Bill Text: HI HCR218 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting The United States Department Of Defense To Provide An Annual Report To The Legislature On The Availability And Affordability Of Military Housing In Hawaii.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-22 - The committee(s) on CMV recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HCR218 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HCR218-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	218
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the united states department of defense to provide an annual report to the legislature on the availability and AFFORDABILITY of military housing in hawaii.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Governor has identified the State's chronic shortage of affordable housing as the number one economic threat to Hawaii's families; and

 

     WHEREAS, an estimated twenty-four thousand additional housing units are needed to meet the State's current affordable housing demands; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii hosts more than two hundred fifty thousand military or military-affiliated personnel and their families, including more than forty-four thousand active duty members, twenty thousand civilians, forty-five thousand dependents, and eighteen thousand retirees; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Department of Defense makes rental housing units available for all active duty military members and eligible military-affiliated civilians, including some Department of Defense employees, civil service employees, and military retirees; and

 

     WHEREAS, rising rent prices are making military housing increasingly unaffordable for civilian tenants who do not receive a basic housing allowance; and

 

     WHEREAS, in 2023, rent prices increased by as much as $1,250 per month for some civilian tenants of military housing; and

 

     WHEREAS, civilian tenants who can no longer afford military housing may seek to rent privately owned housing, further exacerbating the State's affordable housing shortage; and

 

WHEREAS, the State would benefit from receiving annual data on the availability and affordability of military housing, to more fully assess Hawaii's current and future needs for affordable housing; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, the Senate concurring, that the United States Department of Defense is requested to provide a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session, beginning with the Regular Session of 2025, on the availability and affordability of military housing in Hawaii, including:

 

     (1)  The total number of vacant military housing units;

 

     (2)  The total number of occupied military housing units;

 

     (3)  The number of families, if any, on waiting lists for military housing;

 

     (4)  The number of military housing units occupied by civilian tenants, including Department of Defense employees, civil service employees, and military retirees;

 

     (5)  Any changes in rent prices of military housing units for the preceding year; and

 

     (6)  The number of tenants who declined to renew their lease in the preceding year, for reasons other than a permanent change of duty station; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy, United States Army Pacific Commanding General, United States Navy Pacific Fleet Commander, United States Pacific Air Forces Commander, United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific Commander, and United States Coast Guard District Fourteen Commander.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

DOD; Military Housing; Housing Crisis; Rent Prices; Report