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Minutes for SB376 - Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Short Title

Expanding Kansas housing programs to facilitate economic development by broadening the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to allow use of bond proceeds for construction of residential dwellings and buildings and to include the city of Topeka, increasing availability of loans or grants to rural communities for moderate income housing, establishing a program for urban communities for moderate income housing and permitting housing developments to include manufactured or modular housing.

Minutes Content for Mon, Feb 7, 2022

The Chairman open the hearing and called upon Jason Long for revisor review of the bill.

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The Chairman called for proponent testimony on the bill and begin the process with his personal testimony.

The Chairman started off the proponent testimony for this new Kansas housing initiative commenting that the bill expands the Rural Housing Interest District to include Topeka, KS and would increase the economic development initiative fund to the state Housing Trust Fund from $2m to $20m in FY23/FY24.

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Proponent Allie Divine demonstrated her coalition's support of the bills and reiterated the on going quest for housing initiative dollars from general funds.

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Proponent Ross Vogel emphasized that the Kansas Housing  Resource Corporation program for moderate income housing is a very productive, but unfortunately underfunded program.

(Attachment 19)

Proponent Derek Lee declared that his organization intended to develop in rural areas where the incentives are available.

(Attachment 20)

Proponent Alex Orel stood in support of both housing initiative bills.

(Attachment 21)

Written-Only Proponents:

John Goodyear, League of Kansas Municipalities

(Attachment 22)

Mark Tomb, Kansas Association of Realtors

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Lance Cochran, Housing Development Corp. of Central Kansas

(Attachment 24)

Jonathan Goering, Thrive Allen County

(Attachment 25)

Martha Neu Smith, Kansas Manufactured Housing Association

(Attachment 26)

Julie Brewer, United Community Services of Johnson County

(Attachment 27)

Eric Brown, Salina Area Chamber of Commerce

(Attachment 28)

Neutral Ryan Vincent repeated the need for more affordably accessible housing options and quantified how much more could be accomplished with the addition of funding sources addressed today.

(Attachment 29)

Seeing no further testimony the Chairman closed the hearing on the bill.