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LBY CAROLINE WRIGHT
ately, Hawaii’s impossibly high cost of living has been a hot topic in local news. It’s
a challenge many families have ad- dressed by pooling their resources to create multigenerational homes in which several generations can live, often sharing expenses, chores and childcare.
a larger home. We see a lot of that type of work.”
Multigenerational construction isn’t always done to accommodate new grandchildren. Sometimes the goal is to help Mom and Dad spend their golden years in their own home.
“We do a lot of work for people who want to add on or alter their homes, because when they bought or built them, they could go up and down the stairs,” Vasconcellos ob- serves. “Today, it’s a different situ- ation.”
Against costs of $650 a month or more per keiki for childcare, and as much as $5,000-$10,000 per month for assisted living and nursing home care, multigenerational living makes perfect sense. Here are some issues to consider while planning construction.
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“There’s only so much land on this island, and only so much new development that can happen,” says Joshua Vasconcellos, project coordi- nator at Atlas Construction in Hono- lulu. “But people still want to live in Hawaii, so they remodel, build ad- ditions, or knock down their homes and rebuild to accommodate multi- generational living.”
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