STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2211

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2315

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2315 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to gather certain data as part of its housing advocacy and information system.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

Your Committee finds that a critical challenge in the development of affordable housing is a lack of data. Even for affordable housing developed by the State, there is insufficient information on the number of units that have been completed and the number of projects under development. This measure requires that the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation gather certain data on housing and affordable housing development in the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation of $320,000 for the Corporation to contract with a consultant to develop an information system and to hire a research assistant to manage the system; and

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

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. 2315, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2315, S.D. 1, 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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STANLEY CHANG, Chair