{"id":186234,"date":"2023-09-14T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=186234"},"modified":"2023-09-14T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:40:59","slug":"hawaiis-housing-chief-resigns-after-confrontation-over-potential-state-land-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=186234","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii\u2019s Housing Chief Resigns after Confrontation over Potential State Land Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"entry-thumbnail\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Screen Shot 2023-09-11 at 5.16.31 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/needtoknow.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screen-Shot-2023-09-11-at-5.16.31-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Nani Medeiros, Youtube screenshot<\/h5>\n<div class=\"su-note\">\n<div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Hawaii News Now 2<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii\u2019s chief housing officer, Nani Medeiros, announced plans to resign claiming that she and her family were threatened over a potential land grab by the state. Hawaii Governor Josh Green\u2019s \u2018Build Beyond Barriers\u2019 program was created under an emergency proclamation to bypass local zoning and building regulations to quickly approve affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>Earth Justice and other groups criticized the proclamation and filed a lawsuit to block it.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Andaya, head of Maui Emergency Management Agency, recently resigned from his office following criticism after he publicly defended his decision not to sound powerful warning sirens as a deadly wildfire ripped through Lahaina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Governor Green called out former mixed martial arts fighter BJ Penn for leading an effort to \u201cbully\u201d Medeiros after he confronted her at a public meeting. Penn is an outspoken critic of the 36-member housing development approval panel that was created under an emergency proclamation in July, just before the fires broke out on Maui. Governor Green complained that it will be difficult to find a replacement for her now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amid mounting conflict, state's housing chief resigns because of political, personal attacks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmMdEAkMUOI?feature=oembed\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/needtoknow.news\/2023\/09\/hawaiis-housing-chief-resigns-after-confrontation-over-potential-state-land-grab\/\">https:\/\/needtoknow.news\/2023\/09\/hawaiis-housing-chief-resigns-after-confrontation-over-potential-state-land-grab\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ss-inline-share-wrapper ss-center-inline-content ss-small-icons ss-with-spacing ss-rounded-icons\">\n<p class=\"ss-social-share-label\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}