Hawaii housing has been expensive for decades, but only in the last few years have pricey dwellings set off a population decline
Now, amid growing urgency, both the governor and Hawaii's legislative leaders are making housing a top priority.
Determined to find solutions, a college student taking a break during COVID-19 and a recent college graduate co-founded a nonprofit advocacy organization calledto lobby on the issue. Nearly 1,500 people have signed their pledge to back more housing. “There’s not a great effort to preserve Hawaiian values if you don’t have Hawaiians. In other words, who’s going to transmit these values? Who is going to teach these values?” he said.
“We don’t want to just build, build, build and then all of a sudden we don’t know how we’re going to feed ourselves when the climate crisis shuts down our harbors or dries up the places where we import our food from,” Tanaka said.
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