Department of Community Services

Special Needs Housing

Properties for Non-Profit Organizations

Community Based Development Division

The Division leases certain City properties to qualified, private nonprofit organizations to provide housing and services for special needs groups, pursuant to Section 28-3.5, Revised Ordinances of Honolulu 1990, as amended (“ROH”).

WHAT IS A SPECIAL NEED?

    • Disabled, including developmentally disabled
    • Persons with mental illness, including serious mental illness
    • Elderly
    • Elderly and disabled
    • Chronically homeless
    • Households experiencing homelessness (individuals, youth, families, families with minor children) that need support services
    • Victims of domestic violence

Of the 63 properties in DCS’s special needs inventory,

    • 23 serve developmentally disabled or persons with mental illness
    • 11 serve the elderly
    • 11 provide emergency shelter or transitional housing (families and youth) and 3 provide permanent rental housing for households experiencing homeless
    • 2 provide housing or shelter for victims of domestic violence
    • 7 provide support for youth and young adults

If you would like to sign up to register you and your organization to receive notices of solicitation and funding availability from our Division whenever they become available, click HERE to be forwarded to the Department of Budget and Fiscal Services Purchasing website for Goods, Services and Concessions.  Follow the instructions to register and we hope to partner with you soon!

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