Hawaii Public Housing Authority
Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Human Services. [HB-224]
Establishes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority public housing tenant upward mobility pilot program. Permits the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to contract with outside parties to implement the program. Requires interim and final reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
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Relating To Housing. [SB-340]
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units without regard to civil service law. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Housing. [SB-338]
Creates the Department of Housing. Places the Hawaii Community Development Authority, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, and Hawaii Public Housing Authority under the Department of Housing for administrative purposes. Replaces the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism with the Director of Housing on the Hawaii Community Development Authority. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2023 Regular Session
Relating To Important Housing Lands. [SB-139]
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct a study identifying certain state-owned lands located within a one-half mile radius of any rail mass transit station, including lands owned by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and excluding lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, that are most suitable for constructing at least one hundred thousand housing units. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to conduct the study, or contract services to conduct the study. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Requesting The Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development To Convene A Multi-agency Working Group To Make Recommendations For Planning, Coordinating, And Implementing The Objectives And Policies For Housing In The Hawaii State Planning Act. [SCR-232]
Requesting The Office Of Planning And Sustainable Development To Convene A Multi-agency Working Group To Make Recommendations For Planning, Coordinating, And Implementing The Objectives And Policies For Housing In The Hawaii State Planning Act.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii Public Housing Authority. [SB-3265]
Allows the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to build non-subsidized housing.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [SB-3168]
Extends the sunset date for the ohana zones pilot program to 6/30/2026. Expands regulatory exemptions for ohana zones pilot program contracts. Appropriates funds to the governor for the ohana zones pilot program. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [SB-3018]
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, in consultation with the Department of Health and Department of Human Services to establish the kauhale program to provide individual or shared micro housing units and services to homeless individuals and families who meet the definition of homeless. Establishes an advisory committee. Requires reports to the Legislature. Exempts existing low-income rentals, tiny home villages, and kauhale from certain provisions for the duration of their underlying leases consistent with the Governor's 2015 and 2018
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Short-term Rental Assistance. [SB-2811]
Establishes the short-term rental assistance fund and short-term rental assistance program. Makes an appropriation.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Public Housing. [SB-2870]
Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish a formal procedure for the eviction of a tenant for marijuana use from public housing administered by the State. Requires the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to file for exemption to federal regulations on controlled substances. Allows tenants to be exempt from eviction for marijuana use, provided the tenant provides sufficient medical documentation. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [SB-2723]
Requires the State Rent Supplement Program to open its statewide waiting list and provide rent supplements to two hundred additional qualified tenants. Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the program, including funds for one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Public Housing Specialist II position within the Hawaii Public Housing Authority. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [SB-2588]
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the rehabilitation, remodeling, renovation, and repair of housing units. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Short-term Rental Assistance. [HB-1858]
Establishes the short-term rental assistance fund and short-term rental assistance program. Makes an appropriation.
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [HB-1826]
Establishes the long-term rental assistance pilot program for kupuna to be administered by the Hawaii public housing authority for individuals who are sixty-two years of age or older and are homeless or at imminent risk of becoming homeless. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [HB-1837]
Establishes a statewide working group on affordable housing to foster increased inter-agency coordination on housing and zoning issues, raise public awareness of ongoing state and county efforts to reduce barriers to affordable housing development, and propose legislation. Requires an annual report to the legislature. Appropriates funds to support the statewide working group, including one full-time equivalent position. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [HB-1859]
Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the State Rent Supplement Program and one full time (1.0 FTE) Public Housing Specialist II position. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Homelessness. [HB-1744]
Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bond proceeds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to begin the development and construction of permanent supportive housing units to meet the needs of chronically homeless individuals and families and other vulnerable populations in the State. Authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to consider any application from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority or partner, or both, for competitive federal low-income housing tax credits for the construction of these units. Establishes
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To The Hawaii Public Housing Authority. [SB-2504]
Establishes the housing choice voucher landlord incentive program. Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to adopt rules without regard to chapter 91, HRS, to establish specified incentives for landlords who participate in the tenant-based assistance housing choice voucher program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Requires that the Hawaii public housing authority adopt rules to establish a maximum of fifteen days after receipt of an owner's or landlord's inspection request as a reasonable time within which to inspect
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Broadband Infrastructure. [SB-2479]
Requires each public housing project and state low-income housing project that is built or reconstructed after 1/1/2023, to include all broadband infrastructure necessary for tenants to have access to broadband service. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2022 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [SB-2465]
Establishes the ALOHA Homes Program to develop low-cost homes on state-owned and county-owned land in urban redevelopment sites to be sold in leasehold by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to qualified residents. Exempts certain land from the definition of public lands. Requires Hawaii Public Housing Authority to gain legislative approval before disposing of certain lands. Provides for the disposition of lands acquired by the Hawaii Public Housing Authority but no longer needed for the ALOHA Homes Program. Appropriates funds.