] In 2003, a typical home in Hawaii cost 6.50 times the
] annual family income of its occupants, versus 8.08 in San
] Francisco and 8.05 in New York City and some of its
] suburbs. Hawaii's current number -- 7.08 -- isn't all
] that far from the peak of 7.86, hit in 1991

Begin my links to the state of housing...

StockTalk: The Residential Real Estate Crash Index (#19777/19802)