HCC §11-14
Rules for reselling affordable housing units
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section requires the housing administrator to create rules for reselling affordable housing units to keep them affordable. It also sets a 10-year limit on who can buy these units, and exempts certain organizations from those buyer rules.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Resale restrictions
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The housing administrator shall establish resale restrictions by rule to ensure that units created under this policy remain affordable. Such rules may include, but not be limited to, buy-back, shared appreciation, and other restrictions. The housing administrator may be delegated the authority to select the resale restriction applicable to a particular project. Notwithstanding any provision or rule to the contrary, for a period of ten years from the first date of sale of any affordable unit created in satisfaction of the requirements of this chapter, said unit may only be sold to another eligible buyer in the same or lower median income level as the original purchaser of said unit. Organizations classified under Section 501 (c) of the United States Internal Revenue Code and those that utilize United States Department of Agriculture funding programs are exempt from resale restrictions applicable to eligible buyers in the same or lower median income level. (2005, ord 05-23, sec 2; am 2011, ord 11-38, sec 2; am 2014, ord 14-8, sec 6.)11-14
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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