HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	57
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

REQUESTING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE HAWAII HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO CREATE A REDEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN FOR KUKUI GARDENS AND MAYOR WRIGHT HOMES.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are large affordable housing complexes located in Palama in the City and County of Honolulu; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens is a low-rise complex comprised of eight hundred fifty-seven affordable units, and it houses approximately twenty-five hundred residents; and

 

     WHEREAS, Mayor Wright Homes is a low-rise complex comprised of three hundred sixty-three units that have continuously suffered from maintenance problems; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii is in need of more affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income households; and

 

     WHEREAS, homelessness and a shortage of affordable housing continue to be two of the State's most significant and challenging social problems; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Hawaii Public Housing Authority indicates that the waiting list for public housing is approximately seven thousand people; and

 

     WHEREAS, Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes are located in an area zoned by the City and County of Honolulu as an A-2 medium-density apartment district with regulated building heights of one hundred fifty feet; and

 

     WHEREAS, a rail transit stop is planned nearby on Dillingham Boulevard; and

 

     WHEREAS, lower income families are among those most likely to use public mass transit; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes properties are not being utilized to their highest and best use; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State owns half of Kukui Gardens, all of Mayor Wright Homes, and a strip of land located on Liliha Street between the two complexes; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the Senate concurring, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation are requested to create a master plan to redevelop Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes while also utilizing the state-owned strip of land located on Liliha Street to include mixed use commercial and residential market rate housing as well as low- to moderate-income housing; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, on behalf of itself and the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, is requested to submit a report of any findings and recommendations relating to a master plan to redevelop Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2011; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Kukui Gardens and Mayor Wright Homes; Development; Master Plan