Military Housing: Information on the Privatization of Unaccompanied Personnel Housing

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Abstract:

Partly in response to concerns that inadequate housing might be contributing to servicemembers decisions to leave the military, Congress enacted the MHPI in 1996. The initiative gave the Department of Defense DOD legal authorities to replace or renovate inadequate housing for unaccompanied military personnel those without dependents and military families using private-sector financing, ownership, operation, and maintenance. Certain military personnel receive the BAH, which can be used to pay rent to live in privatized housing. Since 1996, DOD has built and modernized on-installation unaccompanied personnel housing using military construction funds. According to a February 2013 DOD report to Congress, from fiscal years 1996 through 2012, DOD spent over 20 billion of military construction funds to build and modernize on-installation housing for unaccompanied military personnel. GAO was asked to review DODs efforts to privatize unaccompanied housing. GAO discusses the 1 analyses the military services conducted to make decisions about privatizing housing for unaccompanied personnel and 2 status of housing projects the military services have privatized for unaccompanied personnel. GAO obtained and reviewed fiscal years 1996-2013 housing plans and analyses the services conducted, reviewed information on privatization projects, and interviewed DOD and service officials. GAO is not making recommendations in this report.

Author(s):
No Author(s) Identified
Author Organization(s):
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
Descriptive Note:
Congressional rept.
Supplementary Note:
Report to the Subcommittee on Readiness, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.
Pagination:
0029

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release; Distribution Is Unlimited.

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
GAO-14-313
Monitor Series:
GAO
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_4.7.2_Installation Services; JCA_4.7_Base and Installations Support; JCA_4.6.1_General Engineering; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_6.4_Information Assurance; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.2.3_Share Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5.6.3_Assess Achievement of Objectives; JCA_5.6_Monitor; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_4.1_Deployment and Distribution; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_4_Logistics; JCA_5.5.2_Task
Communities of Interest:
Human Systems
Descriptor(s):
*HOUSING(DWELLINGS), CONSTRUCTION, MILITARY FACILITIES, MILITARY PERSONNEL, PRIVATIZATION
Field(s)/Group(s):
Personnel Management and Labor Relations
Keyword(s):
GAO REPORTS, UNACCOMPANIED PERSONNEL, BAH(BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING)
Report Date:
2014 Mar 01
Creation Date:
2014 Apr 14