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HRS §666-20

Rent control laws can stop evictions during housing emergencies

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

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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