STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2477

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2193

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Housing and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2193 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require inclusion of an unspecified minimum percentage of affordable housing units in state agencies' development and redevelopment plans along the rail transit corridor; and

(2) Allow the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to make exceptions to the affordable housing requirement.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Office of Planning and Sustainable Development.

Your Committees find that the State has a critical need for the development and construction of affordable housing units for residents of the State. Transit-oriented development associated with the construction of a rail transit system in Honolulu has the potential to fulfill the State's need for affordable housing. This measure requires that state agencies include affordable housing in their development and redevelopment plans along the rail transit corridor.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring state agencies to consult with the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation in the formulation of their development and redevelopment plans;

(2) Inserting a minimum percentage of fifty percent for units that must be reserved for residents of the State who are occupants of their units and own no other real property; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2193, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2193, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Transportation,

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ STANLEY CHANG, Chair