STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1062

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1093

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1093, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's powers relating to housing projects.

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

Your Committee finds that the concentration of public housing has been shown to reduce opportunities for the low-income families these projects are meant to assist. Neighborhoods with high concentrations of low-income families often struggle with higher crime rates, fewer jobs, and poorer performing schools. This measure would shift the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's focus to achieve its long-term goals of decentralized poverty and redeveloping existing public housing projects into mixed-income communities.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1093, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair