Bill Text: HI SB2226 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Housing Costs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2226 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB2226-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HOUSING COSTS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. (a) The Hawaii housing finance and development corporation shall conduct an affordable housing cost study that measures the factors that influence the cost of building affordable housing, breaks down total development costs for affordable housing, and enables the State to maximize resources allocated for affordable housing. The study shall also measure the factors that influence the cost of building market rate housing to compare with the factors that influence the cost of building affordable housing.
(b) The study shall be based on data from all affordable housing projects within the State that are supplemented by affordable housing resources such as the low-income housing credit established by Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the housing finance revolving fund. The study shall consider data collected from these sources, beginning in the calendar year 2014 through 2021.
(c) The Hawaii housing finance and development corporation
shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any
proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the
convening of the regular session of 2023.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $250,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for the purpose of conducting the affordable housing cost study; provided that no funds appropriated under this Act shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar with federal funds.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.
Report Title:
Affordable Housing; Cost Study; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Report; Appropriation
Description:
Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to conduct an affordable housing cost study. Requires a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2023. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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