Civil Beat publishes my opinion-editorial about the new trend of converting unsold affordable housing units to “market”
Here’s the link: Honolulu Civil Beat – ‘Affordable’ Housing Shouldn’t Be Sold Off. In a nutshell, I live in an affordable housing project where the remaining unsold units (after a series of obscure “public” meetings) were removed from the available pool of affordable housing units and are now offered for sale to anyone (including non-owner-occupant “investors”).
I link to the article here since I am not a paid member at Civil Beat and, thus, I could not participate in any discussion at Civil Beat if my piece generated comments….
I did a fair amount of research on this topic and I could go into much greater detail about it (if anyone were interested) but I was asked to observe a word count limit.
If you’re visiting my blog for the first time via the Civil Beat link, welcome. Please, have a look around at my previous work.
So are you going to be contributing there regularly if they won’t allow you to comment on your own contributions?
Comment by damon — February 27, 2011 @ 3:27 pm
@Damon I don’t plan on it.
I originally offered to provide information to help Brown write a follow-up article. The op-ed was his immediate reaction/suggestion, it was not my idea.
Comment by Doug — February 27, 2011 @ 4:39 pm
I think they should compensate you in some form just as their paid writers would have gotten… but I guess if you offered then that’s your prerogative.
I know at least one columnist there is watching my blog closely.
I’ve been asked to blog for other folks and when asked what I got in return… they said… your name gets published. I had to laugh at a few of those ventures.
Comment by damon — February 27, 2011 @ 9:21 pm
@Damon Visibility is the only reason I did it. More eyeballs there than here, and, in particular, more of the eyeballs that I wanted to tell the story to.
It’s a stretch to call me a “columnist” at Civil Beat, if you were referring to me.
Comment by Doug — February 28, 2011 @ 4:19 am
Are you on another hiatus? Man I miss the days when you were blogging daily!
Comment by damon — March 31, 2011 @ 9:09 pm
The problem with real estate development in Hawaii is that there is a lack of responsibility by mainland developers. We need to educate the developer in the ancient Hawaiian ways of Mokupuni and Kuleana.
Comment by icool — May 19, 2011 @ 10:37 am
Yayyy! Doug JUST posted something new on Feb 25! One of Hawaii’s smartest blogs for commentary and analysis of legislative shenanigans and skullduggery has returned!
I was reading up on some local stuff’s and saw a link to your blog, clicked on it, saw this post and was so happy to see something freshly posted. Today is February 28 and you posted on the 25th! Eggcellent!
(OK, I was only misled for a few seconds. But in those few seconds, I felt an upwelling of happiness before I realized your last post was just over a year ago. Sob. You are missed.)
Comment by Kolea — February 28, 2012 @ 2:01 am