STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2006

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2541

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2541 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDERLY HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide funding to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the redevelopment of its administrative offices on School Street and for the design and construction of an elderly-only housing complex at the same location.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Community Alliance for Mental Health.

 

     According to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, all of its elderly housing properties include non-elderly tenants with disabilities, and converting existing public housing properties to elderly-only housing involves an administratively burdensome process due to United States Department of Housing and Urban Development requirements.  Your Committee finds that funding the construction of new elderly-only housing units will help the Authority meet the increasing need for elderly housing in the State and enable elderly people to age in place with fellow elderly people.  Your Committee also finds that funding redevelopment of the Authority's administrative offices at the same location as the new elderly-only housing complex will enhance the Authority's capacity to meet the needs of the State's elderly population that will be residing at the new elderly-only complex.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2541 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair