Bill Text: HI HCR5 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Affordable Housing Credits; Counties; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Construction Industry Task Force
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-07 - The committee(s) on OMH recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HCR5 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-HCR5-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
Urging the counties to continue to implement section 46-15.1, Hawaii revised Statutes (act 141, session laws of hawaii 2009, as amended), to facilitate the development of affordable housing projects planned by the department of hawaiian home lands.
WHEREAS, the intent of Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009 (Act 141), was to stimulate the development of affordable housing by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and provide a more reasonable and convenient means of satisfying the housing requirements of the Department by enhancing the feasibility of projects with large affordable housing requirements; and
WHEREAS, Act 141 amended the counties' statutory housing powers under section 46-15.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by requiring each county to issue affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands with respect to existing or future Hawaiian home lands projects upon the request for these credits by the Department; and
WHEREAS, the affordable housing credits are transferrable and are required to be issued on a one-unit-for-one-unit basis; and
WHEREAS, these affordable housing credits may be applied county-wide within the same county in which the credits were earned and may be used to satisfy affordable housing obligations imposed by a county on market-priced residential and non-residential developments; and
WHEREAS, Act 141 was intended to precipitate the building of more affordable housing through the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and
WHEREAS, the Department has over twenty thousand families on the waitlist, and Act 141 was intended to provide affordable housing to these families in order to free existing housing units to the general public; and
WHEREAS, furthermore, Act 141 was expected to have additional positive residual effects, such as increasing employment in the construction industry, and more effectively meeting the high demand for affordable housing units in the State; and
WHEREAS, subsequently, the Legislature passed Act 98, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012 (Act 98), to further amend the counties' affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands stated that since the passage of Act 141, the Department has worked with each county to request and acquire affordable housing credits for completed units in the Department's homestead communities; and
WHEREAS, despite the Department's efforts, Act 98 was needed to clarify the use of the affordable housing credits because the affordable housing requirements varied from county to county and impacted the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in disparate ways; and
WHEREAS, Act 98 provided the following:
(1) Clarified that the affordable housing credits shall be issued for each single-family residence, multi-family unit, or other residential unit, or if allowed under the county's affordable housing programs, vacant lot, developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands;
(2) Provided that county-wide and project-specific housing class, use, or type requirements, among other requirements, shall not be applied to impair, restrict, or condition the county's obligation to apply the credits in full satisfaction of all county requirements; and
(3) Defined "affordable housing obligation"; and
WHEREAS, in 2009, the Legislature adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 132, S.D. 1, which established the construction industry task force (task force) to determine the economic value of the construction industry in Hawaii; and
WHEREAS, as directed in the Concurrent Resolution, the task force was charged with developing a series of recommendations to stimulate the construction industry and create new jobs in the local construction industry; and
WHEREAS, introducing a resolution to urge the acceptance and implementation of Act 141 by the counties to facilitate the development of affordable housing planned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands was one of the task force's recommendations; and
WHEREAS, to date, no such resolution was introduced and adopted by the Legislature; and
WHEREAS, furthermore, under Act 141, as amended, the counties' statutory housing powers with respect to issuing affordable housing credits to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands will be repealed on June 30, 2015, making the implementation of Act 141 even more urgent; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2014, the Senate concurring, that the counties are urged to continue to implement section 46-15.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes (Act 141, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as amended), to facilitate the development of affordable housing planned by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Mayor of the County of Kauai, Mayor of the County of Maui, Housing Administrator of the Office of Housing and Community Development of the County of Hawaii, Director of the Department of Planning and Permitting of
the City and County of Honolulu, Director of the Kauai County Housing Agency, and Director of the Department of Planning of the County of Maui.
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Affordable Housing Credits; Counties; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Construction Industry Task Force
