text: I give Caldwell credit for making a real effort to produce affordable housing. But what makes absolutely no sense is the increases in property taxes and how property taxes are used. For one thing, raising property taxes WILL raise rental prices. It's just a simple fact of economics. And we wonder why our rents in Honolulu are so high. Just check how much these homeowners have to pay to keep their homes. You keep raising the tax on these rental units and expect that the rental rates to remain the same. That's just crazy. And add to that the added taxes to homeowners such as a fee for waste pick up. Shouldn't that have been taken from the property taxes? This city will continue to suffer from high rents due to our high taxes and taxes on top of those taxes. And we wonder why we have such a high homeless rate.