Trey Gordner

Construction Defect Litigation, Housing Affordability, and Homeownership in Hawai‘i

March 10, 2025

Hawai‘i faces a severe housing shortage, driven by high costs and regulatory barriers that hinder new development. One emerging factor is the rise of construction liability litigation. While issues like land use constraints, infrastructure availability, and permitting delays have long been recognized as major challenges to housing affordability, litigation is becoming an increasingly significant source […]

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One year after the wildfires: Rising poverty and housing instability point to ongoing gaps in assistance

October 8, 2024

The Maui Recovery Survey: Housing & Jobs monitors the housing and economic recovery of fire-impacted households on Maui. This initiative, launched one year after the devastating Maui wildfires of August 2023, provides monthly updates on the socioeconomic conditions in West Maui and Kula on a public dashboard. The findings reflect the ongoing challenges fire-impacted households […]

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UHERO welcomes Trey Gordner

July 3, 2024

We are pleased to welcome Trey Gordner, who joined UHERO in June as a Policy Researcher/Data Scientist and was recently named a Lincoln Institute Vibrant Communities Fellow. Trey’s research will focus primarily on housing affordability and Maui wildfire recovery. Most recently, Trey directed the Hawaii Zoning Atlas–a statewide data defense project seeking to reduce the […]

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