Final Report on the Audit of DoD Leasing of Family Housing at Ellsworth Air Force Base
Abstract
In October 1989, we announced our audit of DoD Leasing of Family Housing. One of the audit objectives was to determine whether the Services acquire family housing, under build-to-lease and other leasing arrangements, in compliance with Public Law 98-115 and DoD guidance. It is DoD's long standing policy to rely on local private housing markets in communities near Military installations as primary sources of family housing. When the private market cannot support Military family housing, the Services then request funding to either lease or build on or near Military installations. During the audit we found that a required housing market analysis was not performed to determine the availability of adequate private sector housing to satisfy family housing requirements at Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB). This condition resulted from a lack of Air Force guidance prescribing the requirement or methodology for conducting a housing market analysis. In June and August 1989, two separate contracts were awarded for the construction of 1,028 family housing units under Section 801, Build-to-Lease Program. Construction of 200 family housing units under one contract, at an estimated cost of about $24 million over the 20-year life of the lease agreement, was near completion. Construction of an additional 828 family housing units, at a 20-year cost of about $78 million, was to start in April 1990 with delivery of the final 104 units in September 1991.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 24, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA380946
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense