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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 03/06/2026

This isn't housing, but heck, not just rural Hawai'i and not just school: get them housed and offer a 0% interest loan to buy a home up to $1.5M for every Dr. who commits to ten years here. Well worth the $.

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Maui Now @mauinow.com · 21/05/2026

Gov. Josh Green has signed Senate Bill 2471 into law as Act 11, establishing changes to Hawaiʻi campaign finance laws regarding spending on and contributions to elections and ballot measures by corporations, nonprofit organizations, and other legally created entities. #Act11

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Campaign Spending Commission comments on the passage of Act 11

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 21/05/2026

Here's our hot-take, this is a bad idea. If you look at when the Land Reform Act passed that allowed for the conversion of leasehold to fee-simple, it is almost perfectly correlated with when Hawai'i's housing crisis began. It created incentives for developers to land bank and land bank they did.

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Column: Land ownership important for industry | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Oahu’s industrial economy is at a turning point, and one of the most pressing issues is how land is owned. For decades, a significant portion of the island’s industrial-zoned land has been controlled ...

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 19/05/2026

Instead of relying on a REIT's to hand out a fraction of a penny on the dollar on profits they earn off of Hawai'i businesses and Hawai'i consumers maybe we could...idk just tax them like literally every other business.

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khon2news.bsky.social @khon2news.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A bill has now become law to 'restore public trust' in local elections. More here: www.khon2.com/local-news/hawaii-lim…

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Rep. Jill Tokuda @tokuda.house.gov · 15/05/2026

The Army cannot keep threatening to take our land while claiming to negotiate in good faith. We have 39 months to sit down and do this the right way.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 14/05/2026

Sadly Hawaiʻi politicians would rather protect realtor profits and multimillionaire returns than keep Hawaiʻi Hawaiian.

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khon2news.bsky.social @khon2news.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"This is a huge win, not just for my community, but I think really this idea that yes, native Hawaiians should have a voice in land development." More here: www.khon2.com/local-news/state-legi…

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 10/05/2026

But we were assured that no one will be able to afford the vacation rental condos and Maui prices would stay high if we phased them out!

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 23/09/2025

We released a little paper not too long ago that found basically this. Developers in Hawaii hold back housing to maximize profits. That’s not even like an insult to the developers either folks. Their job, like every financialized industry, is to maximize returns. They’re just doing their job well.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 09/09/2025

”look the problem with our housing market is that developers don’t make enough money” is not a solution to our affordable housing problems. We do need infrastructure, but we should be building it to build housing for local families. full stop.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 04/08/2025

We’re releasing a paper today looking at Hawaii’s housing shortage. It’s bad and it’s getting worse. Our shortage increased by 15k units in the last 5 years. The usual culprit is zoning. Which you know we get. Single family zoning is meh. But is it the reason we have a shortage of housing?

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A market driven housing shortage?

📄Today we are releasing a discussion paper showing how zoning regulation in Honolulu isn't a primary culprit of our housing shortage. You can read that report here. When housing in Hawaii is talked about it's usually presented in simple terms. We have high prices because we don't build enough housing.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 24/07/2025

We exist to give Locals a fighting chance against this, 39.9% of units in Hawaii are investor owned. investorpulse1h25.batchdata.io

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 02/06/2025

This is a good thread and a great concluding quote. YIMBYism in particular is just tinkering on the margins of the problem. Auckland, the poster child for YIMBYism has over a decade seen only a 0.1% decline in the cost of home ownership and a 1.5% decline in rent. We wrote about it here:

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What would YIMBY housing success in Hawaii look like?

YIMBY's have a grab bag of success stories that purport to show how their policies drive affordability. On closer examination, these examples don't hold up.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 22/04/2025

We’re so tied to protecting a broken development system that we celebrate when an “affordable” housing development costs $400-$1000 MORE per month than the unaffordable going market rate. You can easily find a one bedroom on FB or Zillow for less. Inane #🌺news www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/04/22/n...

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New affordable housing rental complex opens in Makiki

PenseMetro consists of 29 units with monthly rents ranging from $1,900 to $2,400.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 12/03/2025

Good morning Hawaii, here’s the real reason we don’t have local ag at any scale. All that land is held back speculatively for real estate development. Build LIMBY, end this bollux, and read this thread.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 27/02/2025

This is a good writeup. At LIMBY we're all for deeded restrictions and affordability in perpetuity. That said this bill fails the "does what it says on the tin" test. It has glaring loopholes we pointed out in testimony. A thread 1/

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 25/02/2025

If we want to crack the nut that is affordable housing we need to do less subsidizing of $1,000 per square-foot studios (ala "The Flats" in Ala Moana) and do more stuff like this 👇.

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Hawai‘i Appleseed @hiappleseed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

#Hawaii has some of the highest home prices in the nation, yet our current, flat conveyance tax structure fails to ensure that real estate market activity meaningfully contributes to #AffordableHousing, infrastructure, and community investment. hiappleseed.org/blog/margina...

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Marginal conveyance tax rates would advantage the majority of Hawaii’s local homeowners — Hawaiʻi Appleseed

Hawaii has some of the highest home prices in the nation, yet our current, flat conveyance tax structure fails to ensure that real estate market activity meaningfully contributes to affordable housing...

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 30/01/2025

A quick intro as we're the new kids on the block. We're all volunteer but will be building policy briefs over this legislative session. You can check out more at limbyhawaii.org/policy-stubs/

LIMBY stands for “locals in my backyard”

We’re a group of locals who are fed up with the same failures being repeated for decades.

We’ve charted a path for affordable housing that puts locals first and we’re excited to share it with you.

There’s a lot of short-term actions we need to take, like tenant protections.

But the main thing we need is to create a market that serves locals, not international and CONUS buyers.

Please, no ad hominem attacks.

We’re not YIMBYs. Underpinning a lot of YIMBY economic modeling is this insane assumption: in the absence of government regulation land prices would be zero.

That has never been true, in fact land prices are the whole issue.

No. LIMBYs support building. We just believe that what we build is as important as that we build.

We think it’s unconscionable how many affordable housing projects are blocked.

Project by project skirmishes aren’t the fix though, what we need to do is fix our speculative land market.

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LOCALS in My Backyard @limbyhawaii.org · 28/01/2025

What we build matters just as much as that we build. If you can wrap your head around that, you're a #limby.

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