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Saturday, June 24, 2023 |
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HiDOT Jacks up Airport Parking Fees in Effort to Price You Out
By News Release @ 2:25 PM :: 2427 Views :: Tourism, Cost of Living
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... the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation expects the additional benefit of reduced demand for overnight and multiple-day parking ....
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Thursday, June 22, 2023 |
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Green Pours Millions into Housing
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 PM :: 2302 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... "We are working with our colleagues, possibly in the next couple of weeks, you will see this housing declaration of emergency, similarly to address some of the bottlenecks on housing," Green said. ....
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Hawaii most expensive state to live in
By Selected News Articles @ 5:03 PM :: 2553 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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"... living in Hawaii would require an annual income of at least $80,000 to $100,000 for a single person and around $125,000 to $150,000 for a family ....”
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Honolulu Credit Card Debt Soars
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 PM :: 2390 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu average household credit card debt is $14,927, up by $2,498 ....
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Monday, June 19, 2023 |
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Honolulu Rent Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:11 PM :: 2437 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... #1 Highest Avg Rent in USA: Urban Honolulu, HI $2,514/mo ....
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 |
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Taxes and Cost of Living: Focus Shifts to County Councils
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:57 PM :: 2012 Views :: Development, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... lawmaking continues at the county level ....
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 |
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Want more housing? Why not just cut the red tape?
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:50 PM :: 2035 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Cost of Living
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... address the structural problems in the housing market, namely the strict regulatory environment ....
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 |
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New video tells what the story of Iam Tongi says about Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:13 PM :: 2776 Views :: Cost of Living
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... you shouldn't have to be an "American Idol" winner to be priced back into Hawaii ....
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 |
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Hawaii highest household debt to income ratio
By Selected News Articles @ 9:12 PM :: 1714 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii has the highest debt-to-income ratio of any state at 2.26 ....
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Saturday, June 10, 2023 |
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The Real Value of $100 in Hawaii -- $86.80
By Selected News Articles @ 8:58 PM :: 2226 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... you’ll get a lot more for your money in Mississippi than in Hawaii ....
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Friday, June 2, 2023 |
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Hawaii Highest Electric Rates in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 AM :: 2708 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii clocked in as the most expensive state for electricity, with a 44 cents per kilowatt-hour cost ....
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Friday, June 2, 2023 |
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Hawaii Job Satisfaction 3rd Lowest in USA
By News Release @ 3:39 AM :: 2146 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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... Three Lowest States: Arkansas (2.1), Mississippi (2.3), Hawaii (2.5) ....
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023 |
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Owning a firearm in Hawaii is about to get more expensive
By Selected News Articles @ 4:01 AM :: 2607 Views :: Second Amendment, Cost of Living
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... Recently, state legislators proposed a bill that, if passed, would increase the costs associated with obtaining and carrying a firearm for self-defense ....
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 |
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GET on Health Care
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2369 Views :: Health Care, Military, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... One of the bills in this past legislative session that fell to the cutting room floor when it probably shouldn’t have was Senate Bill 1035, which would have exempted medical services provided by health care providers if the services were paid for by Medicaid, Medicare, or TRICARE ....
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Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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Simpsons in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:49 PM :: 3456 Views :: Cost of Living
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... the Simpsons try to buy a house in Hawaii ....
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Friday, May 26, 2023 |
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Honolulu Among Least Affordable Cities for Home Buyers
By Selected News Articles @ 10:11 PM :: 2010 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Honolulu ranks 280th of 300 overall and 62nd of 68 among large cities ....
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023 |
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'Renewable' Gravy Train End of Line: After Decades, HECO Dumps 'Avoided Cost' Contracts
By News Release @ 12:19 PM :: 2345 Views :: Hawaii County , Energy, Cost of Living
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... The four original contracts were negotiated in the 1990s and 2000s ... a typical residential customer using 500 kilowatts could see savings ranging from $9 to $13 per month ....
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Monday, May 22, 2023 |
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Hawaii Residents Furthest Behind on Retirement Savings
By Selected News Articles @ 4:17 PM :: 2120 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii’s ideal savings benchmark is $1,813,768. But the average retirement fund there contains just $366,776. That’s 80% off the mark ....
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023 |
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HECO Admits De-carbonization Means Rate Hikes
By News Release @ 2:37 AM :: 1989 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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"...Hawaiian Electric’s modeling shows that...energy rates may rise in the near-term transition to clean energy...."
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Monday, May 15, 2023 |
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Honolulu Lowest Starting Salaries in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:45 PM :: 2214 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 2023’s Best & Worst Places to Start a Career ....
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Monday, May 15, 2023 |
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Got $1.5M? You Can Retire in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 AM :: 2258 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii residents can reasonably expect to spend, on average, $1,501,762 over the course of their retirement starting at age 65, the highest amount of all states ....
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 |
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ALICE Hawaii: $104,052 is 'Household Survival Budget'
By News Release @ 3:00 AM :: 2509 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... $104,052 Household Survival Budget drops to $85,812 when CTC (Child Tax Credit) and CDCTC (Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit) are applied ....
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 |
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DOD Implements New Overseas Cost-of-Living Allowance Adjustment Process
By News Release @ 4:19 PM :: 2166 Views :: Military, Cost of Living
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... Many of the locations that we will see initially will be in areas such as Hawaii, Guam, Japan and other locations in the [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] theater ....
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 |
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Worst State for Nurses -- Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 8:00 PM :: 2342 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... Annual Nursing Salary When Adjusted for Cost of Living ....
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 |
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Honolulu: Where You Can Earn Six Figures and Still Be Broke
By Selected News Articles @ 12:00 PM :: 2203 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... in Honolulu, spending on the basics is $865 higher than the monthly income for a family of three that earns $100,000 annually ....
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Monday, April 24, 2023 |
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UHERO: Effect of Eliminating all Short-term vacation rentals?
By UHERO @ 5:30 PM :: 2888 Views :: Tourism, Cost of Living
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... In Waikiki, Lahaina, and Kihei, 10,000s of hotel condo units were built as STRs in the 1980s and 1990s long before anybody ever heard of AirBnB and long before the recent housing inflation. 'Removing all STRs' would include stripping these units of their rights. You are not supposed to notice this fatuous little trick, but now you have ....
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Sunday, April 23, 2023 |
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Wanna know why homebuilders in Hawaii prefer to build mansions?
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:22 PM :: 2943 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... homebuilders say multi-unit projects could be more profitable, but there are just too many rules, regulations and delays to make it worth the effort ....
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 |
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How Much Home You Can Buy for $200K in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 AM :: 2722 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... 300 square feet, smallest in USA ....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
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Fixing Hawaii’s Transportation System; A Dose of the Private Sector Would Help
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:09 AM :: 2494 Views :: Jones Act, Rail, Cost of Living
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... how Hawai'i can reduce the costs and the improve service quality of its various mass transportation systems ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Hawaii Average Monthly Utility Cost $611.87
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 PM :: 4281 Views :: Energy, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii has the highest electricity price, nearly triple the US average rate, and the state relies on imported petroleum for 60% of its electricity generation ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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In Honolulu $100K only worth $36,026
By Selected News Articles @ 6:26 PM :: 3027 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In Honolulu, $100K amounts to just $36,036 when you consider taxes and the cost of living ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Counties must prioritize property tax relief
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:08 PM :: 1678 Views :: Taxes, Cost of Living
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... No one likes the idea of our county governments profiting from Hawaii’s high cost of living. But that’s what is going to happen soon unless we engineer some property tax relief ....
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Saturday, April 8, 2023 |
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Is there relief for rising property taxes on Oahu?
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:53 AM :: 2788 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Akina said Hawaii home prices are sky-high because of the scarcity of housing caused by “all the regulation … that developers and individual home builders have to go through in order to renovate or in order to build.” ....
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Thursday, April 6, 2023 |
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Hawaii Minimum salary needed to be happy: $195,300
By Selected News Articles @ 6:04 AM :: 2492 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... but you can settle for emotional well-being at $111,600 ....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 |
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Rate Hikes Coming: Hawaiian Electric seeks public comment on draft ‘Integrated Grid Plan: A pathway to a clean energy future’
By News Release @ 4:42 AM :: 2327 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... Your rates will be going up to pay for the infrastructure we need to make irregular and erratic wind and solar electricity less damaging to our grid ....
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Monday, April 3, 2023 |
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Priced Out: Millennials Buying Cheapest Homes in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 10:36 PM :: 2464 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... In most US metro areas, millennials are buying homes at prices above the general market. But in Honolulu millennials are buying homes 4.2% below the market average. This is the biggest downside gap in any of the 56 large metros studied ....
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Sunday, April 2, 2023 |
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Is there life after Downtown Walmart?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:47 PM :: 2299 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... adaptive reuse ....
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Friday, March 31, 2023 |
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2017 cesspool law creating a mess for Hawaii property owners
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:39 PM :: 2339 Views :: Development, Cost of Living
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... the state’s mandate to eliminate cesspools is too costly for homeowners ....
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Monday, March 27, 2023 |
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Update Hawaii licensing laws to attract more doctors
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:05 AM :: 2019 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... medical professionals have found Hawaii to be an increasingly uninviting place to practice ....
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Friday, March 17, 2023 |
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Nominee for State Planning Director responsible for Oahu’s High Electricity Costs
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 AM :: 3510 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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... HECO announced a rate increase of 7% to buy more oil ....
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court rejects Big Island bioenergy plant
By Court House News @ 6:08 AM :: 1833 Views :: Environment, Cost of Living
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... Rate hikes and massive amounts of greenhouse gases from a proposed biomass burning power plant would outweigh any benefits, the court found ....
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
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Hawaii has the most expensive gas, nationwide
By Selected News Articles @ 4:19 AM :: 1731 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... over the past year gas prices in Hawaii jumped from $4.57 to $4.88, a 6.8% increase ....
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Sunday, March 12, 2023 |
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Building Vs. Buying: Which Is Cheaper in The Aloha State?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:01 PM :: 2927 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii shines as #1 out of only 18 states where it’s more cost-effective to build rather than buy ....
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Monday, March 6, 2023 |
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Link home exemption to increase in home values
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:05 PM :: 1887 Views :: Honolulu County, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Bill 40’s proposal would increase the home exemption by a mere 10% and the exemption for older individuals by just 7% ....
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 |
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Hawai‘i Would Not be the Same Without Hawaiians
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:50 PM :: 2200 Views :: OHA, Cost of Living
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... more Hawaiians are moving out of Hawaiʻi every year ....
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023 |
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Hawaii’s Housing Shortage Explained
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:08 PM :: 2686 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Housing expert says Hawaii fits pattern of areas losing residents ....
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Monday, February 27, 2023 |
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Priced out of paradise
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:27 PM :: 4704 Views :: Cost of Living
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... Now living in Seattle, Tongi was asked by judge Lionel Richie, “Why on Earth would you leave Hawaii?” ....
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