Who we are
Hawaii LIMBY is a loose community group of folks with a like-minded view that what's been peddled as a solution for our housing crisis is just more of the same. If you want to get involved by contributing to our work, you can by reaching out and joining our mailing list.
The current list of folks on the status quo's naughty list are below.
Makana Hicks-Goo
Makana grew up in Pūpūkea and now lives in Mānoa. Heʻs lived a lot of places on island inbetween, from monster homes in Palolo to studios in Moili'ili.
Makana cares about housing because of his nine siblings-pilots, lawyers, nurses and engineers-only one has managed to scrape together the financing for a home in Hawaii. The rest live with family or have moved to the CONUS.
Makana studied Finance and Management Information Systems at UH Manoa and got his BS in mechanical engineering at Oregon Tech followed by an MSME at the University of Central Florida. He now does data engineering at the intersection of those fields. When not staring at housing data Makana can be found in the lo'i with his wife.
Makana is generally responsible for the data elements we share.
Makana cares about housing because of his nine siblings-pilots, lawyers, nurses and engineers-only one has managed to scrape together the financing for a home in Hawaii. The rest live with family or have moved to the CONUS.
Makana studied Finance and Management Information Systems at UH Manoa and got his BS in mechanical engineering at Oregon Tech followed by an MSME at the University of Central Florida. He now does data engineering at the intersection of those fields. When not staring at housing data Makana can be found in the lo'i with his wife.
Makana is generally responsible for the data elements we share.
Dale Kobayashi
Dale Kobayashi is from Manoa and a graduate of USC and Yale. He spent decades working in finance and later served as Manoa Neighborhood Board and in the Hawaii House of Representatives. He is a strong advocate for locals and recentering our institutions to serve kamaʻāina and kānaka.
We rely on his decades of experience in finance in analyzing the grey corruption that underpins so much of what passes for "affordable housing".
We rely on his decades of experience in finance in analyzing the grey corruption that underpins so much of what passes for "affordable housing".
Christine Otto Zaa
Christine was born and raised in Kapahulu and has called Kaimukī home for the past 25+ years. She understands the housing situations that many kama‘āina face: she's lived in a multigenerational home, an illegal basement conversion, and a three-story walk up.
Christine became passionate about housing because of the commercialization of our residential neighborhoods (illegal monster houses and vacation rentals) that continue to drive up property values and price out local families. She co-founded the grassroots group HI Good Neighbor in late 2017 to advocate for housing policies that benefit working class families. Christine is a mom who cares deeply about the future and affordability of our state. She is a graduate of Kaimukī High and UH Mānoa with a BA in political science.
Christine became passionate about housing because of the commercialization of our residential neighborhoods (illegal monster houses and vacation rentals) that continue to drive up property values and price out local families. She co-founded the grassroots group HI Good Neighbor in late 2017 to advocate for housing policies that benefit working class families. Christine is a mom who cares deeply about the future and affordability of our state. She is a graduate of Kaimukī High and UH Mānoa with a BA in political science.
Summer-Lee Kau'ionalani Yadao
Summer was born in Wahiawa and raised throughout Hawai'i; from growing up in Mililani and graduating from Konawaena High School.
Her passion to advocate for affordable housing comes from her experiences being houseless at the age of 14 with her mother and siblings to being a single mother of 3 children having to live with family and friends, until receiving a housing voucher just before the lock downs in February of 2020.
She graduated with her bachelor's in social work from UH Manoa in the summer of 2020 and immediately searched for opportunities to be involved with movements to advance housing options for people of Hawai'i.
Summer ran for the House of Representatives seat in District 42 and plans to run again in 2026.
Her passion to advocate for affordable housing comes from her experiences being houseless at the age of 14 with her mother and siblings to being a single mother of 3 children having to live with family and friends, until receiving a housing voucher just before the lock downs in February of 2020.
She graduated with her bachelor's in social work from UH Manoa in the summer of 2020 and immediately searched for opportunities to be involved with movements to advance housing options for people of Hawai'i.
Summer ran for the House of Representatives seat in District 42 and plans to run again in 2026.