HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

36

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CREATE A REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN and more housing units FOR KUKUI GARDENS AND MAYOR WRIGHT HOMES.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are low-rise affordable housing complexes located in the Palama area of the City and County of Honolulu; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens is a forty-year-old low income housing complex comprised of three hundred eighty-nine units; and

 

     WHEREAS, Mayor Wright Homes is comprised of three hundred sixty-three units that have continuously suffered from maintenance problems; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii is in need of more affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income households; and

 

     WHEREAS, homelessness and a shortage of affordable housing continue to be two of the State's most persistent and challenging social problems; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority reports that as of January 4, 2013, there were 11,603 families on the waiting list for federal public housing and 8,173 families on the waiting list for state public housing; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are located in an area zoned by the City and County of Honolulu as an A-2 medium-density apartment district with regulated building heights of one hundred fifty feet; and

 

     WHEREAS, a rail transit stop is planned near this area on Dillingham Boulevard; and

 

     WHEREAS, lower income families are among those most likely to use public mass transit; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes properties are not being utilized to their highest and best use; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State owns all of Kukui Gardens, all of Mayor Wright Homes, and a strip of land located on Liliha Street between the two complexes; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State would benefit from a master plan for housing in this highly urbanized area; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the Senate concurring, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to create a master plan to redevelop and create more affordable housing units for Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes, while also utilizing the state-owned strip of land located on Liliha Street, to include mixed use commercial and residential market rate housing as well as low- to moderate-income housing; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, is requested to submit a report, including findings and recommendations, on the master plan to redevelop and create more affordable housing units for Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2014; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Executive


Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan