MILITARY HOUSING: Management Improvements Needed As the Pace of Privatization Quickens

Abstract

Renovating or replacing 168,000 inadequate military family housing units using traditional military construction methods would take over 20 years and cost about $16 billion. In 1996, to improve housing faster and more economically, Congress authorized the Military Housing Privatization Initiative to allow private-sector financing, ownership, operation, and maintenance of military housing. At the request of the Subcommittee on Military Construction, House Committee on Appropriations, GAO examined the reliability of military housing needs assessments, as well as achievement of privatization financial goals and government protections in contract provisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA402831

Entities

People

  • Carol R. Schuster

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Base Closures
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Family Size
  • Governments
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • United States
  • Websites

Readers

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