{"id":139209,"date":"2021-04-13T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=139209"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:56:16","slug":"proposed-solutions-hawaii-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/13\/proposed-solutions-hawaii-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed solutions to Â鶹´«Ã½ affordable housing woes"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> residents have long struggled with housing availability and affordability. Median home prices in the islands have climbed beyond middle-class reach with many local households paying an unsustainable portion of their income to housing.<\/p>\n

In an effort to present solutions, the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Better Tomorrow Speaker Series<\/a> will feature a live online forum with Stanford Graduate School of Business economist Rebecca Diamond, UH<\/abbr> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (UHERO<\/abbr>) Executive Director Carl Bonham<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Public Policy Center<\/a> (PPC<\/abbr>) Director Colin Moore<\/strong> and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Rep. Nadine Nakamura<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The livestream conversation, How to renovate housing policy in a way that really works, will be held on Tuesday, May 11 at 8 a.m. The forum will tackle effective strategies, economic research of similar markets, and critical steps to consider during the post-COVID economy.<\/p>\n

Diamond, an associate professor of economics at Stanford has published extensive research on rent control, affordable housing development, income redistribution and the effects of foreclosure.<\/p>\n

“Rebecca Diamond is an original and creative thinker, one of the most brilliant economists working on housing,” said Philip Garboden<\/strong>, Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation Professor in affordable housing at UH<\/abbr>\u2019s Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a> (DURP<\/abbr>). “Her insights on new research can help craft effective remedies that will work here.”<\/p>\n

“Housing affordability and availability is one of the most serious challenges we face in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” noted Denise Konan<\/strong>, dean of the College of Social Sciences<\/a> and professor of economics<\/a>. “It\u2019s critical that we advance solutions best supported by evidence, so we\u2019re pleased to be hosting this event to help sort through the best ideas for Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

The livestream event is open to the public. (Submit questions and register<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Foundation and Kamehameha Schools. Event sponsors include the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa College of Social Sciences, Scholars Strategy Network, UHERO, UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Department of Economics, UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa DURP<\/abbr> and UH<\/abbr> PPC<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

This series is an example of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Â鶹´«Ã½ (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Economist Rebecca Diamond will be featured on an online forum on Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s housing policies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[301,197,1467,540,9,343,365],"class_list":["post-139209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-economics","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-public-policy-center","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","tag-urban-and-regional-planning","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139209","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=139209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139249,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139209\/revisions\/139249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}