Do you really want, or think the state should be involved in building anything?  After viewing the current rail and airport fiasco's, it has never been more clear that government in Honolulu, or Hawaii in general, should never be tasked with building anything but a dog house to lie in and even then it would be over budget and take 3x as long to finish.  

Our only hope to create more affordable housing is through private developers with state and city support either in tax credits, or some type of partnership whereby development of city owned property is made possible.  We should really be ashamed of the way our local government is run, its lack of imagination and innovation and lastly, the consistent way government wastes our tax dollars.