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Hawai'i

  • State Data Overview

    Across Hawai'i, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low income households (ELI), whose incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income (AMI). Many of these households are severely cost burdened, spending more than half of their income on housing. Severely cost burdened poor households are more likely than other renters to sacrifice other necessities like healthy food and healthcare to pay the rent, and to experience unstable housing situations like evictions.

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    40,629
    Or
    22%
    Renter households that are extremely low income
    -25,631
    Shortage of rental homes affordable and available for extremely low income renters
    $35,450
    Average income limit for 4-person extremely low income household
    $102,323
    Annual household income needed to afford a two-bedroom rental home at HUD's Fair Market Rent.
    71%
    Percent of extremely low income renter households with severe cost burden
  • State Level Partners

    NLIHC Housing Advocacy Organizer

    Zenayah Headshot

    Zenayah Roaché

    [email protected]
    202.662.1530 x815

    State Partners

    Hawai’i Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice
    733 Bishop Street, Suite 1180
    Honolulu, HI 96813
    808-587-7605
    Hiappleseed.org
    Gavin Thornton, Executive Director
    [email protected]

    Become an NLIHC State Partner

    NLIHC’s affiliation with our state coalition partners is central to our advocacy efforts. Although our partners' involvement varies, they are all housing and homeless advocacy organizations engaged at the state and federal level. Many are traditional coalitions with a range of members; others are local organizations that serve more informally as NLIHC's point of contact.

    Inquire about becoming a state partner by contacting [email protected]

    Become a Member
  • Housing Trust Fund
    HTF Implementation Information

    NLIHC continues working with leaders in each state and the District of Columbia who will mobilize advocates in support of HTF allocation plans that benefit ELI renters to the greatest extent possible. Please contact the point person coordinating with NLIHC in your state (below) to find out about the public participation process and how you can be involved. Email Tori Bourret with any questions.

    Hawai'i will subgrant 50% of its HTF allocation each year to the City and County of Honolulu. The remaining 50% will be subgranted to neighbor island counties on a rotating basis, as the state has done in the past with its HOME program allocations. In FY16, the County of Kauai received 50% of Hawaii’s HTF allocation. In FY17, the County of Maui is to receive 50%. Subgrantees such as Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui must have their own local HTF Allocation Plan.

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    Current Year HTF Allocation

    $3,744,423

    See Allocation Amount for Prior Year

    HTF State Resources

    2020

    Annual Action Plan Information Package (PDF)

    2019

    Final Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on pages 87-95 and 115-117 (PDF)

    HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)

    2018

    HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)

    Final Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on pages 79-87 and 109 (PDF)

    2017

    HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)

    Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 69 (PDF)

    Substantial Amendment #1, Kaiwahine Village Phase II, Maui (PDF)

    Substantial Amendment #2, Hale Makana o Maili and Queen Emma Tower, Honolulu (PDF)

    2016

    HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)

    Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 77 (PDF)


    Subgrantees
    Kaua’i

    2018

    Annual Action Plan (revised Oct 2018) with HTF Allocation Plan on page 55 (PDF)

    2016

    Site Blessing for Koa’e Makana project (PDF)

    HTF Allocation Plan (PDF)

    HTF Application (PDF)


    Honolulu 

    2019 

    Draft Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 198 (PDF) 

    Annual Action Plan (revised Oct 2018) with HTF Allocation Plan on page 55 (PDF)

    2018

    Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 108 (PDF)

    2017

    Draft Amended Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 103 (PDF)

    2016

    HUD’s critique (PDF)


    Maui

    2019

    Draft Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 65 (PDF)

    2018

    Final Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 61 (PDF)

    2017

    Ordinance Establishing Subgrantee Role with HTF Allocation Plan on page 28 and Kaiwahine Village Phase II data on page 36 (PDF)

    Amended Final Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on page 64 (PDF)


    County of Hawaii

    2019

    Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on pages 53-61 (PDF)

    2018

    Annual Action Plan with HTF Allocation Plan on pages 52-55 and 173-180 (PDF)

    State Designated Entity

    State Entity Webpage
    Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation


    Official Directly Involved with HTF Implementation 

    Danielle Guthrie
    Housing Finance Specialist II
    808-587-0579
    [email protected]


    NHTF-specific Pages

    National Housing Trust Fund
    Annual Action Plans


    Subgrantees
    Honolulu

    Gailene Wong
    Community-Based Development Division
    Department of Community Services
    City & County of Honolulu
    Direct: 808-768-5480
    Main: 808-768-7762
    [email protected]


    Mayor's Office of Housing

    Community-Based Development Division
    Development, Acquisition, Construction, and Fair Housing Branch
    Annual Action Plans


    Kaua'i

    Adam P. Roversi
    Director
    Kaua‘i County Housing Agency
    808-241-4444
    [email protected]

    Steve Franco
    Housing Development Coordinator
    808-241-4444
    [email protected]

    City Entity Webpage
    Housing Agency 

    NHTF-specific Pages
    Housing and Community Development
    Annual Action Plans 


    County of Hawaii

    Brandi Ah Yo
    808-961-8379 

    Susan Kunz
    Housing Administrator
    Office of Housing and Community
    Development

    Beryl Manliguis
    Housing and Community Development
    Specialist
    808-961-8379
    [email protected]

    NHTF-specific Pages
    Housing Trust Fund (HTF)


    Maui

    Regina Freeman
    HOME & HTF Program Specialist
    [email protected]

    NHTF-specific Pages
    Housing Trust Fund (HTF)

    Learn More About HTF

    Getting Started Report (11 MB)
  • Resources
    Resources

    Housing Profiles

    State Housing Profile

    State Housing Profile: Hawai'i (PDF)

    Congressional District Housing Profile

    Congressional District Profile: Hawai'i (PDF)


    Research and Data

    National Housing Preservation Database

    The National Housing Preservation Database is an address-level inventory of federally assisted rental housing in the United States.

    Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing

    Out of Reach documents the gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing. In Hawaii and Nationwide

    The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Rental Homes

    The Gap represents data on the affordable housing supply and housing cost burdens at the national, state, and metropolitan levels. In Hawaii and Nationwide

    Other Links

    Hawaii's State Housing Wage

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