A Solution to Hawaii's Housing Crisis?
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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I don’t know if everyone watched the whole video but their master plan is to have more properties to lease. Meaning you and your family still won’t own anything.
Unfortunately, that is the only way it will work. If you own it then you can sell it to the highest bidder.
That’s an important point! The best part of buying real estate is to build wealth. My parents originally bought a condo unit for 200K. Years later they paid off the mortgage and used the gains to help us upgrade to a better property to support multi family living. You wouldn’t be able to build that kind of wealth with a leasehold, thus insuring you’ll be stuck in your current situation for life!
Exactly
Um...yeah, look at what happened to the homes that were sold to lower/middle income in Kakaako, the requirement I was 1 year occupancy. The owners just flipped it after 1 year. Right back where you was before
@@beretaniastreet6384 yeah also don’t forget that a lot of buyers in those “low income” properties are gifted a huge down payment from their rich parents.
The state should have always always thought of their own people and finding homes and ways to house them besides Hawaiian homestead land which by the way the homes are being built so cheap they fall apart after the second year with the way the internal Construction is built. Yet instead property is sold to Outsiders from different states or countries acres of land wasted on Outsiders Investments! For Outsiders personal gain.
I am not a local..but toally agree. Locals need to be first no questions end of story. my mother had lived in Oahu back in the 60s and always told me that locals and natives got priority on housing so I grew up thinking I couldn't, which made the Ilands even more special IMO (this might be misinfermation on her part or maybe thats how it was back then). Now as an adult I see its a freaking free for all based soley on MONEY (that no normal person has). no no no! So many only vacation or use the property for BnB stuff, people who live there need the properties!! as much as I'd love to live there, I'm an outsider I respect long term local and natives first!
They should do something like you must live in Hawaii for over 10 to 5 years to able to buy home..
Pretty disgusting 😕
@@e2dwf976 You're not too bright.
@Talking Crypto Homeless and can't find workers in the same sentence. Now you have a solution and don't know it.
There is no solution. Local people can't afford to buy houses so they're moving in droves to the mainland.
There's a thing called the hidden homeless here. Multiple families living in one household. Without that support, there would be so many more homeless families.
I can't help but to understand your point of view. Open minded angle. Shaka brah. Cannot say no moa solution... Cuz get. We just gotta get together and do it. United we stand...ku kanaka!! One by one they all fall down like toy soldiers. E aloha aina!! Imua!!
This is global, it's happening everywhere. Why do you think it's just a problem here?
Example of what happens when you base your entire economy systems on catering to out of towners
You mean example when whites steal your land, your culture and kick you out!
Just Say you don’t know anything about Hawaii’s history
Exactly.
Hawaii needs to become self efficient. Government does not want that . Fruits and vegetables will be shipped ànd sold for a loss . Instead of paying more and buying local ., even the dairy farm closed . Milk shipped here cheaper than what could be produced. Just think if we grew or vegetables and fruits and dairy products inflation would not be so out of control .Need to increase cattle and other livestock . Need to stop people moving here . Home for sale , locals do not buy it . Only then you can move to Hawaii. No more building.
This is why locals have no where to go. These realtors are selling to these and making big commissions. Not right.
Locals need to go to college instead of surfing and basket weaving, then they can afford the land the same as anyone else. Also most well established families leave behind millions of dollars in land. What are they doing with all that money? I'll tell you, they party, then complain they want more.
Locals do go to college but without adequate employment and housing, they stay on the mainland. Heard of the brain drain?
@Wesley Chun Hawaiians are lazy 🤡🤡🤡.
You are probably right!
Nevertheless another way is to stop all foreclosures to all securitized loans foreclosure document fraud corraboration. "Wellsfargo" for instance has engaged in systematic large scale alteration of mortgage notes and complete fabrication of documents in preparation for foreclosures for one. What to do about these frauds? Well you can send a demand letter for their services demanding copies of these mortgage documents or in person. And talk to these guys at the County Records to explain how do all these mortgage fraud works in chronological order?... And if by than you are lucky see if they can modify your loan these are instruments that is meant to keep you and you in your house...
@@wesleychun3058 You don't get it and you never will. I don't even feel sorry you. People with your mentality need to die off and you probably will because when it all hits the fan, there will be nobody to take care of you, not even yourself. You see, I came to Hawaii 20 yrs ago with nothing. Now I have millions of dollars in real estate. If I did it, the locals surely can do it. I'm just a nobody from the midwest. Nobody ever gave me anything. I worked for it.
Should have / could have made a state law , countless years ago . That NO foreigners could buy anything in Hawaii . As well , in any other state in the USA .
Better yet, NOBODY can buy anything in any state, just what the government gives you.
Could just de occupy Hawai'i
The same thing happened in San Francisco and all the residents started being evicted don't sell them to Outsiders because you can never go back
Nah. Not all the residents started being evicted. Not “all the residents started being evicted.” /
Add a 20- 25% sales tax like Vancouver Island does when you buy it and a 20-25% sales tax when you sell it, if not a resident. Plus 10 times the property tax. Can not be used as a vacation rental. Problem solved.
What do you expect will happen, when you pay people under market value for jobs and have a cost of living that’s above the market. people can’t live here. the rich people buy their vacation homes here and everybody loses
New Zealand won't sell any land or property too foreigners..u gotta be a resident...now thats how u keep hawaii in hawaiian hands ...💯
Yes, but the rich can basically buy citizenship in New Zealand either through large lard purchase (ironically), starting a business, or simply stashing enough money in a local bank. Foreign investment is a huge problem in NZ too.
Wrong bro ..they gotta live there and I was told by locals but u show me a pfd too prove ur nonsense
I'll waite ! 🤣🤣
And why would I move to New Zealand, they can't even speak proper English
Stop letting the military rent with a subsidy!! Keep all military on their bases
Rent skyrocketed from $1,200 to $5,000 for the same home.
Forcing many working families with kids still in school to live in vehicles and move between dangerous public parking areas daily...
I hate to say it but it is all over the country, sad for Hawaiians though, it sucks everywhere right now. I hope there is a real peaceful solution very soon, otherwise I fear something akin to the French Revolution will happen. Too many people have been left poor and desperate, that's why crime is up so much. Things weren't perfect last century but it felt so much more humane in the late 20th century than it does now. Tourism was supposed to just be an alternate income source for towns and cities, not a way of life that lead to gentrification of entire cultures. How do you make greed know fear without using violence?
There should be laws banning outside buyers. Keep Hawaii, Hawaii
YUUP NEW ZEALAND IS LIKE THAT 💯
Makes sense for those with 50% Hawaiian blood, as we're "all" outsiders.
Hawaii is no different than any other state except for the fact it is an island in the middle of nowhere. Banning foreign investors is one thing but banning your fellow Americans is very much unamerican. Imagine if the other 49 states banned Hawaiians from buying a home on the mainland then explain to me how that's different from banning residents from other states from owning property in Hawaii.
@@stuwest5862 Huge difference is Hawai'i is under a prolonged military occupation since January 17th 1893. Is Hawai'i the 50th state? Illegally YES It is. Legally NO it's not according to the United nations court.
If Nevada was like that, locals from Hawaii wouldn't be able to buy property in Las Vegas.
Add this to the history books...
Can't afford housing
JUST MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR OUT OF STATE BUYERS AND/OR ANYONE WITHOUT PRIOR RESIDENCE OF ATLEAST 5 YEARS IN THE ISLANDS
Just give the lands back to their owners so the land can heal .... just can't let them go can ya?
.... This is dumb. You have to rent for 5 years before you can buy a house? In no way will this create negative externalities for honest working people whatsoever 🙄
@@ericfredrick3235 some local people go their whole lives renting because they get trapped NEEDING a place to live FAIR IS FAIR
@@ericfredrick3235 and only foreign/out of state investors and people who want to live in hawaii would need to rent for 5 years non consecutive. This would bring the locals forced to move off island back home, and drive housing prices back down.
Make it 20 yrs...
Make it so if you haven't been a resident in Hawaii for 10 or more years you are not allowed to purchase a house.
This is the United States, not Cuba.
Stupid comment
10? Can we do 30? Seems fair to those on the list 30 years for hawaiian homes. But we know how the politics in Hawaii work....a'ole!!
@@miketexas4549 A man is only as rich as his character. That's something money can't buy. No matter how rich you get. Character ain't bought...it's built. Imua o Hawaii!!
@@willpower3317 Nope. Sorry. It's not America either. If Im american then show me the treaty. Not Cuba either. Wrong set of Islands. This is... The Hawaiian Kingdom. Completely different than most would think. But let the truth be told... Use your good willpower and spread the news of " e aloha aina! " We are Hawaii!
This is not an issue that govt needs to get involved with! This is an issue of us selling off our land to the highest bidder! STOP! We don’t need more handouts! We need to learn to compete in the market and compete in this world. Look at Hawaiian homestead. This is the reason we don’t own our own land. 99 year lease that we can’t pass down to the next generation. We sit there in our protected land that we don’t own while everyone buys up the land around us! We have to learn! Otherwise the land will be gone and so will you because you can’t afford to live there. Why are we giving up Hawaii to live in the desert of Vegas. Wtf are we doing!?
$75,000 a year?! 2:31
That's so much...
Awww but my family of four people only makes $28,800 a year... Please... What about us too can we qualify PLEASE? 😥😢😭
I promise you based on the costs of food, clothing, furniture, cars and other necessities (even higher on an island that imports most of these things) that a family of 4 making $75k/yr CANNOT afford a $400k home unless they live in poverty with all other aspects of their life. ~$125k a year and the kids in public school maybe, but food, clothes, toys, etc will eat into that budget (at least the kids will have options though).
Keep allowing rich individuals, companies or corporations from all over the world buy up places here and then pretend to try to solve housing problems for ordinary people
Facts💯
Rep Chang seems sincere and proactive here, with a sound proposal for these grim and ugly circumstances. Nice Work. The 1% simply can't be competed against. (As it stands now, this planet is Their World, and we just live in it - for as long as they allow). The 'Low Income' with County Housing vouchers (Sec 8) are a gravy train for real estate investors - on the tax payer's dime. The middle and working class are per usual, when not being squeezed to death are being Squeezed Out. This Feeding Frenzy of Paradise is beyond immoral. It's godless. Take Hawaii Homelands for example, what exactly is The Plan here - just wait until all the recipients die of old age?
Sad the Native Hawaiians can't be recognized as a Sovereign Nation and can build their Casino.
Get in the mind of the Kam Students - They are the Home Builders of Hawaii with the Casino money.
It would give them Hope and Opportunity to stay on the Islands.
Lol - could you see Hawaiian parents pushing their Kids to study hard like Iolani and Punahoe kids so they can take advantage of this Opportunity? That Native Hawaiians can control their Destiny?
This is a better route to Pursue than re-naming the town of Captain Cook.
If they haven’t lived in Hawaii for more than 30 years they shouldn’t be allowed to buy homes.
Economic revolution !!
How would 29 year Olds and under local people buy homes under your proposition? SMH
First of all there would be like less then 1% of 18-29 buying a home at all. But for the lucky few that are in that position then if they're born in Hawaii then no problem rite...
@@sLydFXv6 they don't buy homes anyway without outside help at that age in hawaii. lol
You teach the realtors a lesson by taxing them for selling too foreigners u create a penalty for such actions because realtors could give a f@ck who buys it ,they want that 10 percent commission...(drops the mic)..🎤
My sons and grand kids live all together with me on the farm, The rent was killing them. No chance EVER to work here and buy land here. No opportunities . No transportation system or quality of life projects . Where does the money go? Pockets.
. . . .it (your hard earned money/labor) goes into their portfolio's. The rich are no longer humanitarians.
I'm a local boy who moved to cali and I can tell you talking with alot of people here,they are coming.they want to buy it up.its sad to see this kind of gentrification happen to our local people.
I grew up in Silicon Valley, (Santa Clara California) and can't afford to live or buy there. IT'S HAPPENING EVERWHERE. There's no legislation to protect us!!!!!
Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara…! ::sigh::
Canada is proposing a hold on non-resident home purchases for 2 years to allow the cost of housing to level out for those who actually live there.
Yeah more STOLEN LANDS. The Enoch tribes from Turtle Island ... it NEVER ENDS
People that makes $10.10 an hour. Can never make a living. Diss bs
Employers in Hawaii are well aware that it is mostly acceptable for locals to live in multigenerational homes, hence they do not pay a competitive salary. The true expense comes from the family which allows these companies to pay us below market wages! I earn more than minimum wage, but still can’t afford a place of my own. I was very fortunate my father did well for us so housing was not a problem for my parents and they were able to own more than one home without a mortgage but it is a huge problem for me so the option I have right now is to contribute to the living expenses of my mother, easing some of her expenses while living in which is much better than paying a little more to rent an old overpriced studio in the not so nice parts of town!
Same goes for people that makes 20 - 40+ an hour. We make about this much and still struggling.
@@joshysanti91 I know some executives in my company and also in the engineering industry who are high paid but not living the high life. They are high salaried but do not own fancy mansions in Kahala or Hawaii Kai like most would imagine them to be. Many of them if single live in one bedroom apartments they bought in Mccully or Makiki. I work in the financial services sector and some of the executives and higher managers I work with live in very modest old homes that are not very glamorous considering their title and the roles they do for the company!
People who make $10 an hour have no business bying anything, they are teenagers and live with their parents 🙄
@@matthewbrashears1248 I actually know people with a masters degree but could not find a job so they temporarily settled as tellers while trying to find a better paying job so you cannot judge a person for their situation! It’s easy for you to say because you haven’t been in that situation yourself or know someone close to you who has! People actually do try! Then there are those who are just lazy and will try to get unemployment instead of doing the right thing and temporarily taking a low paying job while looking for a better one!
I think the state government should introduced an real estate tax just for foreign and out of state buyers! The tax should be at least 25 percent of the value of the property being purchased.
It has been already in place for a long time 😜💞😜
@@moreenkasu2925 ,you are saying there is already a real estate tax at 25 percent, exclusively for foreigners and out of state buyers!?
No Hawaiians no aloha
Double tax the foreigner when they buy a home here and the local's property tax should be dropped.
Canada just announced something similar . I think it's no sales to non-residents .
Look into Canada and what they’ve recently done to lower the market prices
Remember the 1980s on Oahu? In the end, money talks. Japanese investors were literally knocking on doors asking if homeowners wanted to sell their homes.
My parents had to sell their house in Waialae Iki a very long time ago because they couldn't afford the property tax anymore.
I left Hawaii in 1968 to work for Uncle Sam and when I finished my tour, I put down roots in California after that tour. I'm glad I never went back.
What were the property taxes, last I check Hawaii has one of the lowest
@@beretaniastreet6384 I really don't know as I was still at the UH. My parents were working class. My father never graduated from high school as he had to work at a young age to help support his family. I can't remember the exact year they sold the house to move to Hilo but it must have been in the late 1970's sometime.
I don't know if Hawaii property taxes are like other states because I moved to California after the service but the actual property tax is not the problem. It's all the pile on stuff they add depending on your local city council. Where I live, it's an unincorporated area of Los Angeles so we are not an actual "city" so the taxes are fairly stable. My GF lives in another city where her property taxes are crazy due to add on stuff every year.
Interestingly enough, many decades ago, a politician in California did a study and found out that California could actually get rid of property taxes and still survive. You know he wasn't popular.
Give the land back to the Hawaiians : problem solved ❤
you best take care native KANAKAS and locals born and raise here ... otherwise there will be consequences...
these rich clowns 🤡 jack the price on cola and hola we do not need the rich clowns in HAWAII NEI... go buy in Ukraine 🤙😎
Since the day Hawaii was taken from the natives it has been all about money. Try going on from Hawaii down into the high islands of Micronesian and see what has been lost.
Thousands of people from Micronesia have moved to the USA,
including Hawaii, because they prefer the USA.
As for "all about money" in Hawaii, it's like that everywhere, and always has been.
For example, King Kamehameha sold an entire island (Niihau) for $10,000 in 1864.
@@gregcarter8656 Well, those are refreshing facts. Take note everyone!
@@gregcarter8656 uh no.
How's about we dump all state legislation people, nothing ever came affordable under your leadership. Get the he'll out of office.
Put all these officials into projects it will help them to pass better living laws
What exactly does a better living law mean?
When laws don’t force local farmers chase luxury hotels and gourmet restaurants instead they can provide REAL food to all people at prices that reflect average Joe earnings here on the island to start with
@Dave Dave umm...what laws are you referring to?
Five years minimum living here before purchase.
I agree
They got Hawaiians waiting over 40 years on the list. 5 is too low. 20 years
I agree....or even a 2 year minimum would prevent so many foreign investors from being able to buy here.
Nonsense.
Do they have to have WORKED here too? Or is having proof you were “living” in Hawaii for one month each year enough to qualify?
Put a moratorium on outside buyers
This sounds like two different issues.
1: Not enough affordable housing.
2: Non Hawaii residents buying multimillion dollar homes.
The second one is probably annoying to locals, but the real issue sounds like the first one...
Or the problem is right in front our face.. THE REALTOR💰
Of course that's the problem. This is an issue of racism and chauvinism. What difference does it make who owns the house if we are all supposed to be treated equally. Imagine if Ca. or any other state outlawed Hawaiians from buying property. The hypocrisy is huge in Hawaii.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I'm not saying it isn't also an issue. Just that it sounds like the bigger issue is affordable housing.
@@user-db9lz2yl7i Show me one example.I'll wait.
@@The.Hawaiian.Kingdom I am saying that it sounded like the real issue of that story was affordable housing. Not necessarily the only major issue in all of Hawaii's housing issues.. ;-)
None Hawaiian’s selling our land and we can’t do nothing! Hawaiian homes that you can’t own. This is all a joke
Welcome to America.
Until you come up with rent/mortgage prices around 12-1400 you will never have “low income housing” Studios under a 1000 with utilities. At least renovate while they continue to drag their feet as Hawaii is raped and sold.
The Aina has its way of rebelling ☝️✨
That Konishki residence was broken into twice per year for the past 10 years at least. My best friend used to live right next door in that U shaped condo you see there…Maili Cove. We think that’s a big reason why Konishki sold it.
They stole from a famous local boy that much how much and don’t care, how much you think they gonna steal from a Facebook haole?
No way would I own that place.
"a Facebook haole" 😆 🤣
The house is not even worth that much, the bums toilet is right in the back of that house haha.
400k… and not even buying…. They are leasing. While it’s a start, the locals can only afford to lease. Even the ones on that waitlist for land/home ask they get, if they ever get anything, is a lease. There children may not get to even stay on the property once they pass.
400k is affordable for native hawaiians and local people??!! Buying high density property and selling them at 99 year leases to local people. Wow. That’s a joke. Not a long term solution in any way. Just another band aid. Get real and stop allowing people to buy land and property unless you are Native Hawaiian. Hawaiians 1st. Then once we can be secure and that DHHL list goes down then we can talk about other people “buying” Hawaii.
Who makes that much income. Get real, and who wants to live in a apartment, make affordable homes where family's aunual income of $30,000. Then you won't have to raise the minimum wage. Lol. If you can't do that then get out of office and find someone who can.
When you have people buying up these homes, at these prices, the surrounding neighborhood goes up too,. Putting a cap on certain areas on Hawaii’s market will allow locals to afford housing.
Foreigners should not be allowed to invest in any U.S. housing/land unless it is used as their primary residence and are working in the country. Housing in Hawaii should be limited to primary residences only for at least 90% of all developments.
None of that stuff should be able to be bought by non residents. Such Bullshit for those people.
Why not mention the sellers that are choosing to sell to outsiders? Is it all about money? As locals sell why don't they prioritize selling to other locals? I think if I was selling my house I would prefer to sell to a local rather than a transplant.
Take care of the hawaiian people first - the Queen promised them land to live on - they keep selling off the land to everybody else - soon there won't be any land left.
They should do something like you must live in Hawaii for over 10 to 5 years to able to buy..
Heck, have Mazie build her bridge to the mainland so the homeless can either walk or hitchhike to Commiefornia!!! Simple, easy peazy!
oh please,l they'll come from californ-ia not go to there
@@aubreymorgan9763
Ooops!! You’re so right!!! I stand corrected. Maybe, at least, ask for valid picture ID??
@@keaaul808 or something. I am a tourist when I visit Hawaii, but I'm from a high tourist area so I understand at least some of the issues a local will go through. really, personally, I think a limit on daily incoming visitors and making sure folks leave when they need to (ie the homeless problem where 95% are from out of state). I was shocked to hear just last years numbers of like 20k a day sometimes on Oahu (over 400k just in July)....its a small island. the infastructure is limited, and still complaining about COVID numbers blaming locals, WFT???
@@aubreymorgan9763
Thanks for your empathic response, Aubrey! A huge factor is Hawaii has always been a “one party,” Big Government blue State for decades. Democrat policies and welfare/entitlement ideology has put us into our dire predicament, as there is absolutely no political balance in our local Government! The middle class is treading water over here!!
@@keaaul808 sadly middle class vanishing is a trend, especially in blue areas. welfare programs have their place, but not at the detrament of the people and its getting to that point. Some videos out of CA and Seattle especially are terrifying and I do see a lot of those elements in areas of Hawaii now too. I think the worst part is there isn't a solid politcal rival to go against the folks running for offices the next few years down there. I'm sure many would vote for change if there was someone trusted running. Take care of yourselves and be safe.
The Kingdom of Hawai'i still exists. We are not Legally part of the USA
Foreign buyers and investors is not preventable since we are a free market and allow the ease of capital to flow in and out of our economy! however our local government can use other measures to tackle housing shortages for locals. They need to start zoning more unused land for development and maybe reserve them only for residents living in Hawaii that earn a certain amount of income. Most of these foreign wealthy investors are usually buying properties in neighborhoods like Kahala or million dollars condos in Kakaako which is not the first choice for locals.
Even in kakaako, locals may want bit too expensive and even with lottery, only a few lucky ones.
Ban investment properties and NO airbnb for 5 years
Many ideas for this. Let them migrate there then take them out of this world. Another option, charge them everything they have for items so they cannot survive on the island.
Can't believe they had the balls to air this...
Law makers responsible for this.
They need to stop this everywhere, now the rich are buying mobile home parks and camping grounds and jacking up the rent.
I wish I could help the locals Hawaii is such a wonderful place to visit and I love the Aloha feeling. It just wouldn't be Hawaii without the locals.
Only sell to Hawaiians who have lived there for ten years plus eventually the island will be empty cuz rich never visit
Great sell buy 2 house and get one!
If is a investment
All the liberals and Asians are moving there! Hawaii had not developed housing for low income Hawaiian population! It was the problem When I was stationed on kbay back in the mid 80's! Same liberal state problem as always!
Hawaii government don't care if home prices are always going up because it would be more tax income from property tax and home sales tax.
Locals and Hawaiians should bring back our beloved tradition. “KILL HAOLE DAY!!” That’s how you know who is from Hawaii if you know that tradition! We need to pass on that to the next generation.
I’d expect nothing less from democrats.
How much of that mixed-use housing is going to be affordable?
Are these 400k condos 99 yr lease holds? The purpose of a home is to build your family's wealth. If they are this is a very bad deal.
Hawaiians gotta eat um like captain cook!.
I like the idea of ALOHA Homes - Affordable Locally Owned Homes for All. I do hope that bill has a lot about making the lives of renters easier especially the Native Hawaiians who too many IMO live in tents. I have a 614 credit score, no criminal record, a college degree, and corporate experience, but I'm STILL getting denied for housing here. It's HORRIBLE what the GREED of the white Americans have done to these islands.
Burn down everything that foreigners own and they will stop building. Would you keep wasting money on building and rebuilding in a place with people that keeps burning it down?? As an investor, no. Its likely I will spend money where I can make money. Foreigners move away, land opens up, Hawaiians return to culture. Think about it... crisis solved. Everything going be affordable for Hawaiians looking for a place to live. KU KANAKA, E ALOHA AINA!!
Locals are homeless
If they can only allow locals to buy these “aloha homes”, they can set the same requirements for ALL the homes in Hawai’i… the thing is, they don’t want to. They are systematically pushing Hawaiians out so there’s no one left to challenge them when they try to destroy our sacred sites to build over them & rezone lands for residential when they’re not supposed to. It’s all part of a plan and the plan is succeeding.
I don’t get how a lot of locals working construction brag about making 6 figures and flaunting their gold chains and lifted yotas buying thousands of dollars worth of fireworks, showing off their newly renovated home and then complain that the cost of living is barely affordable…….WHAT?!?! 😂😂
$400,000 is considered “affordable” for a family of four with a $70,500 annual income??? Did that state study mention that this family would need to survive on saimin six days a week?! 🤨
I don't have a problem with anyone buying the 3 million dollar plus homes quoted in the story cause let's face it, most locals cannot afford to buy them anyway. What I see as the biggest problem right now is no one is building any "starter" homes for the many first time buyers. Only seeing those million plus condos in Kakaako and the Ala Moana area.
So sad, it's not local no more big changes 😢
Rich people stay on mainland 😒
These outrageous real estate sales bring on equivalent sales and property taxes. So don’t expect politicians to do anything meaningful to address this issue any time soon. Promises will be made, but action will be kicked down the road.🤨
No mention of raising revenue from the sale of the those foreign owned investors? Hawaii needs to gets its cut of these high dollar sales. These investors don't work here, live here or contribute to our community. Chang's proposal sounds like a short term payoff with no real teeth and no lasting solution. If you want a real solution tax these investors up the wazoo, use the money to build a treatment facility for the homeless, affordable houses (not condos) for families with two parents.
One day, the island will run out of resources, such as water....so go ahead build more high rises, there will be a point, if it's not already here, there will not be enough water. Believe me!
Didn't Mr and Mrs Obama just do a "run-around" the environment laws to build a $19 million beach front mansion in Hawaii?
Pure greed.
State owned land will never be sold to apartment owners . Leasehold lands is not the answer . Lessons learned by so many cannot afford Leasehold increases. In the end they own what you paided for . Then you have association dues .
Disgusting
They selling cardboard house for a mill you think they will change anything??? NEVA
AND STATE WANTS THE POOR AMERICANS, HAWAIIANS, AND ANYBODY ELSE WHO IS NOT LIKE THEM OUT OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLAND EVEN HAWAIIANS. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT RICH ENOUGH TO BE HERE.
The key thing is 99 Year Lease. You don't own the land your home or condo is built on so really you still own nothing.
USE THE RAIL; put bike racks so the homeless don't steal the bikes.
They should think about Hawaii people.the rich people are earth worms .
What is wrong with building more?
No locals like to do construction anymore?
Unless you used to live here and want to move back, there should be NO out of state buyers.
Housing isn’t a right. Next topic.
Yup. Just sold my run of the mill 3/2 for a million plus all cash. We took offers with a 7 day deadline. Five offers came in, one with an exclusion clause matching and exceeding the highest offer by 5K. They're from California.
Were you born and raised in HI?
This is what Hawaiians should be rallying and fighting for, instead of something as dumb as TMT. But of course those guys would never fight for something that affects ALL Hawaiians living in Hawaii.
TMT is colonization
HAWAII BETTER NOT BE SELLING TO MAINLAND CHINA!!!
Look. If you are not a millionaire/billionaire by now....and you are over 30.....FORGET-ABOUT-IT...…YOU ARE NOT GONNA BE A HOMEOWNER IN HAWAII.
Rent for as long as you can. Enjoy your time on the island(s) while you still have your health.
Death is coming for each and every one of us. Enjoy the ride. This is a great place to live, but you will NOT be a homeowner.
Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~ 🤙🤙
EVIDENCE that the rich are getting richer!
ALLEGEDLY: "CHARADE": IS PERFECT, DEFINING THE COVER UP, NON COMPLIANCES, TO: "THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS; THE UNITED STATES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, WITH AMENDMENTS; THE UNITED STATES PLEDGE OF ALLIGIANCE": OF HOMEOWNERS......WELL, THE SOLUTION, TO THE HAWAII HOUSING CRISIS, IS NOT, WITH FOREIGN SPIES. I HAD TO NOTICE BUCA, UKRAINE REPORTS, OF MASSACRES, TO WHICH, THE NUMBER 1 RUSSIAN SPY KIDNAPPED, ONE HAWAIIAN RESIDENCE FEMALE, OVER "A" DECADE AGO. WHAT HAPPENED?????? AS THE FEDERATION OF RUSSIA ARMIES APPROACHED, THE SAVY SPY FLED, TO ABANDON THE ONCE, UPON "A" TIME HARVARD UNIVERSITY FAVORITE FEMALE, IN HARMS WAY. I HAD TO NOTICE HER LAST SCRIBBLES, NEAR HER "MUD HOLE HOME"!!!!!! THE HARVARD GUY GOT IT, TOO, TOO CURIOUS, TO MEET THEIR COLLEGIATE REVIEW!!!!!! I DO NOT WISH, FOR DESPOTIC: "EDUCATIONS; EMBEZZLEMENTS; ENDOWMENTS": VOLITIONS REGIMES, TO OVERLAY; OVERRUN; OVERTAKE, OTHERS' MAKES, VIA, THESE DESPOTIC REGIME: "BUTS; BUTTS; YETS; NYETS", AS THE WESTERN WORLD LAW ENFORCEMENTS LAY DOWN THEIR DUTIES, UNTIL, IT MEETS THEIR SELF EVIDENT THRESHOLDS, THEIR OWN GROWTH ADVANTAGES, THE DESPOTIC REGIMES RULE HARSHLY, ESPECIALLY, IN FOREIGN LANDS: "SCRAPED: "DOWN; UP" INNER TORSO FLESH, TO MAKE SOY SAUCES, IN THE MUD HOLE, DOES NOT MEET MY FRANCHISE STANDARDS LIFETIME......THE UNITED STATES, HAWAII, HOMEOWNERS HAD THEIR DUTIES, PROCLAIMED,,,,,,THEY ABSOLUTELY FAILED, DUE, TO THEIR VOLITIONING CHARADES= TO ESCALATE HOUSING PRICES, VIA, THE DESPOTIC UNITED STATES NATIONAL DEBTS BILKERS BUNDLES REGIMES!!!!!! WITH "BOARD; ROOM" THE BASIC NEEDS, TO LIVE, EVIDENTLY EVIDENCED, ACROSS THE UNITED STATES UNIVERSITIES BOARDS,,,,,,THE CALL TO ARRANGE DIFFERENT FAIR OUTCOMES, UNDER THE LAWS WAS ALREADY MADE......IS IT THE POSSIBLITY: "THE DESPOTIC REGIMES HIRE THE SPIES, IN ORDER, TO: "RAPE; PILLAGE; FRATERNICIDE; GENOCIDE; INFANTCIDE", TO BECOME THE FUTURE $MILLIONS HOME OWNERS?????? THUS, I MADE MY WRITINGS, OVER 26 STRAIGHT YEARS, OVER 130,000 ESTIMATED PAGES: "TO PETITION GOVERNMENT FOR REDRESS OF MY GRIEVANCES", AS I FOLLOWED: "THE UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS; THE UNITED STATES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, WITH AMENDMENTS; THE UNITED STATES PLEDGE OF ALLIGIANCE", INTO NEW MILLENNIUM INDIGENCY, TO KNOW: "IF I HAD ONE BRICK, ESPECIALLY, OUT OF "GOVERNMENT", FOR EACH PAGE I WROTE, I WOULD HAVE ONE HOME!!!!!!