STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2379
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2563
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2563 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENTAL HOUSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Make the projects of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority eligible for grants from the rental housing revolving fund;
(2) Make the Hawaii Public Housing Authority eligible for the lease of land from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation at token lease rent; and
(3) Revise the preferences and priorities for the funding of projects from the rental housing revolving fund.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
Your Committee finds that projects of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority are operated for low-income family and elderly renters and, consequently, provide affordable rental housing for the class of people who most need state assistance. Therefore, the Authority should have the opportunity to compete for funds from the rental housing revolving fund. This measure would also assist the Authority with its redevelopment projects within the transit-oriented development zones on Oahu, which are anticipated to increase the number of affordable housing units.
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. 2563 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,
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________________________________ BREENE HARIMOTO, Chair |
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