'Building common ground' housing event travels to Kauai on Wednesday, Nov. 12

News Release from Grassroot Institute

The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice have teamed up with the Rice Street Business Association on Kauai to host a free housing presentation in Lihue on Nov. 12.

The seminar, “Building common ground: Expanding housing in Hawaii,” will feature remarks from Hawaii Rep. Luke Evslin of Kauai, chair of the state Legislature’s House Committee on Housing, and Kauaʻi County Council member KipuKai Kualiʻi, who leads the Council’s committee on Housing and Intergovernmental Relations.

In October, Evslin was the featured speaker at a similar event in Honolulu, also hosted by Grassroot and Hawai‘i Appleseed.

The Kauai version of this special collaboration will take place Wednesday, Nov. 12, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Hale Lihue, 4286 Rice St.

Admission is free.

Besides Evslin and Kualiʻi, other presenters will be Ted Kefalas, Grassroot’s director of strategic campaigns, and Arjuna Heim, Hawaiʻi Appleseed’s director of research and housing policy, both of whom also presented at the Honolulu event.

Kefalas will talk about how to facilitate more agricultural workforce housing in the islands; Heim will explain why inclusionary zoning hasn't worked quite the way its supporters had hoped.

For more information, go here, or please call Sean Mitsui of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii at 808-864-1776, or email info@grassrootinstitute.org.