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.

The dismissal confirms that FSA may not end unilaterally the rent restrictions that prevent it and subsequent buyers from raising rents or selling the project unencumbered by the rent restrictions.

Rents will not increase for tenants of an affordable housing complex in Lahaina.

Residents celebrate as legal battle to keep rent from rising comes to an end.

The decision by Judge Otake rejected an attempt by the Front Street Apartments developer to unilaterally end restrictions that are meant to keep rents affordable there until 2051.

Without the court challenge, ending of rent restrictions could have led to the doubling or tripling of rents and the eviction of low-income tenants who were unable to pay.

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.

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

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

There is no organization dedicated to advocating for the rights of tenants, and a new study finds they lose nearly every eviction case.

According to a new report from non-profit group Lawyers for Equal Justice, 95 percent of eviction cases in Hawaiʻi resulted in the tenant being evicted.

The study found that about nine of every 10 Hawaiʻi eviction lawsuits over the past decade ended in tenants losing their homes, and most tenants did not have lawyers to help them navigate a system widely considered to be confusing for lay people.

Three tenants and a prospective tenant are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in 2nd Circuit Court against Front Street Affordable Housing Partners and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp.

Lifting the public housing project from its deep decline will take effort from all stakeholders—the Housing Authority, state lawmakers, residents, community leaders and more.

The minimum expected of public housing, according to multiple federal laws on the books, is that it be "decent, safe, and sanitary." It's simply unconscionable that there are still public housing projects in Hawaiʻi that can't even reach that low bar.

Among the responsibilities of state government is to help provide basic needs for citizens' whose own means fall short. Where shelter is concerned, the state acknowledges this through its public housing projects.

The state, as a landlord, has an obligation to provide living quarters that are in good repair, just as private property owners do.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, also says disabled tenants are not being afforded bare-bones accommodations, including accessible showers.

The federal case alleges that the public housing project violates the American with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act and the Fair Housing Act. The state case alleges a breach of obligation by the state under its warranty of habitability.