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Committee backs 5-year community land trust pilot; committee notes $25 million example appropriation for 50 units

2641938 · March 14, 2025
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The Senate Committee on Housing passed HB 833 with amendments to authorize a five-year community land trust equity pilot administered by HHFDC, and the committee record will note an example $25 million appropriation for 50 units at $500,000 each.

The Senate Committee on Housing voted to pass HB 833 with amendments, authorizing the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to establish a five-year community land trust equity pilot program and enabling a line of credit to community land trusts for acquisition, rehabilitation, renovation or construction of housing for qualified residents.

Under the committee’s amended language, income restrictions in section 2A will be replaced with the term “qualified residents” as defined in HRS 201H-32. The committee also directed priority to…

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