STAND. COM. REP. NO.1248

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.R. No. 19

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.R. No. 19 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII TO INVESTIGATE AND QUANTIFY ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WORKING POOR AND FAMILIES ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE IN FEDERAL LOW INCOME HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ask the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to investigate the alleged economic disparity between families in federal public housing with earned income and those on public assistance.

Testimony in support of the intent of the measure was submitted by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that it is the policy of the State to foster and encourage economic self-sufficiency for families living in federal low-income housing. The State should determine how best to do so. It may be that those families on public assistance have a greater percentage of cash flow than those families with earned income.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 19 and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair