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Oahu affordable housing could include $1M homes under state guidelines; critics say that’s ‘out of whack’

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                                It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown are a pair of renovated 3-bedroom units in the Kuapa Isle townhome complex in Hawaii Kai that recently sold for $1 million.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown are a pair of renovated 3-bedroom units in the Kuapa Isle townhome complex in Hawaii Kai that recently sold for $1 million.

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                                Developer Castle & Cooke Hawaii delivered its first market-­priced home at Koa Ridge in November, and expects to have an initial increment of 140 affordable homes finished late this year and early next year. Initial market-price homes at Koa Ridge range from the high $800,000s to $1 million. Pictured here are homes under construction earlier this month.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

Developer Castle & Cooke Hawaii delivered its first market-­priced home at Koa Ridge in November, and expects to have an initial increment of 140 affordable homes finished late this year and early next year. Initial market-price homes at Koa Ridge range from the high $800,000s to $1 million. Pictured here are homes under construction earlier this month.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is Kakaako’s The Collection condominium tower where five 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom units in the tower have sold for $1 million since September.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is Kakaako’s The Collection condominium tower where five 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom units in the tower have sold for $1 million since September.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is a 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom Mililani Mauka home that recently sold for $1 million.
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CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM

It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is a 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom Mililani Mauka home that recently sold for $1 million.

CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown are a pair of renovated 3-bedroom units in the Kuapa Isle townhome complex in Hawaii Kai that recently sold for $1 million.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                Developer Castle & Cooke Hawaii delivered its first market-­priced home at Koa Ridge in November, and expects to have an initial increment of 140 affordable homes finished late this year and early next year. Initial market-price homes at Koa Ridge range from the high $800,000s to $1 million. Pictured here are homes under construction earlier this month.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is Kakaako’s The Collection condominium tower where five 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom units in the tower have sold for $1 million since September.
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM
                                It typically takes more than $1 million to buy a lavish home on Oahu, yet this rather hefty sum can be considered the price for “affordable” housing in Honolulu under a state guideline. Shown is a 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom Mililani Mauka home that recently sold for $1 million.