Our Homes - Ending the Housing Crisis: A Proposal for the Ala Wai Village and Green

Sanford Murata wants to build bigger and better. He is proposing a better way to use the land of the Ala Wai Golf Course. Drawing from the Chinese idea of a "Sponge City", this project will store and filter excess water in the canal and release it at opportune times. The project will have two developments: "Ala Wai Village" and "Ala Wai Green". The "Village" would be a series of multi-use affordable housing with 3600 residential units and the "Green" would be a multi-use resource park which would help filter and use the water from the Ala Wai canal to grow a beautiful green space.

Sanford Murata, a real estate professional who studied architecture and urban land economics at the University of California at Berkeley proposes a new Ala Wai village. He has been involved in planning, development, and ownership of a range of real estate projects in Hawaii, his newest being the Ala Wai village. This episode of Our Homes is hosted by Senator Stanley Chang.