Developer takes advantage of special permits for building near future rail line, but the city stiffens affordable housing requirement.

Developer Castle & Cooke will be allowed to move forward with building Koa Ridge in central Oahu.

The City Council considers a development moratorium that would postpone a project in Moanalua, while another in Chinatown has been delayed for months and still faces obstacles.

The Hawaii land agency doesn’t have any way to hold developers to their promises once a project is well underway.

But both could die if Rep. Karl Rhoads doesn’t hold a hearing for them this week.

Foreign investors were responsible for just 4 percent of home sales statewide since 2008.

Emails show city officials held private meetings with Haseko Development to strategize a controversial zone change and even helped prepare testimony to the Planning Commission.

But there’s hope around planned rail stations where the city administration wants to concentrate growth.

Kirk Caldwell faces a tough crowd at a Building Industry Association conference. The opposition is delaying the rollout of his inclusionary zoning proposal.

Real estate analysts and experts contend we could make great strides toward producing the housing we need by losing some of our regulations.