We need to consider that a promising solution to our high cost of living, lack of affordable housing and homelessness can be found in one neat little (tiny, even) package: tiny home living.

The success of developments such as 801 South Street and the Hawaii Community Development Authority’s project at Cooke Street show that our citizens are hungry for these population-dense housing options.

There are companies right here on Oahu that have viable prototypes of single-unit structures. All they need are some tiny-house-friendly regulations to build their businesses and our communities.

Another benefit would be the addition of manufacturing jobs to our economy. It’s time to stop talking story about how we are looking for solutions to help the young, the elderly, and the homeless find affordable living arrangements. Let’s embrace the changes that would make our state tiny-home friendly.

Anna Raebel

Aiea

Don’t believe media lies about Trump

The coverage of the protests and growing fear of a Trump presidency is the media’s sad and unrelenting efforts to support the liberal establishment by stopping Donald Trump before he takes office on Jan. 20.

Less than 48 hours after his historic victory, in which the voters rejected eight years of the failed policies of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the media embarked on reporting the protests.

Never mind that despite the media’s collusion with the White House and Clinton campaign, as evidenced in the WikiLeaks emails, it was ultimately the American people who triumphed because they saw through this shibai.

Just as the people didn’t believe the media’s lies then during the election, the public won’t believe the lies about these protests and drummed-up paranoia now. The sky is not falling as the media want us to believe. The best is yet to come.

Mark Au

Kailua

Americans need to just grow up

Did you need a personal day off and free psychological counseling to help you recover from your grief after Donald Trump was elected president?

Stanford University students were offered such perks to help them cope after their candidate lost. David Brady, political science professor at Stanford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is appalled by the “hot house-flower students” on college campuses who are given special delicate treatment and concessions they demand to avoid stress.

He believes students today are immature, overly protected and unprepared to deal with real life. Students are graduating as disabled people.

Lacking coping skills, other disabled mourning voters also took a personal day off work and school. Sans psychiatrists, they threw tantrums, rioted and vandalized public and private property to protest having lost while chanting pointless “Dump Trump” mantras.

In reality, we need to make Americans adults again.

Fredrica Cassiday

Diamond Head

Drain government swamp here, too

The United States now has a president-elect who promises to drain the swamp in the federal government. Hopefully one day that same action will occur here in Hawaii.

Gov. David Ige and Mayor Kirk Caldwell won’t be the ones to do it as they are part of the establishment. The similarities between Hillary Clinton and Caldwell amaze me in their effort to increase their personal wealth and carelessly spend taxpaper money while holding office and then trying to deny these actions.

It will be interesting to watch what happens with the rail now. Donald Trump definitely wants to improve infrastructure but promises to eliminate unnecessary spending and graft. Both of these have been obvious so far with the rail.

Teresa Mary Tugadi

Mililani

Military contractors getting the free ride

This letter is in response to the letter-writer who called young people today between 18 to 30 the “generation of free” or the “generation of entitlements” (“Protesters on left are poor losers,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Nov. 16).

I think he is confusing these people with American corporations that receive close to $1 trillion a year in corporate welfare, tax breaks and subsidies, and then don’t even pay U.S. taxes.

What do these young people get? What is free? Certainly not education or health care. Quite the opposite: in fact they are close to $1 trillion in student debt with no jobs in sight, thanks to Wall Street and corporations shipping the jobs overseas.

Instead of health care and education, we would rather fund nearly 800 overseas U.S. military bases. The rest of the world combined has around 30.

Free is what the military-industrial complex is getting. Denmark actually pays their students to go to college. It’s all about priorities; we have the money.

Jim Quimby

Kamehameha Heights

GOP in Hawaii can’t get act together

A recent letter, “Hawaii needs more than Democrats” (Star-Advertiser, Nov. 12), reflects the ignorance of the Republican Party in Hawaii and its followers.

Perhaps the writer should have read the article, “Election further shrivels Hawaii GOP” (Star-Advertiser, Nov. 10). There is so much discourse and infighting locally that the GOP is unable attract candidates. I would vote Republican if the party gave me a decent person to elect. Unfortunately, it can’t get its act together.

Another letter, “Newspaper unfair to victorious Trump” (Star-Advertiser, Nov. 12), reflects the president-elect. If Donald Trump conducted himself in a civil manner maybe the newspaper would be civil to him.

“I hope you enjoy eating crow,” the letter said. This is not humility. It’s gloating, boastful braggadocio.

Robert K. Soberano

Moiliili