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Defense Housing

DoD's housing program provides housing to military service members and their families. DoD does this in two ways -- by providing Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) to service members (who find housing in the community or in privatized housing) or by providing members DoD-owned housing.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The purpose of the program is clearly defined - - to provide quality housing for our service members.
  • The program has clear and ambitious goals. At the end of 2006, DoD had eliminated over 145,000 inadequate units, fewer than projected. At the end of 2006, DoD owned approximately 35,000 inadequate housing units, higher than was projected. DoD continues to address the unique challenges of bringing private and public sectors together to meet the goals of the program.
  • DoD should reduce the federal role by privatizing more government-owned housing. DoD has reduced the federal role in housing by increasing allowances - - by eliminating service member's average out-of-pocket expenses for housing.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working toward meeting yearly targets so that DoD can eliminate all inadequate housing in the U.S. by 2007.
  • Privatizing government-owned housing, where feasible, so that military service members and their families can live in quality housing and reduce the role of government in housing.

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