Advocates were calling on lawmakers to consider a bill that would have set baseline protections for tenants displaced by the construction of a new affordable housing development.
The bill would have affected projects under the Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation completed with public funds. Tenants displaced by these projects would have received at least three months of rent, or they would have been allowed to return to a comparable unit in the new development at the same rental rate.
The measure passed out of the House and Senate but died Friday while awaiting a conference committee before it could go to a final vote…