STAND. COM. REP. NO. 190

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 901

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 901 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for a landlord liaison project within the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Catholic Charities Hawai‘i and the Hawai‘i Association of REALTORS.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

     Your Committee finds that chronic homelessness in Hawaii is a serious problem and that the creation of a landlord liaison project modeled after a successful project in Washington State will help to alleviate this problem by removing many of the obstacles faced by homeless persons attempting to move into permanent housing.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 901 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,

 

		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair