  {"id":150429,"date":"2021-10-25T13:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=150429"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:41:43","slug":"maui-county-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/25\/maui-county-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> guidance for more affordable housing in Maui County"},"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\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-uhero-maui-county-affordable-housing.jpg\" alt=\"coastline land and homes\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-150430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-uhero-maui-county-affordable-housing.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-uhero-maui-county-affordable-housing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manoa-uhero-maui-county-affordable-housing-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Critical modifications of the Maui County Comprehensive Affordable Housing (<abbr>MCCAH<\/abbr>) Plan are needed to boost available affordable housing, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (<abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr>) public impact research report.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>MCCAH<\/abbr> Plan was prepared for the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community Foundation by a team of 19 planners, engineers, data and policy analysts, attorneys and community development professionals. It is a major step forward in developing coherent strategies to address Maui County\u2019s shortage of affordable housing for lower-income households, said co-authors <strong>Carl Bonham<\/strong>, <abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> executive director and professor of economics, and <strong>Sumner La Croix<\/strong>, <abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> research fellow and economics professor emeritus.<\/p>\n<p>The co-authors called the <abbr>MCCAH<\/abbr> Plan an ambitious road map for reforming Maui\u2019s regulatory framework governing the development of affordable housing. It proposes a goal of building 5,000 affordable units within five years of the plan\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>Bonham and La Croix suggested that a few key components of the plan could be modified and strengthened. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building more flexibility into the plan by recognizing the uncertain nature of the housing demand estimates that were utilized in developing the plan.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that the proposed affordable housing (<abbr>AH<\/abbr>) coordinator position be outside of particular county departments because building affordable housing necessarily involves coordinating activities of and resolving disputes between several departments.<\/li>\n<li>Assigning sufficient power to the <abbr>AH<\/abbr> coordinator to resolve disputes across departments and to initiate proposals for investments from the Affordable Housing Fund.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that the responsibilities of the community oversight board be carefully delineated and monitored.<\/li>\n<li>Removing the last-minute appeal process for the proposed by-right development.<\/li>\n<li>Extending the proposed by-right regulatory framework to property owners remodeling existing multi-family units and to private development of new multi-family projects.<\/li>\n<li>Taking a closer look at project financing by reviewing the sources of tax revenues required for the project, restrictions on the use of bond revenues, and reconsidering exactions from developers building market-rate units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;With these modifications, we conclude that the plan provides a useful roadmap to developing affordable housing and easing the impact on lower-income households,&rdquo; said the report. &ldquo;The time frame for the plan is ambitious but may be possible if the (suitably modified) up-front regulatory changes are enacted within the next 18 months.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr> is housed in <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/the-maui-county-comprehensive-affordable-housing-plan-understanding-its-pros-and-cons-and-ideas-for-how-to-improve-it\/\">Visit <abbr>东精影业ERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website to view the entire report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This work is an example of <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=25\">Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Strategic Plan<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan proposes a goal of building 5,000 affordable units within five years of its launch.<\/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":[301,197,1467,1363,1026,9,343],"class_list":["post-150429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-economics","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","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\/150429","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=150429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150434,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150429\/revisions\/150434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}