As Hawaii's governor, Josh Green (D), a former emergency room doctor, is being tested by an emergency far different from a viral pandemic or hectic E.R. shift.
Green has, so far, remained cool, offering more updates with the whiteboard and made regular assurances that Maui’s cultural and historical wealth will be protected.On Monday, Green said he was considering a moratorium on sales of damaged or destroyed properties and vowed to take legal steps to “allow no one from outside our state to buy any land until we get through this crisis and decide what Lahaina should be in the future.
Green centered his gubernatorial campaign on the need for affordable housing, particularly for Native Hawaiians, in a state that has the nation’s highest cost of living and hemorrhages 20 residents a day, mainly because of housing affordability.
The governor has indeed pushed back, saying the scale of the state’s housing problem — and a shortage of critical workers — require an emergency approach. . “If anyone says this isn’t an emergency or this isn’t a crisis, they are not aware of what’s going on in Hawaii.”His identity as a physician has been central to his political career. It has also made the governor a “maverick” among lawmakers but burnished a public “image as a caring, competent doctor,” said Colin D. Moore, an associate professor of political science at the University of Hawaii.
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