“If we sold our house and got rid of all our debt and then tried to start afresh, we wouldn’t come back to Hawaii. There would be no way to come back.”

“This is the community that shaped me, that taught me the values that guide my life day to day. I want that for my child.”

In HI-Priced, a new email newsletter that’s part of our ongoing “Living Hawaii” series, we’re asking local people how they make ends meet in the Aloha State.

Civil Beat is deepening its coverage of Hawaii’s cost-of-living crisis — and inviting readers to join a civic conversation about what it takes to get by in the islands.

Living with multiple generations is a way of life in Hawaii that Jowenna Ellazar embraces. But like many others, she has few options in a city where the median home price hovers around $800,000.

Manufactured homes are a cheap, decent solution to ease our intolerable housing and homeless crises.

Hawaii residents don’t earn enough money to offset expensive rent, student loans and consumer debt.

Bills that have sailed through the Legislature so far would boost taxes on the wealthy to pay for tax breaks for low-income families.

Renters in Hawaii are continuing to pay more than anywhere else in the country for their living spaces, according to new Census data.

Unemployed college graduates, Hawaii wants you! The islands need you! And they’ll pay a lot for you! Or so the viral story goes — and goes.