STAND. COM. REP. NO. 294

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1394

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1394 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to enter into contracts with eligible developers to develop public housing projects in exchange for mixed use development rights.

 

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

 

     Your Committees find that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's ability to develop new housing for Hawaii's lowest income populations should be expanded.  Your Committees also find that the financial self-sustainability of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority's developments will improve if the Authority can create incentives for partnerships with market-rate housing developers.  This will provide tenants of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority with improved access to commercial services and employment opportunities.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1394 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair