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Who’s Buying Hawaii Homes? On Maui, It’s Mostly Out-Of-Staters DBEDT

Who’s Buying Hawaii Homes? On Maui, It’s Mostly Out-Of-Staters

Foreign investors were responsible for just 4 percent of home sales statewide since 2008.

How Crappy Sewers Make It Hard To Build Housing In Honolulu Cory Lum/Civil Beat

How Crappy Sewers Make It Hard To Build Housing In Honolulu

But there’s hope around planned rail stations where the city administration聽wants聽to concentrate growth.

Mayor Asks Developers: What’ll It Take To Build Affordable Housing? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Mayor Asks Developers: What’ll It Take To Build Affordable Housing?

Kirk Caldwell faces a tough crowd at a Building Industry Association conference. The opposition is delaying the rollout of his inclusionary zoning proposal.

Agreement Reached for Senior Housing Courtesy of the City & County of Honolulu

Agreement Reached for Senior Housing

Michaels Development Company plans to build two mid-rise towers and a street-level community center.

Should People Evicted From Hawaii Public Housing Get A Second Chance? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Should People Evicted From Hawaii Public Housing Get A Second Chance?

Currently an eviction results in a lifetime ban, but the state Housing Authority is considering changing its rules for those who fell behind on rent.

City Council Panel Urges State to Fund Repairs for Empty Public Housing Cory Lum/Civil Beat

City Council Panel Urges State to Fund Repairs for Empty Public Housing

Resolutions also urged tougher enforcement of the sidewalk-nuisance law, an audit of the Section 8 rental-subsidies and faster roll-out of Housing First.

Lawmakers, Please Give the State Land Commission Some Teeth Civil Beat

Lawmakers, Please Give the State Land Commission Some Teeth

A major jury award against a developer of two Ewa Beach communities exposes flaws in the land-use law that the Legislature should address.

SCOTUS May Hear Affordable Housing Case PF Bentley/Civil Beat

SCOTUS May Hear Affordable Housing Case

The lawsuit challenging “inclusionary zoning” could have implications for Honolulu’s efforts to build more low-income housing.

Honolulu’s Affordable Housing Rules Only Produced 33 Units in FY 2014

Honolulu’s Affordable Housing Rules Only Produced 33 Units in FY 2014

Mayor Kirk Caldwell is planning to release the final version of his housing strategy this month which would amend existing policies聽that one councilman called “inadequate.”

City Council Loosens Ohana Unit Rules to Boost Rental Housing Stock Cory Lum/Civil Beat

City Council Loosens Ohana Unit Rules to Boost Rental Housing Stock

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is expected to unveil his final聽housing strategy this month after a year of analysis.