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Stakeholders warn working group in SB 2342 could sideline public QAP process
Summary
Catholic Charities and other stakeholders told the House Housing Committee that SB 2342’s creation of a legislatively mandated working group risks circumventing the open, federally conditioned Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) process and could change scoring in ways that raise rents and narrow developer participation.
The House Housing Committee heard testimony against SB 2342 SD2 on March 20, as Catholic Charities and other housing advocates warned that a legislatively formed working group could limit public input into the Qualified Allocation Plan process and change scoring criteria in ways that would increase rents.
Betty Lou Lars of Catholic Charities Hawaii told the committee she supported revising the QAP but said "it should be open to the community." She said one concern is that increasing…
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