Hawaiʻi Island
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November 11, 2026
Civil Beat

Harvey Stone on Workforce Housing

In a Civil Beat op-ed, Harvey Stone argues that training programs on Hawaiʻi Island will fall short if the workers they produce can’t afford to live here, and calls for workforce housing to be part of economic development planning.

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