"By going to the mainland, we can put our kids in a home that we can call ours," Richard Pelen said. On the mainland, Hawaiians are settling in what's been nicknamed the "Ninth Island of Hawaii ...

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About 30,000 of Hawaii’s 557,000 total housing units, or 5.5%, are short-term rentals, compared to cities like Las Vegas, where only 3% are short-term rentals, the report said.

Hawaii was officially admitted as a state on Aug. 21, 1959, but its relationship with the U.S. is complicated.