04-28-2024, 10:53 PM
the owners out there that I know of are all renting their pre-existing vacation homes. Hawaii always had a large number of mainland people with 2nd homes on the islands. I doubt regulations will free up these vacation homes to "housing" for workers. If anything, the government loses out on more tax revenue from less tourists and less jobs for workers managing and maintaining properties. Most of these houses will then just sit empty like they did before the world of airbnb and vrbo.