Higher taxes do not make housing cheaper
Many Hawaii taxpayers breathed a sigh of relief after the state Supreme Court on Oct. 19 voided a ballot question that would’ve allowed the state to raise taxes on investment real property. Supporters of the proposal had argued that higher taxes could be the key to...
Maui Event: Build up or build out?
Should developers in Hawaii “build up” or “build out” to help ease the housing shortage in Hawaii? Randal O’Toole, land-use regulation expert and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, says higher-density zoning (building up) might not be the solution to the housing...
HPR, Akina talk lava disaster
Chris Vandercook of Hawaii Public Radio this morning (June 18, 2018) interviewed Keli’i Akina, president of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, about how state law encouraged people to build homes in Lava Zones 1 and 2 on Hawaii Island, where more than 500 homes...
Akina on ‘Heartland’ podcast
In this episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Heartland Institute research fellow Jesse Hathaway talks with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii President Keli’i Akina about how the state government’s housing policies have gone up in flames — literally. Lava flows...
Caution: Government at work
Aaron Lief is a writer and researcher for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.