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Friday, May 21, 2021 |
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Hawaii Is Replacing Its Last Coal Plant With a ‘Giant Battery’—Powered by Oil
By Selected News Articles @ 8:13 PM :: 4418 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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... The revelation that the Kapolei Energy Storage Facility will be powered with oil caused an uproar at a recent meeting, but the project is slated to continue ....
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Friday, May 14, 2021 |
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Everyone wants affordable housing
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:38 PM :: 2833 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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Thursday, May 13, 2021 |
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Stung by PUC, HECO Releases 'Customer Energy Resources Strategy'
By News Release @ 4:45 PM :: 2829 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Cost of Living
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"... to increase rooftop solar and similar customer energy resources to the scale needed to reach the state’s clean energy benchmarks ...."
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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 :: 2924 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 :: 5679 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, April 30, 2021 |
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Maui, Kona Rental Car Rates Top $900/wk
By News Release @ 12:15 AM :: 4052 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Tourism, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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... Kahului, Hawaii, is the most expensive U.S. destination in which to rent a car this spring ....
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 |
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Red tape hurts Maui housing
By Video @ 6:06 AM :: 3320 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 :: 3655 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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Friday, April 23, 2021 |
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FEMA Rate Hike Socks 87% of Hawaii Flood Insurance Policyholders
By News Release @ 3:47 AM :: 3064 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Under FEMA's Risk Rating 2.0 system, the cost of flood insurance will increase ....
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 |
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Hawaii most expensive state for energy bills
By News Release @ 9:09 PM :: 3151 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... the average monthly energy bill comes to $321 ....
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 |
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Hawaii Most Expensive State for Household Bills
By Selected News Articles @ 7:56 PM :: 2974 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... The cost of bills in Hawaii totals an average of $2,731 per month, 44.6% higher than the national average ....
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Monday, April 19, 2021 |
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Hawaii Highest Electric Rates in USA
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 3447 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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“...When the government inserts itself into markets, taxpayers often foot the bill....”
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Friday, April 9, 2021 |
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Maui Beware!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:48 PM :: 4394 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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Sunday, March 28, 2021 |
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Which Hawaii Towns Have Most Overleveraged Mortgage Debtors?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 AM :: 3287 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 11 of 16 Hawaii towns are in the top 10% of most overextended mortgage borrowers ....
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Monday, March 22, 2021 |
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Doctors' Pay? Hawaii Ranks 47th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:04 PM :: 3379 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii has the 5th lowest Avg. Annual Wage for Physicians (adj for cost of living) ....
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 |
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Former Hawaii doctor tells why he moved to the mainland
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:39 PM :: 6006 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... I have a 5,000-square-foot, five-bedroom house on half an acre with a view that stretches to a river, and that house costs me $539,000 ....
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Saturday, March 20, 2021 |
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How to worsen our doctor shortage
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:15 AM :: 2978 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii is down by more than 1,000 physicians, with no prospect of the situation improving ....
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Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
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How 'Affordable' Housing rules often result in no homebuilding
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:04 AM :: 4253 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... A Maui bill to increase affordability requirements is the backdrop for a discussion on how current housing policy can be improved ....
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Saturday, February 27, 2021 |
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ALOHA Homes: Unintended Consequences
By Grassroot Institute @ 8:17 PM :: 3312 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... the ALOHA homes program as currently envisioned in SB1 likely would result in an expensive, non-sustainable government project that would fail ....
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Friday, February 26, 2021 |
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Good intentions not a great foundation for building houses
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:22 PM :: 2898 Views :: Maui County, Cost of Living
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... Instead of creating more affordable homes, they reduce development and cause prices to go up ....
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Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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How Minimum Wage Worker Makes $72K
By News Release @ 3:35 PM :: 3460 Views :: Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... in Full-Service Restaurants, most workers who earn minimum wage receive significantly more compensation in tips ....
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Monday, February 22, 2021 |
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Hawaii: 4,619 residents moved out between 2018 and 2019
By Selected News Articles @ 1:22 PM :: 2871 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Where They Moved To: California, Texas and Washington ....
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 |
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Four Bills to Make Housing More Affordable
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:06 AM :: 2753 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... lift zoning restrictions that hamper creative solutions to the lack of affordable housing ....
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Thursday, January 28, 2021 |
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Labor unions push lawmakers to drop GET on groceries
By News Release @ 2:51 AM :: 3790 Views :: Labor, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... ILWU, Teamsters, IATSE, UFCW ....
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Saturday, January 23, 2021 |
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Friday, January 22, 2021 |
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Hawaii Ranked 'Worst State to Drive in'
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 PM :: 3085 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... gas prices to rush-hour traffic congestion to road quality ....
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021 |
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Honolulu #1 -- Most Unaffordable Home Ownership in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 2551 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu is the only city where mortgages have taken up more than 40% of homeowners’ incomes in 2010, as well as in 2015 and 2020 ....
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021 |
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Hawaii Best-paying States for Nurses--But Still 8th Worst Housing Hours Worked
By Selected News Articles @ 11:30 AM :: 3284 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... 33 Hours worked to afford median rent for nurses -- Hawaii ranks 43rd ....
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Monday, January 18, 2021 |
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Hawaii Cost of Living Nearly Double US Average
By News Release @ 7:15 PM :: 4168 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii Cost of Living Index is 196.3--the US Average is 100 ....
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Monday, January 18, 2021 |
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Hawaii: Lifetime Cost of Smoking $2.9M
By Selected News Articles @ 2:53 AM :: 2773 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... potential monetary losses — including both the lifetime and annual cost of a cigarette pack per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs ....
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Sunday, January 17, 2021 |
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Barreling Toward a Tax Hike!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 4041 Views :: Energy, Hawaii State Government, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... “the carbon tax” is most likely the “barrel tax” ....
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021 |
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Which Hawaii Towns Have Worst Credit Card Debt?
By Selected News Articles @ 11:00 AM :: 3229 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 8 of 16 Hawaii towns are among the worst 10% credit card debtors in USA ....
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Thursday, December 24, 2020 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: PUC Approves New Battery Incentive Scheme for HECO
By News Release @ 9:07 PM :: 3705 Views :: Energy, Environment, Cost of Living
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... Ratepayer money will be shoveled to Elon Musk to buy batteries ....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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Report: Oahu affordable housing shortage worsened in FY 2019
By News Release @ 11:52 PM :: 3174 Views :: Honolulu County, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... DPP has released its Annual Report on the status of land use on O‘ahu for fiscal year ending 2019 ....
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020 |
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DHHL Receives Approval for Pilot Down Payment Program
By News Release @ 2:01 AM :: 2644 Views :: DHHL, Cost of Living
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... an initiative that will provide applicants on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) Waiting List with down payment assistance for a fee-simple residential purchase off Hawaiian Home Lands on Oʻahu ....
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020 |
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Long Term Care: Hawaii Costs Soaring Faster
By News Release @ 2:35 PM :: 3204 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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... Increase in Long Term Care Costs in Hawaii Surpass National Trends; COVID-19 Pressures Future Costs ....
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Saturday, November 21, 2020 |
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UHERO: Ratepayers Pay $1.15 More for Every $1.00 Saved by Solar Users
By UHERO @ 9:26 PM :: 3279 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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...for every dollar the University saves with on-campus (solar) investments, other customers will pay $1.15 more -- UHERO.....
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020 |
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Saturday, November 14, 2020 |
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Hawaii is the Most Expensive State in America
By Selected News Articles @ 8:29 PM :: 3194 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... groceries +69.3%, transportation +46.6%, utilities +99.4% ....
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Saturday, October 10, 2020 |
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How to stop the exodus
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:04 AM :: 3577 Views :: Economy, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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...Hawaii’s negative migration of the past several years in a row is going to accelerate....
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020 |
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The Affordable Housing Scam
By Selected News Articles @ 4:00 AM :: 5036 Views :: Ethics, Development, Cost of Living
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...well-connected people often found their way to the tops of housing waiting lists while the names of people who really needed affordable housing disappeared....
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Friday, October 2, 2020 |
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Rein in this red-tape rascal
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:02 PM :: 3427 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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...When your state lacks sufficient housing, the last thing you should do is make building a difficult, risky and lengthy process. But that’s exactly what Hawaii has done....
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 |
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More Housing Hawaii Residents Can Afford
By Video @ 4:09 AM :: 3074 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii’s residents need more housing that they can afford. And one of the simplest ways to provide it would be to reform a mysterious organization called the Land Use Commission....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Hawaii Medicare Advantage Premium Drops 10.3% for 2021
By News Release @ 11:55 PM :: 2967 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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...The average monthly Medicare Advantage premium changed from $63.86 in 2020 to $57.28 in 2021. This represents a -10.30 percent change in average premium....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Reform state LUC to encourage more housing, new report says
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:50 AM :: 2922 Views :: Land Use, Cost of Living
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...The state Land Use Commission has strayed from its core mission, leading to fewer homes and higher home prices for Hawaii residents....
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 |
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City Drops $10.5M for 29 Units that were already affordable
By News Release @ 11:43 PM :: 3999 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Cost of Living, COVID-19
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...This purchase adds ZERO new affordable units because these units were already affordable in the private sector....
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020 |
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HECO Releases info on Solar Battery Projects -- Prices Vary by 46%
By News Release @ 8:24 PM :: 2991 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Oahu projects run as high as $0.13 pkwh even as competitors offer $0.089 pkwh ....
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020 |
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Honolulu 4th Most Expensive Metro Area in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 9:07 PM :: 4313 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...but the Big Island is much more affordable....
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Friday, August 7, 2020 |
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$100 Worth Only $84.67 in Hawaii
By Tax Foundation @ 4:21 AM :: 3376 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...What is the Real Value of $100 in Your State?....
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