New Hawaii housing director focuses on easing affordable-housing process

The state’s new chief housing coordinator, Nani Medeiros, has a poster-size graphic on her office wall that represents the many thoughts she has about how to add more affordable housing across the islands by workingwith the counties to eliminate unnecessary regulations, offeringincentives to builders, updating outdated state rules and gettingincoming state directors to think about how their disparate departments can contribute to the goals.