Environmental Assessment for the Privatization and Construction of Single Family Housing in Magnolia Grove, Lowndes County, Georgia
Abstract
The Air Force operates and maintains approximately 104,000 family housing units at its installations throughout the United States. More than 50 percent of the units do not meet current modern standards and requires either major improvement or replacement. Despite this, at most installations the demand for adequate housing on-base exceeds supply. The lack of adequate Military Family Housing (MFH) forces many military members and their families to live in housing in need of repair, renovation, replacement, or to live off-base, where the cost and quality of housing vary considerably. Often, the cost to the military member and their families to live off-base are 15 to 20 percent greater than the cost to live on-base. The Air Force estimates that as much as $7 billion would be needed to bring its housing up to current standards and to address the deficit of housing with an additional 5,000 new housing units (AFCEE, 2004). In recognition of these problems, Congress enacted Section 2801 of the 1996 Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 104-106, codified at Title 10 of the United States Code [U.S.C.] Sections 2871- 2885). Also known as the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI), this provision of law creates alternative authorities for improvement and construction of military family housing. The legislative intent of Congress in enacting these additional authorities was to enable the military to obtain private sector funding to satisfy Family Housing requirements. By leveraging scarce public funding, the Air Force can obtain private sector funds for construction, maintenance, management, renovation, replacement, rehabilitation, and development of Air Force MFH and ancillary supporting facilities.1 The Department of Defense has asked the Air Force to upgrade all required, inadequate housing before Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA637319
Entities
People
- Elizabeth Faruber
- Jeff Dorman
- Jennifer Jarvis
- Kelley Parse
- Michael J. Moran
- Michelle Cannella
- Patrick Solomon
- Terry Haas