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Friday, June 27, 2025
Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???
By Video @ 3:51 PM :: 610 Views :: Maui County, Development

Lahaina Maui HI - DRONE Update - June 2025 - Is there ANY Progress ???

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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Inflexible policies continue to hinder Lahaina wildfire recovery
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:38 PM :: 495 Views :: Maui County, Development

... almost two years after the fires, fewer than two dozen homes have been rebuilt ....

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Thursday, June 26, 2025
'Self-Certification' to Bypass DPP Delays
By News Release @ 3:33 PM :: 407 Views :: Honolulu County, Development

... online registration is now open for DPP's new Self-Certification Professional (SCP) Program ....

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Bills that passed the Lege now on the edge
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:18 AM :: 380 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement

... SB66, which would create a permitting “shot clock” and allow third-party permit approval if the 60-day processing deadline is not met; and HB126, which would reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture process ....

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Lahaina fire rebuild will be complete in 2038 at current pace
By Selected News Articles @ 4:56 PM :: 516 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics

... Maui is averaging just under 21 approved permits per month ....

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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
By Selected News Articles @ 12:10 AM :: 736 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... with just $489 left over each month after covering essential living expenses, residents are left with little room to save ....

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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Bubble: Investors Flood Into Hawaii Housing Market
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 1116 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living

... in Hawaii investor buyers outnumber investor sellers more than any other state .... 

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Monday, June 9, 2025
Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 1454 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism

... The Lahaina fire is an opportunity to exploit.  The hotel unions and the hotels want the TVR business all for themselves ....

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Friday, June 6, 2025
Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:47 PM :: 589 Views :: Energy, Development

... regulations that allow community groups to essentially kill projects after they’ve been approved are the biggest hurdles to clear ....

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Thursday, June 5, 2025
Lawsuit Alleges More Affordable Housing Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 3:45 AM :: 972 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development

“The height restriction … is wrongfully preventing Honuaʻula from completing the construction of an approved affordable housing project…"

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Guilty on All Counts: Big Island Affordable Housing Fraudsters
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 PM :: 910 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development

... Sulla is set to be sentenced on October 21, Zamber on October 7, and Budhabhatti on October 8 ....

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Monday, May 26, 2025
Bill 47: Hawaii County Developers to Build TVR Subdivisions
By Selected News Articles @ 8:27 PM :: 1361 Views :: Hawaii County , Development, Tourism

... could potentially open up a huge legal can of worms based on historical layers of fraud, mislabeling and mishandling of so-called "Ag" land ....

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Saturday, May 24, 2025
VIDEO: Honolulu Rail--We're not going to do THAT Again
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 837 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail

... promises are not guarantees, and that big government projects tend to come with unexpected costs and delays ....

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Friday, May 23, 2025
Grassroot Council Testimony: Cutting Red Tape to Build Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:55 PM :: 671 Views :: Hawaii County , Kauai County, Maui County, Development, Small Business

... testimony before Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Kaua‘i and Maui county councils or planning commissions ....

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Friday, May 23, 2025
Audit: How to Speed up Building Permits
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:43 PM :: 757 Views :: Hawaii County , Development

... a new report from the county’s Office of the County Auditor suggests more than two dozen ways to help speed up the process ....

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Friday, May 23, 2025
Hawaii: Where Clean Energy Projects Go to Die
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:31 PM :: 1119 Views :: Energy, Development, Land Use

... Over the past five years, 15 energy projects in the state have been cancelled — more than half of the power projects being considered ....

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Study: More Housing Units Built-But Fewer Available for Residents
By News Release @ 8:38 PM :: 949 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Land Use, Cost of Living

... 64,490 additional units are needed through 2027 but only 13,471 units are currently in development pipelines and anticipated to be available by 2027 .... 

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Honolulu Ranks #3 in U.S. for Micro-Housing — New Study Finds
By Selected News Articles @ 5:48 PM :: 872 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... 11.6% of Honolulu rentals are under 348 square feet ....

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Monday, May 19, 2025
Cleaning up Hawaii’s permitting mess
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:33 PM :: 849 Views :: Development

... A new report from the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization shows that Hawaii permit delays in 2024 were at some of the worst levels ever ....

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Friday, May 16, 2025
Hawaii governor defends emergency housing powers at state Supreme Court
By Court House News @ 5:46 AM :: 1363 Views :: Maui County, Development, Homelessness, Cost of Living

... a case challenging Governor Josh Green's use of emergency powers to address the state's affordable housing crisis ....

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
UHERO: 75% of Hawaii Households Cannot Afford Mortgage
By UHERO @ 4:21 PM :: 1354 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... The pace of new housing construction remains historically low. Housing permitting times continue to be long, especially in Honolulu and Maui ....

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Legislature Delivers Progress for Housing
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:35 PM :: 792 Views :: Maui County, Development, Taxes

“I want him to sign the historic review bills, the impact fee bill, the permit bill.”

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Sunday, May 11, 2025
Grassroot: Akina gives Legislature a 'B-'
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:18 PM :: 1019 Views :: Maui County, Development, Taxes

... SB1296 will allow most Lahaina residents in the area’s Special Management Area to rebuild without having to go through the burdensome SMA permitting process ....

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Sunday, May 11, 2025
Peeling away regulations that hinder homebuilding
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:06 PM :: 1144 Views :: Maui County, Development

... rebuilding Lahaina ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
​Hawaii County Tells Homeowner His 38-Year-Old House Is Actually Illegal
By Selected News Articles @ 2:25 PM :: 2055 Views :: Hawaii County , Development

... Ausman is not quite out of the woods yet ....

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Monday, May 5, 2025
Mayor establishes new Department of Housing and Land Management with City Council’s blessing
By News Release @ 1:28 PM :: 1740 Views :: Honolulu County, Development

... strategic reorganization to centralize and accelerate the City’s housing initiatives ....

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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Legislature on a housing-reform streak
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 1:00 PM :: 994 Views :: Development, Land Use

... Bills that will help mitigate Hawaii’s housing crisis include ....

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Monday, April 28, 2025
‘Empty Homes Tax’ Drives Rent up 37%
By Andrew Walden @ 1:40 PM :: 5359 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Taxes, Cost of Living

... Even the bill’s supporters don’t pretend rents will come down ....

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Saturday, April 26, 2025
Resolutions a sign that legislators are listening
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:39 PM :: 1036 Views :: Ethics, Development, Hawaii State Government

... fiscal notes and building codes ....

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Monday, April 21, 2025
SB1296: Apply rebuilding waivers to all Lahaina fire victims
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 9:09 PM :: 971 Views :: Maui County, Development

...  SB1296 seeks to exempt buildings anywhere in Hawaii destroyed by a disaster from needing a Special Management Area permit to rebuild ....

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Sunday, April 13, 2025
WSJ: Lahaina's Lessons for Los Angeles
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:03 PM :: 1159 Views :: Maui County, Development

... how intractable regulations have delayed rebuilding in Lahaina ....

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Lahaina Ferry Pier Rebuild Named Best of 2024
By News Release @ 2:46 PM :: 1413 Views :: Maui County, Development

... Maui’s Lahaina Small Boat Harbor Ferry Pier Improvements was named one of the most significant construction projects of 2024 ....

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
10 reasons Lahaina rebuilding has been so depressingly slow
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 1372 Views :: Maui County, Development

... only 341 permits to rebuild have been issued as of the end of March 2025, and only eight homes have been completed ....

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Saturday, April 5, 2025
Turns out you can fight city hall — and win!
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:29 PM :: 1076 Views :: Hawaii County , Development

... Ausman sued Hawai‘i County’s Board of Appeals after finding himself in the strange position of owning a beach house in Milolii that he couldn’t live in or renovate ....

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Green Appoints Water Commissioner and Circuit Court Judges
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 1861 Views :: Hawaii County , Maui County, Development, Judiciary, Land Use

... Governor Green has nominated three Circuit Court Judges in the Circuit Court of the Third Circuit and Hannah Kihalani Springer to the Commission on Water Resource Management ....

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Sunday, March 30, 2025
VIDEO: Progress in reducing housing regulations
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:17 PM :: 967 Views :: Development

... conversation between Ted Kefalas, the Grassroot Institute director of strategic campaigns, and state Rep. Lauren Matsumoto on the March 11 episode of “The Right Side” radio show ....

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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Lahaina: Still waiting for permits
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 1228 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

... he’s paying a mortgage on an empty lot and watching his resources drain away while waiting for permits and approvals to rebuild ....

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Friday, March 21, 2025
Lahaina: "Feelings of conspiracy and mistrust"
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 PM :: 1479 Views :: Maui County, Development, Land Use

... It’s a situation formed by both negligence and design ....

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Surfing the environmental permitting bureaucracy in Hawaii
By News Release @ 1:12 PM :: 1261 Views :: Environment, Development, Land Use

... promising policies, such as those mentioned in a new CEI report, may signal Hawaii is headed in a new direction in regulating its permitting system ....

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Monday, March 17, 2025
Hawaii 204 Condo Projects Blacklisted by Fannie Mae
By Selected News Articles @ 8:49 PM :: 2059 Views :: Maui County, Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living

... Hawaii's 204 blacklisted condo projects make us 4th-worst in USA.  Since the other top states are much larger, Hawaii probably has the most blacklisted condo units per capita ....

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Monday, March 17, 2025
Lahaina Housing: ‘Yes in God’s Backyard’
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:44 AM :: 1114 Views :: Maui County, Development, Religion

... members of the Pukalani Community Church of the Nazarene  spent eight months building four homes for residents displaced by Maui’s August 2023 wildfires ....

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Sunday, March 16, 2025
Grassroot Bills Alive After Crossover
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:35 PM :: 1105 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes

... March 6, marked the halfway point of the Hawaii's 2025 legislative session, which is when the bills that are still alive cross over from the House chamber to the Senate and vice versa ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
HB422: Let’s close the book on school impact fees
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:59 PM :: 789 Views :: Education K-12, Development

... HB422 would abolish the school impact fee program and transfer its balance to the School Facilities Special Fund ....

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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Grassroot: Highs and Lows of 2025 legislative session at halfway point
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:48 PM :: 997 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Small Business, Taxes

... The Hawaii Legislature has reached its halfway point and many promising bills in the areas of housing, taxation and economic freedom are still alive ....

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Construction Defect Litigation, Housing Affordability, and Homeownership in Hawai‘i
By UHERO @ 4:14 PM :: 1012 Views :: Development, Judiciary, Cost of Living

... litigation is becoming an increasingly significant source of uncertainty and risk in Hawai‘i’s housing market ....

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Hounded by Enviros, Rodrigues Withdraws as Water Nominee
By News Release @ 4:04 PM :: 883 Views :: Development, Hawaii State Government, Land Use

... control of water is the enviros new tool to block affordable housing and force you out of Hawaii ....

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Friday, March 7, 2025
“It’s becoming harder and harder for the working person who doesn’t own a home yet just to rent a place to live”
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:16 PM :: 2551 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living

“...Hawaii doesn’t have a scarcity of land. We build housing and urban development on only 5% of the land mass....”

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Kewalo: Gather to celebrate the death of bill SB 534
By News Release @ 2:43 PM :: 1280 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Development, OHA

... OHA introduced three failed bills SB534, HB605, and SB211 this legislative session ....

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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Shelter for Mentally Ill Homeless at Center of Iwilei TOD Plan
By News Release @ 2:13 PM :: 1261 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Homelessness, Rail

... especially for homeless individuals with a history of mental health, memory or brain injury challenges ....

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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Grassroot: State's school impact fees earn 'F'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:27 PM :: 1120 Views :: Education K-12, Development, Taxes

... The report says the fees are not needed, are likely unconstitutional, have never been spent, and are driving up Hawaii housing costs ....

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