ROH §29-1.11
Rules for carrying out affordable housing law
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗The director must make rules to carry out this affordable housing law. The rules must cover reselling affordable homes and checking that affordable housing stays affordable. A third party will run a monitoring program to track and enforce the rules.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Rules
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) The director shall adopt rules pursuant to HRS Chapter 91 to implement, administer, and enforce this chapter.
(b) At a minimum, the director shall adopt rules to:
(1) Regulate the resale of affordable dwelling units under § 29-1.5 to ensure the units remain within the same AMI range, as adjusted from time-to-time; and
(2) Establish an affordable housing compliance monitoring program, to be administered by a third party, to manage and implement the for-rental and for-sale affordable dwelling units created in compliance with this chapter, for purposes of ensuring compliance with affordability requirements and periods. At a minimum, the affordable housing compliance monitoring program must address the performance of the following functions:
(A) Maintenance of an affordable housing database;
(B) Compliance investigations;
(C) Responses to inquiries; and
(D) Income verifications.
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