Like child labor laws, the minimum wage and workplace safety regulations, housing is a basic right.

A federal lawsuit seeks to force Hawaiʻi’s government to more quickly hand out food stamps to families in need because the state has been falling behind.

The minimum expected of public housing, according to multiple federal laws on the books, is that it be "decent, safe, and sanitary." It's simply unconscionable that there are still public housing projects in Hawaiʻi that can't even reach that low bar.