Family Housing: DOD Procedures to Identify Housing Needs Can Be Improved

Abstract

DOD operates a family housing program to ensure that married members of the armed forces and their families are adequately housed. Although the program includes approximately 406,000 government-owned or government-leased housing units worldwide, DOD'S longstanding policy is to rely on local private housing markets in communities near military installations as primary sources of family housing. To the extent that the private market cannot support military family housing, the services request funding to either lease or build housing on or near installations. Overall responsibility for the program rests with the Defense Housing Office under the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations). Each of the military services manages its own family housing program: the Naval Facilities Engineering Command for the Navy, the Corps of Engineers for the Army, and the Directorate of Housing for the Air Force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1987
Accession Number
AD1171633

Entities

People

  • Frank C. Conahan

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • California
  • Communities
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Construction
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineers
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Instructions
  • Logistics
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • North Carolina
  • Surveys
  • United States

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Housing Policy Studies in Military Families with Privatization and Telomerase Allowance Units, Multi-Family Housing, and Telomere Lengths.