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Sterling Higa: A Promising Plan To Ease Honolulu’s Housing Crisis Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Sterling Higa: A Promising Plan To Ease Honolulu’s Housing Crisis

A proposal to build high-density condos with 99-year leases on state land could help create more of a home ownership culture.

Partnership Aims To Help Hawaii Teachers Buy Homes Suevon Lee/Civil Beat

Partnership Aims To Help Hawaii Teachers Buy Homes

A San Francisco company unveiled a new partnership with state education and business leaders to help school teachers afford to buy homes here.

State To Housing Applicants: Sign Up Online Or Lose Your Spot On Wait List Cory Lum/Civil Beat

State To Housing Applicants: Sign Up Online Or Lose Your Spot On Wait List

The Honolulu Public Housing Authority has sent out nearly 14,000 letters, but some advocates fear people won’t understand their importance.

Where Hawaii Renters Spend Half Their Incomes On Housing Carlie Procell/Civil Beat

Where Hawaii Renters Spend Half Their Incomes On Housing

In the state as a whole, people at many income levels who rent — not just low-income residents — face a shortage of rental housing.

Zero-Interest Loans Help Hawaii Residents Afford Big Down Payments Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Zero-Interest Loans Help Hawaii Residents Afford Big Down Payments

Saving for a down payment can be tough in Honolulu, where the median home value was $790,000 last year.

What We Must Talk About When We Talk About Housing Cory Lum/Civil Beat

What We Must Talk About When We Talk About Housing

Like child labor laws, the minimum wage and workplace safety regulations, housing is a basic right.

Sterling Higa: Transforming One Of Honolulu’s Worst Eyesores Anthony Quintano/ Civil Beat/2016

Sterling Higa: Transforming One Of Honolulu’s Worst Eyesores

Redeveloping the worn-out Mayor Wright Homes housing project offers a rare chance for the city to create some inspiring architecture.

Family Is The Safety Net For Many Young Adults On Pricey Oahu Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat

Family Is The Safety Net For Many Young Adults On Pricey Oahu

Kristina Ballina wants to move out of her parents’ Honolulu home but at age 28, she doesn’t think she can afford to.

Danny De Gracia: Ige’s Affordable Housing Plan Could Easily Backfire Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Danny De Gracia: Ige’s Affordable Housing Plan Could Easily Backfire

The governor’s call to build condos on state-owned land raises a lot of questions, both financial and political.

Despite Shutdown, Hawaii Housing Programs Are OK — For Now Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Despite Shutdown, Hawaii Housing Programs Are OK — For Now

Officials worry that if the shutdown drags on too long, landlords will be reluctant to accept Section 8 housing vouchers in the future.