HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

123

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE hOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII TO PURCHASE THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU's twelve APARTMENT buildings.

 

 

WHEREAS, the City and County of Honolulu is contemplating selling hundreds of apartments in twelve buildings at Chinatown Gateway Plaza, Harbor Village, Marin Tower, West Lock Village, the old Bachelor's Quarters in Ewa, Chinatown Manor, Kanoa Apartments, Kulana Nani Apartments, Manoa Gardens Elderly, Pauahi Hale, Westlake Apartments, and Winston Hale; and

WHEREAS, these apartments provide shelter to thousands of low-income tenants who have depended on these apartments for many years; and

WHEREAS, the current buyers' housing market has resulted in the sale of many rental units statewide, as well as a considerable increase in rent for the remaining rentals; and

WHEREAS, plans for the sale of the twelve apartment buildings have caused undue anxiety and stress to the tenants of the twelve apartment buildings; and

WHEREAS, although the City and County of Honolulu is planning to sell the apartments to its current tenants, a more logical plan is to continue the use of the buildings as rentals to ensure that all of the tenants will be provided for; and

WHEREAS, the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii has the authority to purchase buildings for use as low-income rentals; and

WHEREAS, by purchasing these apartment buildings, the Corporation would be providing peace-of-mind to these tenants and ensuring the continued maintenance and up-keep of the buildings; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, the Senate concurring, that the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii is requested to purchase the City and County of Honolulu's twelve rental buildings; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Corporation is requested to retain the buildings in their current use as low-income rental housing; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, the Chairperson of the Honolulu City Council, the City Managing Director, and the Chairperson of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Requests the HCDCH to purchase the City and County of Honolulu's twelve apartment buildings for rental housing use.