HRS §515-7
Blockbusting: illegal property value scare tactics
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section makes it illegal to pressure someone into buying or selling property by claiming that neighborhood demographics are changing and that this will lower property values, increase crime, or hurt schools. This is banned when the pressure is based on race, sex, religion, disability, or other protected traits.
real estate agents
The statute, as written — Blockbusting
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
It is a discriminatory practice for a person, representative of a person, or a real estate broker or salesperson, for the purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which the person, representative, or real estate broker or salesperson may benefit financially, because of race, sex, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, color, religion, marital status, familial status, ancestry, disability, age, or human immunodeficiency virus infection: (1) To represent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition of the owners or occupants in the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located; or (2) To represent that this change will or may result in the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or antisocial behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools in the block, neighborhood, or area in which the real property is located.
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