On March 28, the City Council Committee on Zoning and Housing chaired by Kymberly Pine heard a number of bills in an attempt to address Oahu’s affordable housing shortage. Bill 6 is a bill to encourage development of affordable walk-up rental properties for low wage earners and reduce proliferation of excessively large single-family homes.
HBR Adopts-A-Block Clean-up to Improve the Community
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Service day clean-ups:
Members of the Honolulu Board of REALTORS®, along with family, friends, and staff, hit the streets around their headquarters in Kaimuki twice a year, as part of the City and County of Honolulu’s Adopt-A-Block program, which encourages residents and local business to make a commitment to improving the quality of Oahu’s communities. Our service day clean-ups are held twice a year, typically in April to celebrate Earth Month or May for NAR's REALTOR® Volunteer Day, and in October for Make-A-Difference month.
As REALTORS®, we have a desire and responsibility to be good neighbors and take care of the communities where we live, work and play. It’s important to us to promote a clean city and improve the quality and condition of our community and the ‘āina.
Volunteers worked alongside each other to beautify blocks near the Honolulu Board of REALTORS® 12th Avenue headquarters, including cleaning up streets and collecting trash. Volunteers also mark storm drains with “No dumping” placards as a reminder to keep trash and debris out of the storm drain system, reduce residential spills, and encourage overall neighborhood stewardship. Adopt-A-Block volunteers from the Honolulu Board of REALTORS® include members of the Board's leadership, Community Service Committee members, REALTORS®, and loan officers. Family members and non-REALTOR friends are also welcome to volunteer.
The City Council meets on March 8 at 10 A.M., and will hear bills to increase development of affordable rental housing on Oahu. The Affordable Rental Housing Report and Ten-Year Plan (July 2018), published by the Special Action Team on Affordable Rental Housing Report pursuant to Act 127 (Session Laws of Hawai’i 2016), states, in part, “Although many reasons contribute to the lack of affordable rental housing units for low- and moderate-income households, the primary reason is a poor rate of return for investments in affordable rental housing projects.”
City Council Chair Ernie Martin presided over his last City Council meeting on Wednesday, December 5 at Honolulu Hale. The Honolulu Board of REALTORS® (HBR) says aloha to Chair Martin after working with him during his eight years in office. He has been a great advocate of homeowners and affordable housing, was a strong leader for his district, Mililani Mauka to Kahaluu, and an important ally to HBR and issues impacting REALTORS® including real property taxes.
