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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

The Governor's Housing Team is happy to launch it's Affordable Housing Pipeline Dashboard, which tracks hundreds of affordable projects in the development pipeline since the start of the Green Administration. Data was collected from publicly-available sources to identify projects where a proportion of the...

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

The Office of Governor Josh Green has released the “2024 Legislative Session Housing Digest,” a comprehensive guide to all the bills and resolutions that aim to expand Hawaiʻi’s inventory of affordable housing and ease the statewide housing crisis. Lawmakers approved...

Hawaiʻi has been awarded over $6.6 million in federal funding through the Pathways to Removing Obstacles to Housing program, thanks to Senator Brian Schatz's 'Yes in My Backyard' legislation. This grant will help establish a State Infrastructure Bank to finance...