Hawaiʻi Budget and Policy Center highlights potential solutions to the housing crisis

The Hawaiʻi Budget & Policy Center today released its final installment of a three-part series on the relationship between health and housing affordability. 

Aside from highlighting disparities across health and housing, the report also delved into health care for people experiencing homelessness, and policy solutions for a more affordable housing market.

“Our housing policy failures clearly result in lifelong harm to the individuals affected, but the damage doesn’t end there,” the report read. “These failures come at a high cost to all of us, and one of the most notable is expensive health disparities.”

The report offered a number of policy solutions that would both help people access and retain affordable housing. These include expanding the use of rent subsidy vouchers, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, and being mindful of the “systematic separation of Native Hawaiians from their ancestral lands.”