STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1126-22

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2022

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2251

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2251, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to develop mixed-income and mixed-financed housing projects; and

 

     (2)  Prohibit the development or construction of such housing projects on ceded land that is vacant on or after January 1, 2022.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Hawaii Association of REALTORS, and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action, and Kupuna for the Moopuna.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that according to testimony received by your Committee from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, concentrating public housing for extremely low-income families in dense urban areas has not shown to be an effective use of scarce affordable housing resources.  Instead, a shift has been made to create financially viable and socially stable mixed-income housing by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.  The Hawaii Public Housing Authority also indicated that the mixed-income and mixed-finance redevelopment model is a proven and successful redevelopment model nationwide and is supported and encouraged by the federal government, which provides the Authority with over $140,000,000, or eighty-seven percent, of its total yearly funding to house its most disadvantaged populations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2251, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2251, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

 

 

 

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NADINE K. NAKAMURA, Chair