STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1192

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1395

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning and design for up to one hundred fourteen affordable housing units at the Kapaa public housing project site in Kapaa, Kauai.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

Your Committee finds that the Kapaa public housing project is a federal public housing property that consists of thirty-six units and was constructed nearly sixty years ago. The Hawaii Public Housing Authority's Ka Lei Momi Project aims to redevelop certain underutilized state assets into ten thousand new affordable housing units statewide through developing a combination of different housing types and to deconcentrate poverty within the State's communities and empower low-income families by providing them with greater access to better healthcare, schooling, and job opportunities. This measure would redevelop the Kapaa public housing project as a part of the Ka Lei Momi Project, with a one-to-one replacement for all existing units on the site and add an additional seventy-eight units to help house more residents in the State. Your Committee notes that the total budget for the Ka Lei Momi Project is $62,200,000.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Reinserting an appropriation amount of $2,000,000;

(2) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) 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 H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1395, H.D. 1, 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