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Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s longtime vow to merge the city’s real estate and housing agencies into one unified operation has come to fruition. During a special meeting Wednesday, the City Council ...
The Grassroot Institute of Hawaiʻi hailed the 2025 Legislature’s passage this week of bills intended to increase the state’s ...
LIHUE – The County of Kauai Housing Agency announces a no-cost training opportunity for landlords and tenants to learn about current federal and state Fair Housing laws. This training is part of ...
The working group under the bill would be led by the board chair of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp., a state agency that helps finance development of affordable housing.
Hawaiʻi's four county councils could have less oversight over new affordable housing developments. State lawmakers are advancing a measure that would not allow county councils to impose conditions or ...
During the Great Depression, the United States government embarked on an ambitious era of public housing, creating almost 1.5 million units nationwide under the Housing Act of 1937. Located on Chicago ...
Laura Dobbs, policy director at Housing Opportunities Made Equal, stressed that passage of the new zoning draft is a crucial step in longer-range planning and housing needs for the urban-yet-rural ...
Many local government employees in Hawaii may be able to rent or buy taxpayer-subsidized housing if a bill pending at the Legislature becomes law. The bill proposes to provide grants and loans to ...
Many local government employees in Hawaii may be able to rent or buy taxpayer-subsidized housing if a bill pending at the Legislature becomes law. Under the legislation, the homes, with extendable ...
Pamela Tumpap, president of the Maui Chamber of Commerce, called the plan another essential tool in addressing Hawaii housing challenges, and encouraged that it be fast-tracked. The Tax Foundation ...
Wilcox Medical Center will pay a 6% wage increase this year, and 4% each in the second and third year. The City and County of Honolulu has issued over $100 million in fines for short-term rental ...
While Brigham Young University was ranked No. 30 in that category, it did make the top 20 for “Best Private Colleges in the West.” BYU’s Hawaii campus made the top 10.