When a loʻi is struggling, you don't blame the plant. You clear the water, restore the soil, and care for the roots so life can grow again.
Transitional housing, mental health and addiction support, job training, and community healing through Hoʻoponopono.
The land is not a commodity. Local decision-making, protected cultural sites, and no more displacement.
Land in community trust, union-built homes, and affordability that stays affordable for the next family too.
Training, storefronts, community markets, and investments that benefit coastal families first.
Community gardens, food baskets, agricultural training, and the return of traditional farming knowledge.
Families are squeezed out of the places their families have always lived. Young people leave for opportunities elsewhere. Speculation eats more of the islands every year. We can do better.
Land held by the community itself — in trust, never resold to speculators, kept in Hawaiʻi hands across generations. Homes built on it by Hawaiʻi workers earning prevailing wage. Affordability that doesn't expire when the next administration changes.
Read the PlatformKalehua Kaopua is Kanaka ʻŌiwi, mother of four, running for House District 45 to create the Waiʻanae our keiki deserve. Her family was displaced from their home in the 1990s; she spent her teenage years homeless, faced incarceration, and dropped out in 9th grade with unrecognized ADHD and an addiction she'd later overcome.
Today — six years sober and a self-taught student of Hawaiian history — she is doing what she has always done: showing up, taking the work seriously, and refusing to let her community be left behind.
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