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Honolulu works to centralize city property inventory; administration has 11 parcels queued for affordable housing
Summary
The Department of Housing and Land Management and the mayor's Chief Data Officer briefed the committee on plans to build a centralized property data repository and reported that the administration has identified 11 city parcels for an initial affordable housing rollout and has issued multiple requests for qualifications.
City officials told the Committee on Housing, Homelessness and Parks on Sept. 24, 2025, that they are building a consolidated, searchable database of city-owned properties and have identified a first set of 11 properties to pursue for affordable housing development.
Kevin O'Shea, director designee for the Department of Housing and Land Management, said the department is assembling an inventory required by the city charter and that the work will centralize records now scattered across multiple systems. Kira Chucham, the mayor’s chief data officer, described a planned central data repository that will ingest departmental systems, GIS layers and external sources for validation and…
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