Tami Whitney

Proclamation Highlights: The Sixteenth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing further refines and streamlines the process required to build affordable housing. Sixteenth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, signed November 18, 2025

Proclamation Highlights: The latest Emergency Proclamation removes the suspension of section 46-4, HRS, as it is no longer necessary in light of the legislature passing House Bill 2090, which the Governor signed into law as Act 37, SLH 2024. The...

Procalmation Highlights: The latest Emergency Proclamation includes a General Excise Tax (GET) exemption for Department of Education (DOE) housing projects, helping to lower development costs and support more affordable housing options statewide. Additionally, the suspension of the School Impact Fee...

Proclamation Highlights: The Thirteen Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, removes the exclusion of the area affected by the Lahaina Wildfires. This change provides affordable housing projects that were lost in the Lahaina Wildfires to use the suspensions in the emergency...

Proclamation Highlights: The Twelfth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing further refines and streamlines the process required to build affordable housing. Twelfth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, signed April 4, 2025

Proclamation Highlights: The Eleventh Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing further refines and streamlines the process required to build affordable housing. Eleventh Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, signed February 4, 2025

Proclamation Highlights The Tenth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing further refines and streamlines the process required to build affordable housing. Tenth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, signed December 6, 2024

Proclamation Highlights: Places a pause on the automatic adoption of county building codes, giving the counties additional time to review, amend and adopt the latest state and national building codes to suit their particular safety and design standards and needs....

The Office of Planning and Sustainable Development (OPSD) invites public comments from September 19, 2024, through October 4, 2024, on Hawaiʻi’s application for the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing (PRO Housing) Round II grant from the U.S. Department of...

Proclamation Highlights The Eighth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing further refines and streamlines the process required to build affordable housing. Eighth Proclamation Relating to Affordable Housing, signed August 15, 2024