TVRs lessen availability, hike housing costs

I grew up on Oahu from age 10 to age 30. I began coming to Kauai in 1966, lived in Wailua Homesteads for several summers while working on a banana farm there, and now have the good fortune to own a home near Haena. I read with interest the forum article by Mr. Randy Weir about the impact of TVRs (transient vacation rentals) on housing and rental prices (TGI March 2, 2019). In that article Mr. Weir states that those who believe that TVRs increase housing and rental prices are incapable of critical thought, are blinded by special interests, and further he states that the claim that TVRs are one of the causes of unaffordable housing and rentals is “….a claim with absolutely no basis in fact and one never verified by legitimate research findings.”

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