{"id":132741,"date":"2020-12-16T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=132741"},"modified":"2020-12-16T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:22:01","slug":"rental-assistance-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/16\/rental-assistance-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization\">UHERO<\/abbr> projects rental assistance need to continue in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-housing-market.jpg\" alt=\"buildings in Waikiki with Diamond Head in background\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-132744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-housing-market.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-housing-market-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-uhero-housing-market-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least 10,000 <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> families will experience housing cost burdens created by the COVID-19 pandemic through 2021, in addition to the normal strains of the state\u2019s housing market, according to new findings released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (<abbr>UHERO<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip Garboden<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Reinvestment Corporation professor in affordable housing, and assistant professor in <abbr>UHERO<\/abbr> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/durp\/\">Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>; and <strong>Isabelle Picciotto<\/strong>, <abbr>UHERO<\/abbr> graduate research assistant, also said that rental assistance needs by some households will be extended and last beyond 2021.<\/p>\n<p>They suggested the need for a policy intervention that moves beyond a single influx of cash assistance to one that adjusts to household needs as the economy recovers. Garboden and Picciotto said that much remains unknown regarding the state\u2019s economy, and their findings should be interpreted as rough estimates to help guide contingency planning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/18\/rental-assistance-desperately-needed-uhero-reports\/\"><abbr>UHERO<\/abbr> first looked at the impact of the COVID-19 economic downturn on renters in summer 2020<\/a>. Since then, new outbreaks, locally and nationally, and a continued delay in a second round of relief from the federal government, have preempted hopes for a steady economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/estimating-covid-19-induced-rental-housing-hardship-in-2021\/\">Read the full blog post on <abbr>UHERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>UHERO<\/abbr> is housed in the College of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers suggested a need for a policy intervention that moves beyond a single influx of cash assistance to one that adjusts to household needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,1411,1417,197,1363,1026,9,343],"class_list":["post-132741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-economics","tag-manoa-research","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132747,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132741\/revisions\/132747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}