HRS §666-20

Rent control laws can stop evictions during housing emergencies

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This section says that nothing in this chapter allows a tenant to be evicted if a local rent control law, passed because of a housing emergency, stops or limits evictions. That protection lasts as long as the emergency continues.

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The statute, as written — Rent control ordinances

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.

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to authorize the eviction of a tenant contrary to any rent control ordinance declaring an emergency arising out of a housing shortage and prohibiting termination of tenancies or restricting the grounds for termination thereof, pursuant to the powers conferred by section 62-34(11) and section 70-65, so long as such emergency continues.

Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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