HB1265 would require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide the communities with manufactured homes or shipping containers converted into homes for low-income families. DLNR would work with the Department of Human Services and the private sector to develop these communities.
“We would work with not just housing agencies, but various agencies. If they need it for a specific purpose, we’d set aside the land, essentially transfer the management of the lands to them,” explained Ian Hirokawa from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Bob Nakata of Faith Action for Community Equity testified in support of these micro-units. “The model we have cost us $11,000 and even that is very low, but it does bring housing within reach of more of the people of this state,” he said.
These communities would be reserved for families with incomes no more than 250 percent of the federal poverty level. Lawmakers with the House Committees on Housing and Human Services approved the bill. It now heads to the Water and Land Committee for review.
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