He used opportunities in debates to highlight Aiona’s longstanding opposition to abortion.Īiona responded that the Supreme Court’s ruling didn’t change Hawaii’s law which established a state right to abortion in 1970. Supreme Court earlier this year overturned its 49-year-old precedent guaranteeing a national right to abortion. Green vowed to protect abortion rights after the U.S. And it all ties into housing,” Aiona said at a news conference about his proposals during the campaign. “I’ve heard too many stories about families where the children can’t come back, the grandchildren can’t come back. He said this would preserve housing for local residents.Īiona lamented that many Hawaii people can’t afford to live in their homeland.
When it’s time to sell, buyers of those units would only be allowed to sell to buyers who are also in the 80% area median income bracket. For example, take an affordable property designated for buyers with 80% of area median income. On the campaign trail Aiona proposed developing affordable housing that would be kept affordable in perpetuity. He spearheaded the Hawaii Drug Court program which offers rehabilitation to non-violent offenders as an alternative to prison. Green was heavily favored to beat Aiona, who unsuccessfully ran for the office in 20.Īiona, who is Native Hawaiian, served as a Family Court judge and Circuit Court judge before he was lieutenant governor. He moved to Hawaii with the National Health Service Corps in 2000. Green was born in Kingston, New York, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Green developed a following during the COVID-19 pandemic for his explanations of infection rates and trends and hospital treatment capacity. He has continued working part-time as a physician while in the state Legislature and as lieutenant governor. Green was a doctor in rural areas on the Big Island before entering politics. Prior to that, he was a state senator and representative.
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He aims to crack down on vacation rentals and tax vacant houses to encourage property owners to open up their empty dwellings for residents to rent. Green said he would encourage the construction of 10,000 new housing units to help address the housing shortage. That’s among the highest in the nation, even though many in Hawaii work in low-wage tourism and service industry jobs. Statewide, the median price for a single-family home topped $900,000 during the coronavirus pandemic. “We will take on the problems that have seemed too difficult to solve or have it impossible to engage,” he said.īoth Green and Aiona focused on Hawaii’s debilitating housing costs as the most important issue of their campaigns and their prospective administrations.
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