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February 25, 2025

Could a pre-fab factory get more native Hawaiians into homes?

  • The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands plans to partner with Fading West, a Colorado company that specializes in off-site homebuilding.
    • By BLAZE LOVELL
    Honolulu Civil Beat

    The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is looking to build modular housing as a cheaper, quicker way to chip away at its waitlist of more than 29,000 applicants.

    Lawmakers have proposed giving the department money to buy a 196,000-square-foot hangar in Kalaeloa, which would be converted into a manufacturing facility to produce modular housing units that are 10% to 15% less expensive than traditional construction. The hangar is currently owned by the University of Hawaii and used to store helicopters for the police and fire departments.


     
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