B.  Residential Leases

 

Cross References

 

  Infrastructure development fund (Kikala-Keokea), see§171-19.5.

 

§171-70  Findings and declaration ofnecessity.  It is hereby found and declared that:

(1)  There is a shortage within the State of landssuitable for residential use, available to persons whose incomes andcircumstances are such that they do not qualify for or do not require publiclyprovided low-rent housing accommodations and who are able to secure financingfor the construction of their own homes, but who are unable through lack ofsufficient financial ability to purchase land in fee simple or to pay thepremiums for the rentals under leases offered by private landowners;

(2)  This group includes persons whose residentialproperty has been taken for public purposes and who, while they have receivedthe full and fair value of their property, by purchase or condemnation, areunable to replace the property taken with the proceeds paid or other availablefunds because of the shortage of similar property in the community;

(3)  This group also includes those persons who are inlow-rent housing accommodations and are discouraged from increasing theirannual income for fear that they may forfeit their low-rent public housing;

(4)  Experience has demonstrated that when publiclands are subdivided and sold in fee simple at public auction, for residentialuse, the demands for residential property have forced the price of such landsbeyond the financial reach of the persons previously mentioned, and that neitherthe program of opening public lands for sale in fee simple as residence lots,nor the programs for providing low-rent public housing, for urban redevelopmentor for urban renewal are adequate or designed to provide the opportunity forsuch persons to provide themselves with decent, safe, sanitary, and uncongestedresidence accommodations consistent with their financial ability and necessaryto provide the environment conducive to promoting their own and theirchildren's good citizenship;

(5)  To alleviate this shortage of land suitable forresidential use, to promote home ownership on as widespread a basis aspossible, and to promote the accomplishment of the purposes of the programs forpublic low-rent housing, urban redevelopment and urban renewal, including theelimination of slum and other conditions detrimental to the public health,safety, and welfare, it is necessary that public lands be made available onterms within the financial means of those residents who, because of theshortage before mentioned, are unable to purchase public or private lands infee simple or to lease private lands for use for residential purposes.  Makingpublic lands available for such purposes, pursuant to this part, is herebydeclared to be a public purpose. [L 1962, c 32, pt of §2; Supp, §103A-66; HRS§171-70]