STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3075

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2665

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to include, as part of a request for proposals for the construction or renovation of a public housing project, a price preference or scoring bonus for a person who proposes to redevelop concurrently low-income housing units on adjacent real property.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure offers a worthwhile incentive for developers to build or renovate the maximum number of affordable housing units possible to help ease the shortage of affordable units in the State. 

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2665, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Tourism and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair