Bill Text: HI SR129 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requesting The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands To Conduct An Analysis And Provide Data On The Number Of Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands Beneficiaries Who Have Applied For And Need Housing In Each County, By Income Classification And Unit Type.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2020-07-08 - Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR129 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SR129-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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SENATE RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TO CONDUCT AN ANALYSIS AND PROVIDE DATA ON THE NUMBER OF DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS BENEFICIARIES WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR AND NEED HOUSING IN EACH COUNTY, BY INCOME CLASSIFICATION AND UNIT TYPE.
WHEREAS, the United States Congress passed the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act in 1921, which was authored by Prince Kuhio Kalanianaole, and which dedicated 203,000 acres of land in Hawaii to benefit native Hawaiians; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the Act was, and is, to restore the cultural link between native Hawaiians and the land and to provide native Hawaiians the stability, financial equity, and economic self-sufficiency that comes from land and home ownership; and
WHEREAS, since the Act was signed into law almost one hundred years ago, only approximately ten thousand homesteads have been resettled and nearly twenty-eight thousand beneficiaries remain on the waitlist; and
WHEREAS, for the future of native Hawaiians and their well‑being, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is mandated to fulfill its purpose by providing housing for native Hawaiian beneficiaries; and
WHEREAS, in 2019 a study was conducted for the Hawaii Housing Development Corporation of the housing need of Hawaii residents by area median income (income classification), preference for ownership or rental of housing (preferred tenancy), and single‑ or multi‑family unit (unit type) per county (the 2019 Hawaii Housing Planning Study); and
WHEREAS, among native Hawaiian households, twenty percent had at least one member on the waitlist to receive a Department of Hawaiian Home Lands award (23,883 households) on which they intended to reside and of those households, only about three-quarters (seventy-three percent) were sure that they intend to have a house on that land; and
WHEREAS, an additional 21,399 native Hawaiian households stated that they have a household member eligible to apply for a Hawaiian home lands lease but were not yet a leaseholder nor an applicant; and
WHEREAS, the study was conducted based on the housing need of Hawaii residents, in general, and did not specifically include the housing need of Hawaiian homes beneficiaries; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2020, that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is requested to conduct an analysis and provide data on the number of Department of Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries who have applied for and need housing in each county, by income classification and unit type; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the data also include the number of Department of Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries who are not included in the data because they could not be contacted or have never applied for a housing lease; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the data requested in this measure be submitted to the Legislature in a form consistent with Table 33 of the 2019 Hawaii Housing Planning Study no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2021; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation.
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Beneficiaries; Housing; Report
