New owner of Honolulu building is making unusual plan to upgrade building but stabilize rents for occupied units.

Using sea level rise exposure for justification, two resolutions before the council could help more units avoid being phased out for long-term housing.

When developers propose big new projects, Honolulu asks them for community benefits in return. Some residents think the city could ask for more.

Testers sent by a nonprofit were told by agents for Greystar, the largest owner of apartment complexes in the United States, that their vouchers would not work.

Residential building has picked up the pace but the commercial district still struggles.

The two most recent proposals to tax empty homes in Honolulu have each failed to advance by just one vote.

A complicated formula results in a price-setting benchmark that’s higher than if it measured only income. The result: More people qualify, but rents are out of reach for many.

The decision may mark the end of a protracted battle over how to handle the island’s thousands of empty homes in the midst of a severe housing crisis.

The Honuaʻula project was delayed for years by a Big Island affordable housing scandal and then by a dispute with a neighboring land owner.

Small landlord now has doubts about renting to tenants from housing assistance programs; tenant says his story is off base.