Infrastructure is essential for modern life– it includes everything from roads, fresh water distribution, sewers, electrical lines, and much more. Hawaii’s infrastructure is under strain due to age, policy challenges, and natural disasters. How we maintain and modernize existing infrastructure, meet new infrastructure needs, and pay for it all, are questions that Hawaii must resolve.

Building on HIPA’s track record of spearheading the Report on the State of Physical Infrastructure in Hawaii I & II, which documented Hawaii’s public infrastructure needs and offered solutions to financing these issues, the Institute is releasing new, independent research and organizing timely public policy events to bring forth cutting-edge policy information and attention to Hawaii’s public infrastructure.