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
1 Directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a
2 study on the availability, type and demand for supportive
3 housing.
4 WHEREAS, Supportive housing is a cost-effective combination
5 of affordable housing with services that helps provide
6 individuals with stability and a path toward recovery; and
7 WHEREAS, Supportive housing can benefit vulnerable
8 individuals and families struggling with very low incomes,
9 chronic health conditions, issues with substance abuse, mental
10 illness, homelessness or at risk of homelessness; and
11 WHEREAS, In 2023, 12% of this Commonwealth's population lived
12 below the poverty line; and
13 WHEREAS, There were 447,000 adults in this Commonwealth with
14 a serious mental illness in 2021; and
15 WHEREAS, In 2023, an estimated 12,556 individuals in this
16 Commonwealth were experiencing homelessness on any given night;
17 and
18 WHEREAS, In 2023, there were 4,721 overdose deaths in this
 1 Commonwealth; and
2 WHEREAS, As of 2024, six in ten Americans live with at least
3 one chronic disease; and
4 WHEREAS, Research shows that supportive housing has positive
5 effects on housing stability, incarceration rates, mental and
6 physical health and health care savings; and
7 WHEREAS, It is important for the Commonwealth to assess
8 supportive housing as an option for those in this Commonwealth
9 struggling and living in unstable conditions; therefore be it
10 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives direct the Joint
11 State Government Commission to study supportive housing options,
12 including both temporary and permanent supportive housing, the
13 availability of supportive housing and the demand for both
14 temporary and permanent supportive housing; and be it further
15 RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission provide
16 policy recommendations and objectives for medium-term and long-
17 term needs of supportive housing in this Commonwealth to enable
18 the General Assembly to plan for future supportive housing
19 demand; and be it further
20 RESOLVED, That the Joint State Government Commission issue a
21 report with its findings and recommendations no later than 18
22 months after the adoption of this resolution to the President
23 pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
24 Representatives, the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the
25 Senate and the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the House
26 of Representatives.
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