Lewis Kaneshiro

Ua mau ke ea o ka `āina i ka pono

[Hawaiʻi Appleseed @HIAppleseed]

“The proposal to limit fractional homeownership comes as part of a broader push by the Maui County Council to get a grip on tourism and the influx of wealthy investors buying second homes at a time when many longtime families can’t afford to buy homes at all.”

[Hawaiʻi Appleseed @HIAppleseed]

In 2016, 50% of Maui homes were sold to people who didn’t plan to live in them full-time, a figure that soared to 70% by 2020. Today, home prices stand at ~1.15 million—a massive jump from the start of 2020 when the price for a home stood around $777,500.

https://t.co/TFPHkH50kI

[Honolulu Civil Beat @CivilBeat]

A County Council measure would expand the definition of timeshare to include stays of up to 180 days to try to limit multiple owners from buying into vacation homes. https://t.co/5pwt8NdDld @marinastarleaf #HInews

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

Remote work played a bigger role in the housing boom than most experts realized https://t.co/zTaXCFmmKn

[Bloomberg Work Shift @thefuture]

The shift to working from home drove more than half of the increase in house and rent prices during the pandemic and will likely drive up costs and inflation going forward, research from the San Francisco Fed shows https://t.co/U7GxyYeVN9

[Citrussy🍋💦Raf's Ravigote 💙Farren’s wifey @CitrusMeliae]

Wait.. people flocked to..HAWAII to work from ''home''? The same Hawaii where residents have been begging tourists not to come because the damaging effects it has on the land and it's residents?

Did y'all misunderstand what *home* meant?
They meant YOUR home not someone else's

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

Including Bezos buying up Maui and funding @ArrivedHomes income property scheme
https://t.co/rafCq9iwuC

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Now this is how headlines should be written

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

Hawai'i is imprisoned as the "Paradise" Giving Tree:
• Plantations stole our fruit
• Over-tourism & Military cut off our branches
• Relocations hack off our trunk, our people, through continuous ethnocide

Relocation-scheme @MoversandShakas threw jetfuel on the fire

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

Like the Bay Area, Hawaii has struggled with a severe, region-defining housing shortage for decades.

But the pandemic kicked things into a different gear on the islands, largely because people didn’t have to show up to the office anymore: https://t.co/mz5XPp3Nwl

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

With new long-term tourism/time-share/relocation schemes being funded by billionaires and VCs:
https://t.co/1BPgR4INnW

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

Like the Bay Area, Hawaii has struggled with a severe, region-defining housing shortage for decades.

But the pandemic kicked things into a different gear on the islands, largely because people didn’t have to show up to the office anymore: https://t.co/mz5XPp3Nwl

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Now this is how headlines should be written

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

@sfchronicle #UnitedShades "@wkamaubell: We saw that @MoversandShakas program...
@KKajihiro: I think that’s a very problematic program. It's settler colonialism supercharged with social media so you can be a digital nomad and occupy [Hawai'i]"
https://t.co/0ZjrrD5O0k

[W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell]

On tonite’s #UnitedShades, I’m w/ my family in Hawaii. 1 of the favorite things my wife & I did was going on a Detour w/ @KKajihiro. He took us around the island to show us the places that most tourists never see.

Watch TONITE at 10p ET / 7p PT / 4p HST on @cnn.

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

@SarahNEmerson the same @MoversandShakas 🤡 Nicole Lim calling their remote-worker imports to Hawai'i "Burning Man virgins" needing to be taught the aloha spirit while replacing Locals
https://t.co/66u9GaKj9p

[Lewis Kaneshiro @LewisKaneshiro]

Ignoring all-time high real estate prices displacing Native Hawaiians + locals, Movers & Shakas bought Lim who is “worried about destroying the Aloha Spirit” & compares pandemic relocators to “Burning Man virgins” (but lucrative new tourism) #kanakatwitter
https://t.co/n9xX4JyuWE

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

The freedom of remote work has come with both benefits and costs for the people and places where workers land.

That is perhaps nowhere more evident than in Hawaii. https://t.co/kWc0PgBnQx