Pennsylvania HR 105: A Resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study on the availability, type and demand for supportive housing.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 887
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 105
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, GIRAL, SANCHEZ, WAXMAN, HILL-EVANS,
MADDEN, HOWARD AND MALAGARI, MARCH 10, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
MARCH 10, 2025
A RESOLUTION
Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a
study on the availability, type and demand for supportive
housing.
WHEREAS, Supportive housing is a cost-effective combination
of affordable housing with services that helps provide
individuals with stability and a path toward recovery; and
WHEREAS, Supportive housing can benefit vulnerable
individuals and families struggling with very low incomes,
chronic health conditions, issues with substance abuse, mental
illness, homelessness or at risk of homelessness; and
WHEREAS, In 2023, 12% of this Commonwealth's population lived
below the poverty line; and
WHEREAS, There were 447,000 adults in this Commonwealth with
a serious mental illness in 2021; and
WHEREAS, In 2023, an estimated 12,556 individuals in this
Commonwealth were experiencing homelessness on any given night;
and
WHEREAS, In 2023, there were 4,721 overdose deaths in this
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Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, As of 2024, six in ten Americans live with at least
one chronic disease; and
WHEREAS, Research shows that supportive housing has positive
effects on housing stability, incarceration rates, mental and
physical health and health care savings; and
WHEREAS, It is important for the Commonwealth to assess
supportive housing as an option for those in this Commonwealth
struggling and living in unstable conditions; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives direct the Joint
State Government Commission to study supportive housing options,
including both temporary and permanent supportive housing, the
availability of supportive housing and the demand for both
temporary and permanent supportive housing; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission provide
policy recommendations and objectives for medium-term and long-
term needs of supportive housing in this Commonwealth to enable
the General Assembly to plan for future supportive housing
demand; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission issue a
report with its findings and recommendations no later than 18
months after the adoption of this resolution to the President
pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the
Senate and the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the House
of Representatives.
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