UH alumnus hopes to develop young leaders to tackle Hawaiʻi housing crisis

April 1, 2022

By Marc Arakaki, University of Hawaiʻi News

Helping more young Hawaiʻi professionals find affordable workforce housing is the goal of a movement led by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumnus. Sterling Higa co-founded and serves as executive director of Housing Hawaiʻi’s Future, a nonprofit which seeks to create opportunities for Hawaiʻi’s Generation Z and Millennials.

“The overall goal is to end the workforce housing shortage and the way that we want to achieve that is by educating and organizing students and young professionals, providing them with the skills and knowledge that they need for effective civic engagement,” Higa said. “…The leadership is not going to come from the people in power now. It’s up to the future generations to take charge and steer Hawaiʻi in the direction we’d like to see it moving.”

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