Hawaii 2024 Regular Session

Hawaii House Bill HCR218 Compare Versions

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1	1	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.
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3	3	HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H.C.R. NO. 218
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37	37	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.
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45	45	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
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47	47	WHEREAS, the Governor has identified the State's chronic shortage of affordable housing as the number one economic threat to Hawaii's families; and
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51	51	WHEREAS, an estimated twenty-four thousand additional housing units are needed to meet the State's current affordable housing demands; and
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55	55	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
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59	59	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
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63	63	WHEREAS, rising rent prices are making military housing increasingly unaffordable for civilian tenants who do not receive a basic housing allowance; and
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67	67	WHEREAS, in 2023, rent prices increased by as much as $1,250 per month for some civilian tenants of military housing; and
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71	71	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
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75	75	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,
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79	79	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:
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87	87	(2) The total number of occupied military housing units;
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95	95	(4) The number of military housing units occupied by civilian tenants, including Department of Defense employees, civil service employees, and military retirees;
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99	99	(5) Any changes in rent prices of military housing units for the preceding year; and
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103	103	(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
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107	107	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.
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115	115	OFFERED BY: _____________________________
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129	129	DOD; Military Housing; Housing Crisis; Rent Prices; Report