Bill Text: HI SB912 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Housing Placement Program; Homelessness; Affordable Housing; Homeless Programs Office; DHS; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB912 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB912-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HOUSING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that chronic homelessness in Hawaii is a serious problem. One of the many barriers faced by homeless persons is the lack of available rental housing. The legislature also finds that King county, in Washington state, created the landlord liaison project in March 2009 to help homeless clients obtain private market rental housing. The landlord liaison project created incentives for landlords to relax their screening criteria for homeless people who face barriers in accessing permanent housing. In the first ten months of the project, the King county landlord liaison project was quite successful. One hundred forty-seven households were placed in permanent housing, and ninety-six per cent of the client households retained their housing six months after moving in. The legislature finds that Hawaii would greatly benefit by funding a similar housing placement program to help increase the availability of rental housing for persons who face obstacles in moving from homelessness to permanent housing and persons with lower incomes who need to find affordable rental housing.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for the housing placement program.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $2,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2011-2012 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2012-2013 for the funding of the housing placement program within the homeless programs office of the department of human services.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.
Report Title:
Housing Placement Program; Homelessness; Affordable Housing; Homeless Programs Office; DHS; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds for the housing placement program within the homeless programs office of the department of human services; funds to be expended by the department of human services. (SD1)
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