While the Act 57 program ended in August 2022, Hawaiʻi Appleseed will be advocating for a permanent rental relief program that includes mediation to stabilize affordable housing.

Evictions have a lengthy legal process, and tenants always have an option to go to mediation. Instead, people think that there is no choice but to move out.

LEJ’s report, based on extensive review of court filings, court minutes, pleadings filed in individual cases, HPD statistics and media reports, concluded that government officials and the media misinformed the public.

The moratorium, put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes.

Governor Ige is waiting to decide whether or not to extend the moratorium and is still reviewing the mediation bill before deciding whether to sign it.

Hawaiʻi renters and landlords alike are frustrated by the governor’s confusing rule.

The state moratorium on evictions runs out at the end of the month, as the threat of houselessness continues to loom over thousands of island residents.

Longstanding problems with overcrowding have now helped make OCCC the most dangerous place in Hawaiʻi.

Lahaina Front Street Apartments, a 142-unit development built using federal housing tax credits, cannot be converted to market-rate housing or sold without the tax credit program's rental restrictions.

The lawsuit challenged a developer’s attempt to increase rents to market rate, or sell the property without restrictions.

Several organizations plan to take more legal action against landlords who violate Hawaiʻi’s moratorium on evictions over unpaid housing bills during the coronavirus pandemic.

A group of tenants’ rights organizations is warning Hawaiʻi landlords they might face legal consequences for attempting to evict tenants during the state of emergency.

Several organizations trying to raise awareness of what they describe as a growing problem of illegal eviction threats said on Tuesday that they are gearing up to take more legal action against landlords.

Advocacy groups say more landlords are violating the emergency eviction ban that's meant to keep people housed and safe during this public health crisis.

Landlords should know that it’s illegal to threaten, evict or lock people out of the properties they’re renting right now.

Nonprofits say they are being overwhelmed with calls from desperate renters and worry about a public housing rule that mandates social distancing, with the threat of eviction.

Housing advocates are calling on Gov. David Ige to act now to stop a housing crisis. The governor has offered mixed messages.

Like child labor laws, the minimum wage and workplace safety regulations, housing is a basic right.

There’s no justifiable reason that 85-95 percent of all lawsuit-dispute cases end in eviction, but that is where a report from Lawyers for Equal Justice (LEJ), released this week, places the rate for Hawaiʻi.

Studies have shown that homeless students can be set back by as much as eight months each time they change schools, said Victor Geminiani, executive director of Lawyers for Equal Justice.