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Will Lawmakers Help These Low-Income Tenants Stay In Their Lahaina Homes? Anna Barbeau

Will Lawmakers Help These Low-Income Tenants Stay In Their Lahaina Homes?

More than 250 tenants of a subsidized Maui apartment complex fear eviction amid the owner’s plans to raise rents to market rates.

It’s Long Past Time To Allow Mobile Homes In Hawaii Caldwell Administration

It’s Long Past Time To Allow Mobile Homes In Hawaii

Manufactured homes are a cheap, decent solution to ease our intolerable housing and homeless crises.

New Honolulu Housing Bill Seeks The Middle Ground Cory Lum/Civil Beat

New Honolulu Housing Bill Seeks The Middle Ground

UPDATED聽The City Council passed a measure Wednesday that includes concessions to both housing advocates and developers.

Report: Out-of-State Buyers, Vacation Rentals Squeeze Local Housing Market Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Report: Out-of-State Buyers, Vacation Rentals Squeeze Local Housing Market

Updated: A new report by the Appleseed Center estimates a quarter of homes sold in Hawaii during recent years were bought by non-residents.

Affordable Housing: This Is One Time We Should Look To The Mainland Chad Blair/Civil Beat

Affordable Housing: This Is One Time We Should Look To The Mainland

Many states require that below-market price requirements remain in place far longer than Hawaii does.

Dozens Of Hawaii’s Mentally Ill May Lose Their Homes Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Dozens Of Hawaii’s Mentally Ill May Lose Their Homes

The state looks to stop subsidies to people who already have received them for much longer than the intended two years.

Mayor鈥檚 Affordable Housing Mandate Loses Ground Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Mayor鈥檚 Affordable Housing Mandate Loses Ground

A City Council committee agrees to incentives for developers, but hesitates to impose requirements to build affordable units.

How Mismanagement Cost Honolulu Nearly $5 Million In Federal Aid Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat

How Mismanagement Cost Honolulu Nearly $5 Million In Federal Aid

The unspent money was intended to help ease the city’s critical problems with homelessness and affordable housing.

Feds: Many Public Housing Units For The Disabled Aren’t Really Accessible Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Feds: Many Public Housing Units For The Disabled Aren’t Really Accessible

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority is appealing the preliminary findings of a federal investigation.

Temple of Boom: Mormon Church North Shore Housing Plans Hit Roadblock Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Temple of Boom: Mormon Church North Shore Housing Plans Hit Roadblock

A City Council bill to preserve ag land in Koolauloa could restrict a proposed 550-unit housing and commercial development.