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Hawaii is a small group of islands. In many cases it's physically impossible to build new housing. This is why people seek to treat house rentals differently fr
by carabiner 3y ago
Hawaii is a small group of islands. In many cases it's physically impossible to build new housing. This is why people seek to treat house rentals differently from car rentals or jet ski rentals in that it's dependent on land which is a finite supply.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIts only impossible because much of hawaii is zoned for single family homes. In terms of topology and those resulting challenges its no different than a lot of southeast asian or even south american cities that aren’t afraid to build vertically.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> Its only impossible because much of hawaii is zoned for single family homes. Few crisis exist for one reason, housing least of all. A more reasonable perspective might be that progress needs to be made on all fronts. I'm not making an expression of fairness here. I'm expressing the minimum perspective we need to make any progress at all.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoZoning is perhaps the easiest lever to pull. You could rezone hawaii tomorrow with a pen stroke and over time the local construction industry will grow and snowball now that more projects are possible, sustaining more labor and contractors and importers, etc.