- The 2025 Qualified Allocation Plan Landing Page is now live! Go here to view the first draft and related materials, as well as to sign up for the 2025 QAP Announcements Email List!
- Looking for somewhere to rent? Both the Affordable Housing Inventory List and the Affordable Housing Inventory Locator Map have been updated! Go here.
- Notice of Public Comment Period: For the draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) 2023-2024. Go here.
- Draft Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), Program Year 2023. Go here.
- NEWS RELEASE (8/5/24): The state opens the doors at the newly renovated Hale ‘O Lā‛ie complex in Kīhei for the first of up to 150 Maui families displaced by last year’s wildfires. To learn more and/or to sign up, go here: More details about the overall Hawaiʻi Interim Housing Program (HIHP) initiative can be found here.
- NEWS RELEASE (8/2/24): Additional funding has been made available to Maui County homeowners who were affected negatively by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Made possible through the Maui County Homeowners Assistance Fund Program, those eligible may be able to receive up to $60,000 for mortgage payments, property taxes and other eligible housing expenses. Apply through Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi, the program’s contracted service provider. More information is available here.
- PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE on a five-year Consolidated Plan (CP) covering Program Years (PY) 2025 through 2029 (PY2025-2029) and an Annual Action Plan for PY 2025, as part of the consolidated planning process. A virtual public hearing is scheduled for Thursday, August 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. and an in-person public hearing is scheduled for Thursday, August 29, 2024, 9 a.m., at the OHCD Existing Housing Conference Room at 1990 Kinoʻole Street, Suite 104, in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. The purpose of the Consolidated Plan is to ensure that jurisdictions receiving federal assistance plan for the housing and related needs of low- and moderate-income families in a way that improves the availability and affordability of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in suitable living environments. To receive funding under certain U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs, the State must have a housing strategy that has been approved by HUD.
- HHFDC’s Affordable Housing Inventory List of affordable rentals was updated. See it here. (July 5, 2024)
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The landing page for the Hawaiʻi Interim Housing Program (HIHP) is now LIVE here! HIHP assists surviving households displaced by the Maui wildfires by placing them in temporary state-sponsored housing. Those eligible can apply by visiting this page or by calling 1-808-727-1550 and completing the questions for your household. You must register an account online with a valid email address to receive program updates and provide required documentation. If you do not have an email address, call the contact center at 1-808-727-1550 for help having one created for you. HIHP is administered by the Hawaiʻi Office of Recovery and Resiliency (HORR) in collaboration with the state Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC).
- HHFDC’s popular statewide Affordable Housing Inventory List now has a companion Affordable Housing Inventory Locator Map that allows rental unit seekers to better filter their searches to reflect their own specific needs and preferences! See both features here. (NEW!)
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The fee schedule for G-37 applications for GET tax exemptions is being updated for the fiscal 2025 year that begins on July 1, 2024. HHFDC may approve and certify exemptions from GET for qualified persons or firms involved with a newly constructed affordable housing project, or a moderately or substantially rehabilitated affordable housing project.