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Hawaii

ProgressiveProfessor

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5. I do now, but grew up on Oahu

Reply to ellisonz (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 24, 2012, 02:31 PM

Oct 2012

My real concern is equity. The rich will find a way to live there while the poor are forced away disrupting families. Its not about keeping the country country, but keeping places for the less fortunate to live. Moiliili, Kapahulu, and others are facing gentrification and unlike on the mainland, there are hard limits to expansion. Ohana zoning can only go so far.

So while I understand the desire to limit development etc, its being done on the back of the poor, and that is what pisses me off.

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Environmental Groups: Don't Import Natural Gas [View all] ellisonz Oct 2012 OP

Another attempt to raise the cost of living so the middle class and poor cannot stay in Hawaii ProgressiveProfessor Oct 2012 #1

To be fair... ellisonz Oct 2012 #2

Hawaii was the first place in the US where I saw the American dream breaking down ProgressiveProfessor Oct 2012 #3

You live out in the desert in California... ellisonz Oct 2012 #4

I do now, but grew up on Oahu ProgressiveProfessor Oct 2012 #5

My family lives in Kaimuki... ellisonz Oct 2012 #6