ROH §32-4.4
Penalties for breaking affordable housing rules
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If you own a building that got a city grant for affordable rentals and you break the rules or stop using it as affordable housing, you must pay back the grant plus 10% yearly interest. You may also face other fines and lose any grant money not yet paid.
landowners
The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Penalty
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) An owner of the zoning lot on which an affordable rental housing project is situated that received a post-construction grant under this article will be subject to the penalty provisions set forth in this section.
(b) If the director of planning and permitting determines at any time that:
(1) The affordable rental housing project fails to satisfy any of the requirements of this chapter; or
(2) The use of the affordable rental housing project is abandoned prior to the expiration of the required affordability period;
the owner of the affordable rental housing project will be subject to the administrative enforcement provisions in § 21-2.150-2 ; provided that in addition to the civil fines specified in § 21-2.150-2 (e)(2)(D) and § 21-2.150-2 (e)(2)(E), and the penalty amounts specified in § 32-1.6 (a), the owner will be subject to a penalty equal to the total post-construction grant amount the owner received from the city, together with a penalty in the form of interest at 10 percent per annum, from the date the post-construction grant moneys were paid to the owner. Any post-construction grant amounts not yet paid will be forfeited.
Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.
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