Kealohilani Hokoana starts planning her day around a car she does not have.
Five days a week, her children’s father – they share a car even though they do not live together – leaves for his job at the airport before 4 a.m., early enough to beat traffic from Waipahu and secure a parking spot. That means the family car is gone until he returns from work sometime after 3 p.m.
Hokoana, 35, a single mother of two, builds her life around that schedule…