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Brian Schatz: “We're 70,000 units short in the state of Hawaii.”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Ka Pewa Ep. 8: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz

Published | Video Starts at 05:38

The idea is, how do we unlock the idea that everybody deserves their basic economic dignity? And with housing, like, we've just made it really, really hard to build the thing that we all say we want, We're 70,000 units short in the state of Hawaii. We can't even get apartment buildings built on the corner of Eisenberg and King. The things that we all say we want, it still takes 10 years, 12 years, 15 years to build. (05:38–05:42)

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