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Craigslist: Where Desperate Hawaii Renters Plead For Help Getty Images/iStockphoto

Craigslist: Where Desperate Hawaii Renters Plead For Help

Online postings show the dire straits would-be renters face in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets.

Two More Condo And Hotel Towers Proposed For Ala Moana City and County of Honolulu

Two More Condo And Hotel Towers Proposed For Ala Moana

The city planning department has given the green light to the builders as long as they add more community benefits.

Why Hawaii Trends Toward Large And Extended Families Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Why Hawaii Trends Toward Large And Extended Families

Cultural and economic factors keep extended relatives under the same roof in Hawaii, which leads the nation in prevalence of multigenerational homes.

Paying The Rent Just Keeps Getting Tougher In Honolulu Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Paying The Rent Just Keeps Getting Tougher In Honolulu

Nearly 60 percent of Honolulu renters spend at least 30 percent of their incomes on housing, a study shows.

Neal Milner: Here’s What It Really Takes To Survive In Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Neal Milner: Here’s What It Really Takes To Survive In Hawaii

Hate them if you must, but homelessness, vacation rentals and unlicensed care homes are natural responses to problems plaguing the islands.

Why Gov. Ige’s Secret Talks With Airbnb Have So Many People Upset Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Why Gov. Ige’s Secret Talks With Airbnb Have So Many People Upset

A backlash is brewing against a potential deal for the company to collect Hawaii taxes — in part, because no one knows what’s in the agreement.

Why It’s So Difficult To Clean Up This Honolulu Hoarder House Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Why It’s So Difficult To Clean Up This Honolulu Hoarder House

The city is seeking a court order to clean up a house where decades of piled trash have provided a haven for rats and feral cats.

Waikiki High Rise Would Include 450 Rental Units Civil Beat

Waikiki High Rise Would Include 450 Rental Units

The Queen Emma Land Co. proposal also calls for replacing a Food Pantry store with a full-service grocery.

Waianae Board: New Development Too Expensive For Locals Blaze Lovell/CivilBeat

Waianae Board: New Development Too Expensive For Locals

Critics say a Pokai Bay subdivision would increase traffic and demand on the sewer system while being too costly for current residents.

Brittany Lyte: Can Tiny Houses Fix This Big Problem? LiveWell Hawaii Modular Homes

Brittany Lyte: Can Tiny Houses Fix This Big Problem?

A 480-square-foot house recently built on Native Hawaiian trust land in Kauai is a pilot project for dealing with a dire housing shortage.