A new report from the Grassroot Institute urges Hawaii to address housing affordability issues by building out, not up — that is, by allowing low-density development of rural areas rather than building higher densities in existing urban areas. The report notes that Hawaii’s 1961 land-use law has confined development to 35 percent of Oahu, and less than 6 percent of the other islands, which created an artificial scarcity of housing. Building denser housing won’t solve the problem because dense housing costs more than low-density housing.
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The Antiplanner will be in Honolulu on Monday to talk about this issue at a Grassroot Institute luncheon. If you expect to be in Hawaii that day, you can register for the luncheon on Eventbrite. I hope to see you there.
How can an island with pot and meth addicts be so expensive?
The Jones Act and state land-use laws.
Whenever I want to show why the planners are wrong, I refer people to your ancient Tour of Oak Grove, which gives an aesthetic argument for single family housing I find most persuasive. I was disappointed this argument was not reiterated in your paper, featuring purely economic arguments.
Single family housing is much more attractive than multi-family because it can be made beautiful, and gives people control over their environment that multi-family simply cannot provide. At least 95% of multi-family housing is hideously ugly. To make multi-family housing beautiful takes immense amounts of money and it still doesn’t give owners the control over their environment most desire.
I would think those arguments would be especially persuasive to Hawaiians, who are almost certainly where they are because they are keen on enjoying beauty in their lives.
Hope that was of interest.
David
There are very few places in the United States where the weather is pleasant and civilized year round.
There are even fewer where natural disasters are rare.
Florida has hurricanes, California has earthquakes, Texas has floods.
Hawaii’s only downside is that everything has to be shipped there by air, and so pretty much everything is expensive. But if you want a low-risk place where everything is beautiful and the climate pleasant, what other choices do you have?