Fixing Up Homes From Kauaʻi’s Plantation Past Could Ease Local Housing Woes

For decades, bulldozers would simply flatten the houses of lifelong residents of Gay & Robinson’s historic plantation cottages after they died.  Behind the demolition of hundreds of homes was a Kauaʻi County land use policy barring home renovations and rebuilds on agricultural land. Due to age and flimsy construction, all but the most basic repairs … Continue reading Fixing Up Homes From Kauaʻi’s Plantation Past Could Ease Local Housing Woes