Duke Aiona Unveils Affordable Housing Plans….The Republican candidate for governor focused on building programs that could lead to more affordable homeownership than adding more housing units.
Duke Aiona, the Republican nominee for Hawaii governor, unveiled a five-point housing plan aimed at keeping affordable housing units below market rates and creating more rent-to-own projects across the state during a press conference Friday at the Hawaii Republican Party headquarters.
Aiona said his housing programs would focus on homeownership if he is elected governor, rather than developing more housing. He and his running mate, Junior Tupa‘i, will face Lt. Gov. Josh Green and Sylvia Luke in the November general election.
Aiona’s housing ideas include freezing the sales price of affordable units, creating a new cabinet-level housing czar, creating a path for those in affordable rentals to own their units, putting some state funds toward supporting a housing “hui” and revamping land leases for Hawaiian homelands beneficiaries.
