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America’s housing affordability challenge: How big and how broad?
We’ve heard lots about the unaffordability of housing. How widespread is it and how extreme? To assess this, we need to do more than some…
Native Forests as Critical Infrastructure: The Economic Case for Watershed Management in the Ala Wai
Take Home Messages Recent flooding events from multiple back-to-back Kona Lows devastated areas across Hawaiʻi. While we cannot stop high rainfall events, land care and…
The True Cost of Subsidizing Childcare
Executive Summary As Hawaiʻi’s lawmakers are confronting budgetary challenges, expanding the childcare subsidies may seem fiscally out of reach. Yet, as we discuss, an expanded…
From Oil to LNG: Would It Really Lower Hawaii’s Electricity Rates?
Hawaiʻi’s electricity rates are the highest in the nation — roughly three times the U.S. average. The main reason is that the islands burn imported…
The Housing Market Impacts of a New Honolulu Condo
Housing policy discussions in Hawaiʻi often focus on how we can make newly built homes affordable. Yet new construction represents only a small share of…
Are People Leaving Hawaiʻi Because of High Prices, or Low Incomes?
This post focuses on a key theme from our comprehensive report, “Beyond the Price of Paradise: Is Hawaiʻi being left behind?” For 23 of the…
What Happens After Job Training Part II: Healthcare, Skilled Trades, and Technology Student Labor Market Trajectories
Hawaiʻi has long faced one of the highest costs of living in the nation, creating persistent financial pressure for local families. Housing costs remain especially…
The Lost Decade Never Ended in Hawaiʻi
This post focuses on a key theme from our comprehensive report, “Beyond the Price of Paradise: Is Hawaiʻi being left behind?” In the early 1990s,…
Is Hawaiʻi Being Left Behind?
This post focuses on a key theme from our comprehensive report, “Beyond the Price of Paradise: Is Hawaiʻi being left behind?” Across the United States,…