Bill Text: HI HCR12 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Assessment of Farm Worker Housing Needs Working Group

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-02 - Referred to HSG, WAL, FIN, referral sheet 7 [HCR12 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-HCR12-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	12
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE convening OF a working group to CONDUCT A NEEDS-BASED ASSESSMENT OF farm worker housing throughout the state.

 

 

     WHEREAS, affordable housing in general is scarce in Hawaii primarily because of the cost of land and construction; and

 

     WHEREAS, farmers that have long-term agricultural land leases, particularly those which are long-term lessees of agricultural and non-agricultural parks, are frequently unable to provide housing for workers; and

 

     WHEREAS, shortages in adequate farm worker housing reduce the numbers of available farm workers and contribute to increased difficulty for farmers in Hawaii who operate small farms to make their farms sustainable; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, the Senate concurring, that the Office of Planning, the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, and the Department of Land and Natural Resources are requested to convene a working group; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group is requested to conduct a needs-based assessment of farm worker housing throughout the State of Hawaii; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the working group is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor; Director of the Office of Planning; Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture; Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Housing; Chairperson of the House Committee on Agriculture; and Chairperson of the House Committee on Housing.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Assessment of Farm Worker Housing Needs Working Group