Hawaii's two candidates for the second congressional district both want the military to help fix the islands' housing costs, a potential win for local renters and buyers if it goes anywhere.

• Affordability is now the top issue in the race, and housing is the center of it.
• Brenton Awa and Jill Tokuda both want the military to build more housing on bases, and would tie it to the leases the military needs for training land.
• Tokuda wants the military to build extra homes for civilian base workers too, pointing to a study she pushed for that found the military houses only a small share of its people on Oahu.
• Awa wants caps on military housing allowances, which push up rents, and says his Republican ties give him a line into the Trump administration.
• Both also back tax changes to favor people who live in their homes and to limit corporate and foreign buyers, plus lower energy and food costs.

Outlook: Neither can move any of it without winning the seat, and the campaign next turns to war, foreign policy, and immigration.