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STAND. COM. REP.   NO.IIj(O~I~
                                    Honolulu, Hawaii
                                           MAR 29       2023
                                    RE:   H.C.R. No. 138
                                          H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred N.C.R. No.
138 entitled:
       “HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII HOUSING
       FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO PROMOTE SUPPORTIVE
       HOUSING IN THE STATE’S LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT
       PROGRAM,”
begs leave to report as follows:
     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Housing
Finance and Development Corporation to promote supportive housing
in the State’s Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program.
     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition, Catholic Charities
Hawai’i, AARP Hawai’i, and four individuals. Your Committee
received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance
and Development Corporation.
      Your Committee finds that supportive housing combines
affordable housing with access to services to help the special
needs community live more stable and productive lives.   Supportive
housing has been demonstrated to decrease high use of emergency
services and public systems, ultimately generating significant
cost savings to taxpayers.
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     Your Committee further finds that the Low-Income Housing Tax
Credit Program is a major financing tool for the construction or
rehabilitation of low-income rental units.  The Hawaii Housing
Finance and Development Corporation is the administrator for the
State of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program and developed a
Qualified Allocation Plan that sets forth criteria to evaluate and
allocate the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to certain projects.
Your Committee believes it is in the best interest of the State to
promote the development of supportive housing under the State’s
Low—Income Housing Tax Credit Program through an amendment to the
Qualified Allocation Plan.
     Your Committee notes that the Hawaii Housing Finance and
Development Corporation indicated in its testimony that it is too
late to amend the 2023-2024 Qualified Allocation Plan.   The
Corporation also noted it convened a working group in January 2023
to consider changes for the 2024-2025 Qualified Allocation Plan,
which is to be approved some time in August 2023.  As such, the
next opportunity to amend the Qualified Allocation Plan will be in
January 2025.
     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:
     (1)   Urging the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development
           Corporation to amend the 2025-2026, rather than the
           2023—2024, Qualified Allocation Plan for the Low—Income
           Housing Tax Credit Program to facilitate supportive
           Housing; and
     (2)   Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
           purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 138,
as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form
attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 138, H.D. 1.
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                                 Respectfully submitted on
                                 behalf of the members of the
                                 Committee on Housing,
                                  TR Y N.~HIMOTO,             Chair
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                                                      House of Representatives
                                                    The Thirty-second Legislature
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                                   Record of Votes of the Committee on Housing
Bill/Resolution No.:                              Committee Referral:                          Date:
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D    The committee is reconsidering its previous decision on the measure.
The recommendation is to:        C       Pass, unamended (as is)     B’Pass, with amendments (HD)           C Hold
                                 C       Pass short form bill with HD to recommit for future public hearing (recommit)
                  HSG     Members                                   Ayes           Ayes (WR)            Nays               Excused
1.    HASHIMOTO, Troy N. (C)
2.    AIU, Micah P.K. (VC)                                          V
3.   EVSLIN, Luke A.                                                ii
4.   KILA, Darius K.
5.   KITAGAWA, Lisa
6.   MARTEN, Lisa                                                  V
7.   ONISHI, Richard H.K.
8.   TODD, Chris
9.   MATSUMOTO, Lauren                                               1/
                       TOTAL (9)                                   —7
The recommendation is:               ~“Adopted                  ~I Not Adopted
                                     If joint referral,                              did not support recommendation.
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Vice Chair’s or designee’s signature:
Distribution: Original (White)   —   Committee            Duplicate (Yellow) — Chief Clerk’s Office     Duplicate (Pink)   —   HMSO