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A state agency that helps finance affordable-housing development in Hawaii faces having its funding award criteria dictated by the Legislature to favor state and county projects.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Highridge Costa Development Company announced that the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting approved redevelopment for The Mayor Wright Homes

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Highridge Costa Development Company announced that the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting approved redevelopment for The Mayor Wright Homes

State-facilitated financing or consideration for financing has been approved for three major — and long-anticipated — Hawaii public housing redevelopment projects on Oahu, which are projected to produce an impressive 1,800 housing units over the next four years.

Three long-delayed Oahu public housing redevelopment projects took big steps forward last week and could produce 554 new homes in 2026 and 911 more in 2028.

The need for housing affordable to the bulk of Hawaii’s residents is truly a crisis — one decades in the making, but now looming large and degrading quality of life for many.

Such projects, under Green’s order, can be processed differently, and potentially more quickly, than ones by private developers.

Possibly 200 new units may be added to the state-owned 82-unit Kahekili Terrace public housing complex in Wailuku, courtesy of a recent agreement announced by t

The homes will include units for middle-income people considered too affluent for most federally subsidized housing.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority has taken on the monumental task of taking its inventory from 1,187 units to an additional 10,880, announcing Monday that it has chosen a developer for its Ka Lei Momi Redevelopment Project at nine existing housing properties over the next decade and beyond.