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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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Eleven Years Later: Bridge Aina Lea Affordable Housing Developer Loses Lawsuit
By News Release @ 6:49 AM :: 2014 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... this is what happens if you try to build affordable housing in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Biden Mandates Project Labor Agreements, 73% of Contractors will Stop Bidding
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 1488 Views :: Development, Labor
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... Seventy-three percent of surveyed firms report they are currently bidding on federal construction projects valued at $35 million or more. Yet the same percentage, 73 percent, report they would not bid on those projects if a project labor agreement were required....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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How to Make Housing Affordable in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:45 PM :: 2408 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hint: It's not because of “empty homes,” short-term rentals, “outside investors” or other distractions ....
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Saturday, May 28, 2022 |
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Navy Contractor: Piping Repairs Key to any Red Hill Solution
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 1662 Views :: Environment, Development, Military
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... It just so happens that these repairs are also the repairs needs to continue using the facility. What a coincidence! ....
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Monday, May 16, 2022 |
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Auditor: Maui Building Permits Delayed for Months in Spite of 30-Day Mandate
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 1884 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... Since the reviewing agencies are diverse and have their own priorities, it is not unusual that substantial delays are caused when these other agencies do not timely process applications ....
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Saturday, May 7, 2022 |
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Audit: Caldwell Admin Signed off on ‘Deficient’ Building Permits for Three Years
By Andrew Walden @ 10:06 PM :: 3108 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Is there a public safety hazard? DPP’s Michael Silva can’t say ....
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Monday, May 2, 2022 |
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Legislature Burns $1B on 'Affordable Housing'
By News Release @ 5:47 PM :: 2758 Views :: DHHL, Development, Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... Housing bills that will be sent to the Governor for his signature include ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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VIDEO: Can Youth Solve Hawaii Housing Crisis?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:38 PM :: 1872 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Gen-Xers and millennials are “the most viscerally affected by the cost of housing and forced to leave the state to pursue a life elsewhere” ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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Red Hill fuel cleanup could require more tax dollars than allocated
By Selected News Articles @ 4:00 PM :: 2148 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Military
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... More than $1 billion is being poured into the defueling and cleanup efforts connected to the Red Hill fuel storage facility in Hawaii, but one lawmaker said more money is needed ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System is LIVE
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1605 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Saturday, April 16, 2022 |
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UHERO is my new housing policy hero
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:56 PM :: 2202 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Delays, zoning rules and a long pathway to approval make homebuilding difficult and expensive ....
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Thursday, April 14, 2022 |
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VIDEO: Measuring the Burden of Housing Regulation in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 6:44 AM :: 2114 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... One of the factors that may explain Hawaii’s high home prices are government regulations that limit the ability of the housing market to create the units necessary to meet demand ....
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Monday, April 4, 2022 |
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Justice Department Alleges Disability Discrimination in Hawaii Condos
By News Release @ 4:33 PM :: 1685 Views :: Development
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... alleging that 14 entities designed and constructed five condominium and apartment complexes in Hawaii without accessible features required by the Fair Housing Act ....
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Saturday, March 19, 2022 |
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HB1837 HD1 a good vehicle for identifying Hawaii housing barriers
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:44 PM :: 1696 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... first step toward identifying the regulatory barriers that restrain homebuilding in Hawaii and has led to the state’s notoriously high cost of housing ....
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Sunday, March 13, 2022 |
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Can we please try some housing policies that work, like the ‘Tokyo model’?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:18 PM :: 2469 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii had robust housing construction up until about 1972 or 1973, but then it collapsed and it has never recovered ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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'Tokyo Model' Can Create More Housing for Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:00 PM :: 2327 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... how Tokyo’s deregulation of its housing market resulted in more housing availability and affordable housing prices ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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Maui’s Automated Planning and Permitting System to launch April 18
By News Release @ 10:00 AM :: 1768 Views :: Maui County, Development
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... a new, web-based software designed to support planning and permit processing ....
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Sunday, February 13, 2022 |
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America’s Rising Housing Prices
By Selected News Articles @ 3:27 AM :: 2265 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... In 1961, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to pass a growth-management law. ...
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Sunday, February 6, 2022 |
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ALOHA Homes: Unintended Consequences
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:49 PM :: 1832 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... the ALOHA homes program as currently envisioned in this bill would result in an expensive, nonsustainable government project that would fail to effectively assist those it is intended to help ....
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Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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SB2242 Hikes both income and capital gains taxes
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:46 AM :: 3842 Views :: Development, Small Business, Taxes
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... thus raising the state’s top income tax rate from 11% to 13% ....
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Monday, January 31, 2022 |
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“11th Hour” changes could jeopardize property rights of Kahoma Village residents
By News Release @ 10:28 PM :: 2678 Views :: Maui County, Development
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..."I am always concerned by any piece of legislation that is not signed by Corporation Counsel...." -- Mayor Victorino
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Saturday, January 29, 2022 |
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Blangiardi Exempts Affordable rentals from GE Tax
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 2764 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes
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... New incentives approved to spur development of affordable rentals ....
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Saturday, January 8, 2022 |
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Hotel moratorium bill: Maui Council Overrides Veto
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 3371 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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“If we don’t provide the right type of visitor accommodations in the right places, we could see an influx of vacation rentals in our residential neighborhoods."
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Thursday, January 6, 2022 |
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Statewide Historic Preservation Plan to be Updated
By News Release @ 3:02 AM :: 1956 Views :: Development, Land Use, OHA
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... The first meeting is scheduled for 5:30-8:30 PM, Friday, January 14 ....
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Monday, October 25, 2021 |
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Budget crisis not needed to solve housing crisis
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:35 PM :: 2388 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Land Use
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... These are suggestions that are broadly supported and would require little if any taxpayer investment ....
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Saturday, October 23, 2021 |
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City to hold hearings on new affordable housing rules
By News Release @ 2:09 PM :: 2149 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Cost of Living
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... DPP will hold two public hearings to gather community input on the newly proposed measures ....
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Sunday, August 8, 2021 |
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A Policy Statement About Fines
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3199 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Law Enforcement
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... Bill 17 would allow the city’s Department of Planning and Permitting to record liens against property and then to foreclose on the liens....
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 |
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White House Touts 'Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act' for Hawaii
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 3161 Views :: National News, Development, Rail
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"...For decades, infrastructure in Hawaii has suffered from a systemic lack of investment...."
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino vetoes hotel construction moratorium bill
By News Release @ 10:48 PM :: 2820 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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"... concerned about unintended consequences such as pushing hospitality developments into communities outside of Maui’s resort areas ...."
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Monday, July 19, 2021 |
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Next Boondoggle: USACE, City of Honolulu Sign Agreement for Ala Wai Flood Study
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 3488 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Military
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... The signing allows USACE and the City and County of Honolulu to develop a salespitch that appears to balance costs and environmental impacts ....
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Monday, July 12, 2021 |
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NASA: Moon Wobble to Cause Coastal Flooding
By Selected News Articles @ 11:02 PM :: 4477 Views :: Environment, World News, Development, Land Use
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... But don't worry. We are still going to blame global warming ....
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino to reserve additional water source allocation for affordable housing
By News Release @ 3:17 AM :: 2278 Views :: Maui County, Development
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“...I am prioritizing our resident workforce as the first beneficiaries of this water to motivate construction of right-priced housing as soon as possible....”
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Sunday, June 20, 2021 |
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State Supreme Court: With Environmentalism Anybody Can Veto Affordable Housing
By Robert Thomas @ 4:54 AM :: 4899 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Development, Greenmail, Judiciary, Land Use
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... Anyone Claiming That An Affordable Housing Project Might Impact Their Property Interests In A "Clean And Healthful Environment" Has Standing To Object ....
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021 |
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DOJ: Chinese Money Laundering Buys Big Island Properties
By News Release @ 12:50 PM :: 4113 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Law Enforcement
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... routed the proceeds of these schemes through at least six pieces of real estate on the Island of Hawaii ....
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Saturday, June 12, 2021 |
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FBI Raids Lead to Shakeup at Planning Commission?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:58 PM :: 5555 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Federal authorities, March 30, 2021, unsealed indictments charging six DPP employees in a bribery scheme going back as far as 2012. Challacombe had been Deputy Director of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting from 2013-2016, and then Acting Director in 2016-17 ....
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Friday, May 28, 2021 |
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OHA seeking Development Consultant for commercial properties
By News Release @ 7:24 PM :: 2158 Views :: Development, OHA
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... The selected individual or firm is expected to have an initial focus on select parcels located at Kakaʻako Makai and an eventual focus on parcels at OHA’s Nā Lama Kukui Lifestyle & Design Center in Iwilei ....
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Friday, May 14, 2021 |
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Everyone wants affordable housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:38 PM :: 2733 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... We want a Hawaii where everyone who wants to buy a home can buy one in their price range ....
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 |
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The affordable housing trap - Mandates can't create more housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:16 PM :: 2820 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... why housing prices have soared statewide and why affordability mandates won’t have the desired results ....
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Saturday, May 8, 2021 |
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Mayor Victorino Bill 10 Veto Upheld, Saves Affordable Housing
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 5526 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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"... In theory, Bill 10 would require more affordable housing to be built, but in reality, history has shown that such additional restrictions have the opposite effect ....”
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Friday, May 7, 2021 |
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Creating Facts on the Ground: Stadium Authority Rushes Decision to Demolish Aloha Stadium
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 4180 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Rail, Tourism
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... In a special Stadium Authority Board Meeting this morning (Thursday, May 6), the Board confirmed and voted for an early demolition of the existing stadium location ....
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Friday, April 30, 2021 |
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Locals Worry Wind and Solar Will Gobble Up Forests and Farms
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 3292 Views :: Energy, Environment, Development
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... locals are pushing back, saying that forests and farmlands should not be sacrificed in the fight against climate change ....
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 |
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Red tape hurts Maui housing
By Video @ 6:06 AM :: 3206 Views :: Maui County, Development, Cost of Living
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... Maui County Councilmember Yuki Lei Sugimura discusses with Grassroot Institute president Keli’i Akina the detrimental impact such a well-intentioned but wrong-headed policy might have on affordable housing ....
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Friday, April 23, 2021 |
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How high housing prices are encouraging residents to leave Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:57 AM :: 3566 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... How to make housing affordable and help stop the exodus ....
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Thursday, April 15, 2021 |
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After Kaka'ako Makai Debacle: 'OHA Shall Seek Decision Making Influence over All Land in Hawai'i'
By Andrew Walden @ 6:08 AM :: 4640 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, Land Use, OHA
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... OHA shall promote the idea that every property in Hawai'i is sacred and pursue initiatives that help achieve a broad acceptance of this truth ....
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Friday, April 9, 2021 |
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Maui Beware!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:48 PM :: 4251 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... This would give Maui the second most restrictive affordable-housing law in the country ....
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Wednesday, March 31, 2021 |
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Feds Bust Six in DPP Bribery Scheme
By Selected News Articles @ 1:04 AM :: 7198 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development
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... Federal corruption probe targets DPP staffers and one local architect ....
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Friday, March 19, 2021 |
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Grassroot Institute Legislative Update
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:55 AM :: 3674 Views :: Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government, Taxes, COVID-19
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... Hawaii's Legislature is about halfway through its 2021 session, and if we're lucky, the good will outweigh the bad when it's over ....
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021 |
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Kaka'ako Makai: House Will Not Hear OHA Upzone Bill
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 3200 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, OHA
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" ... Senator Moriwaki and I will attempt to work with OHA to explore alternatives to developing Kakaʻako Makai ...."
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