UHERO
Housing
The UHERO Housing Policy Group provides rigorous analyses to inform debates regarding housing in Hawaiʻi, with a focus on the high housing cost burdens experienced by the State’s residents. This problem is multiscalar in its origins and thus requires a bundle of analyses ranging from longitudinal portraits of the State’s housing market, to estimates of the impact of housing costs on local populations, to objective evaluations of proposed policy solutions.
What if Honolulu upzoned everywhere? Lessons for solving a housing crisis from Aotearoa
Read the Companion Brief I’m grateful for helpful comments and suggestions from Trey Gordner and Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy. Hawaiʻi has some of the most expensive housing…
Brief: What if Honolulu upzoned everywhere? Lessons for solving a housing crisis from Aotearoa
In 2016, Auckland, in Aotearoa New Zealand, upzoned ~75% of the city. As a result, permits went up ~80%, and after six years, rents were 22% lower…
America’s housing affordability challenge: How big and how broad?
We’ve heard lots about the unaffordability of housing. How widespread is it and how extreme? To assess this, we need to do more than some…
New UHERO interview with Civil Beat
UHERO’s Carl Bonham, Steven Bond-Smith, and Justin Tyndall met with Civil Beat to discuss the latest research on housing, cost of living, and the economic…
The Hawai‘i Housing Factbook 2026
Research support by Chisato Tarui, Edith Prager, and Rafael Munoz Hawai‘i residents face the highest housing costs in the nation. The ongoing housing crisis threatens…
The Housing Market Impacts of a New Honolulu Condo
Housing policy discussions in Hawaiʻi often focus on how we can make newly built homes affordable. Yet new construction represents only a small share of…
The HCRC Annual Report of Activities 2025
Thanks to the generous support of the Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation (HCRC), I began my appointment as the HCRC Professor in Affordable Housing Economics, Policy,…
The Downmarket Impact of New Multifamily Housing: Evidence from a Honolulu Condo Tower
We test whether new condominium construction generates vacancies in a lo-cal housing market through induced moves. Using detailed address-history mi-crodata, we track households who moved…
The Hawaii Housing Factbook 2025
Hawai‘i remains in a severe housing crisis. High prices and mortgage rates have made homeownership unaffordable for most residents. Housing production remains slow, with county…