Bill 11 (2026) CD1 Affordable housing incentive reporting

At a glance

Based on human-uploaded captions that may contain errors; they cover the whole meeting (00:25 to 50:45).

What: a bill requiring the city to report to the Council on affordable housing incentives (grants, bonds, fee waivers, and similar city-provided help).
Where it stands: amended to a posted CD1 and reported out for passage on third reading on 2026-10-20, over the Land Management director's request not to advance it.
Next: third reading.

Kevin Auger, director of Land Management, said the department shares the goal of knowing whether the city gets good value, but the bill would be costly and not very useful: it defines affordable housing as up to 140% of area median income (covering about three quarters of Oahu households), would require valuing thousands of incentives such as variances and fee waivers, and would reach back to past projects.
He said the department was not consulted, offered to share tools already in development, and cited a university economic research prototype that modeled 62 small urban parcels and found expected production rising from roughly 100 units to nearly 1,700 with Chapter 32 incentives.
He noted Council agencies already face many mandated reports (about 73 in 1995 and closer to 80 now) and urged four questions before any new report: cost versus benefit, frequency, whether to codify, and how the Council would use it.
Dylan Armstrong supported the intent but asked for a rough cost and staffing estimate and whether any mapping tool would be a free, downloadable public data set.
Angela Melody Young was neither for nor against, suggested using information developers already file for financing and tax programs, and asked about coordination with state agencies.

Tupola clarified the bill covers only city funds, grants and bonds the city gives out, so the Council can tell constituents how affordable housing is being incentivized. She had also sent the bill to the university researchers about their interactive map. The director agreed to send suggested amendments.

About 12 minutes across 1 meeting (from transcript timestamps; approximate).

Meeting	Minutes
2026-10-20 - Housing Homelessness & Parks	12

2026-10-20 - Housing Homelessness & Parks - Director asked the committee not to advance it; amended to CD1 and reported out for third reading.