipe is in OHANA, and its three simple ingredients:

OHANA Village.
A  community founded on intentional neighboring and the power of the people next door.

We are all different and we all have something to contribute, no matter our age, ability or background.

Home and Neighborhood. Planfully designed for health, accessibility and daily connection. Built with belonging in mind.

Family and beyond
Family and Beyond

OHANA

The Hawaiian word for family — including and beyond those people we are related to by blood and ancestry — the people who help us to be our very best selves. In OHANA Village, these people will be our neighbors, our friends, the ones we see daily, talk to, share life with. They will be the ones we help and who will help us when caring friendship and support is most needed. OHANA will be an old-fashioned neighborhood revitalized and made new — a neighborhood where everyone belongs.

About Us

We are pioneering new ways to build inclusive communities

Join Us

Everyone is invited to help us create OHANA

Your friendship, your ideas, your expertise, your support…all are welcome!

Ohana connected

I’ve been dreaming of a neighborhood of mutual support since Joshua was eleven years old. Imagining a community that engaged with him and with our family, friends next door who didn’t look away when we were struggling, who understood that knowing my son who cannot speak or walk would enrich their lives. I’ve drawn this neighborhood a thousand times in my head, on scrap paper, on napkins. Imagined these people. It’s OHANA.

PamMother of Joshua and Envision OHANA participant 2016
People. Purpose. Place.

Help us create a community where everyone is valued. Where everyone contributes. Where everyone belongs.