STAND. COM. REP. NO.  575

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 906

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 906 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to establish an Affordable Housing Inventory Advisory Commission within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide annual reports to the Legislature and to make recommendations to state or county agencies to encourage the development and preservation of affordable housing.

 

     The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) and City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services opposed this bill.

 

     Testimony noted that the creation of an advisory commission attached to HHFDC will not accomplish the objectives of preserving affordable rental housing and may not be necessary.  Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to look further into those concerns.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services & Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 906 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services & Housing,

 

 

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair