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i I I I THE SENATE IL I THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 0 a NU STATE OF HAWAII JAN 2 1 2021 E"i E N"A T E K Eb'-*"0" L U T 10"IN' I REQUESTING THE COUNTIES TO STUDY HOW INCLUSIONARY ZONING IMPACTS HOUSING SUPPLY. 1 WHEREAS, inclusionary zoning is a housing policy that 2 requires a certain percentage of housing units in a new 3 residential development to be priced as affordable for people 4 with low to moderate incomes; and 5 6 WHEREAS, the goals of inclusionary zoning policies include 7 promoting economic and racial integration, providing access to 8 opportunities such as better employment and schools for poor and 9 working families, and increasing the supply of affordable 10 housing; and 11 12 WHEREAS, research on inclusionary zoning policies indicates 13 that inclusionary zoning can actually reduce the amount of 14 affordable housing available in a particular area; and 15 16 WHEREAS, this unintended effect results from, among other 17 factors, developers building high rent housing in the same 18 project in order to subsidize the affordable housing units, or 19 developers choosing not to build in areas in which inclusionary 20 zoning applies; and 21 22 WHEREAS, there is a severe shortage of affordable housing 23 across the State, and some or all of the counties have adopted 24 inclusionary zoning policies in an attempt to increase the 25 supply of affordable housing; and 26 27 WHEREAS, to ensure that these inclusionary zoning policies 28 are increasing affordable housing instead of having the 29 unintended opposite effect of decreasing the supply of 30 affordable housing; now, therefore, 31 32 BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty--first 33 Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2021, 34 that the counties that have implemented inclusionary zoning 35 policies are requested to conduct a study of how those policies 2021-0222 SR SMA.doc EXHIBIT A