{"id":225384,"date":"2016-04-14T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=225384"},"modified":"2016-04-14T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T18:00:08","slug":"homelessness-crisis-hawaii-eyes-thatched-hale-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/homelessness-crisis-hawaii-eyes-thatched-hale-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"In homelessness crisis, Hawaii eyes thatched \u2018hale\u2019 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong> (AP)\u2014As Hawaii deals with its ongoing homelessness crisis, lawmakers and residents want to revive the Hawaiian tradition of living in hale (HAH-lay). Those are the thatched homes made from local trees and plants.<\/p>\n<p>They say hale can provide more affordable housing, which is scarce on the islands.<\/p>\n<p>A bill to ease restrictions on building hale died after critics brought up safety concerns. Now advocates are trying to bring attention to a type of housing that celebrates culture and uses environmentally sustainable techniques to house the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Homes based on indigenous architecture are found from tipi-style homes in Austin, Texas, to Tahiti, where thatched homes lure honeymooners.<\/p>\n<p>Some Oahu residents want to convert a homeless encampment into a village of traditional hale with modern technology like solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU (AP)\u2014As Hawaii deals with its ongoing homelessness crisis, lawmakers and residents want to revive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[367,70],"class_list":["post-225384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-honolulu","tag-technology-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}