Privatized military housing is now being inspected by all the military service branches. The Navy and the Marine Corps join the Army and Air Force by examining 100% of the PPV, or public-private venture, housing on military bases. The change to inspections was a listed requirement as part of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The Marine Corps began inspections via an independent contractor on January 18, 2022. The Navy began inspections in the fall of 2021. The completion of inspections will be complete by October of 2022, the beginning of Fiscal Year 2023. Per a release by the Navy in the fall of 2021, the inspections are being conducted by Jacobs/HDR JV and each inspection would be signed off by a certified inspector.
The inspections include interior and exterior inspections with special attention to heating and cooling systems in addition to landscaping, equipment drainage, common areas, and building systems. Any concerns seen by the inspectors are to be reported to the military housing office and the housing management company. The reports include physical and operational assessments of the homes. These inspections being added to the 2020 NDAA was in response to a Reuters series revealing concerns found in privatized housing. The Department of Defense then released a tenant bill of rights for service members and began the move to inspect homes. Inspection notices go to tenants two to three weeks prior to the scheduled inspection and then a reminder is sent 48 hours prior to the inspection.
The Army began inspections in January of 2021 with completion intended to be September 2021. The Air Force has not released an update on when inspections began or the goal of completion.
The results of the inspections are shared not just with the local base but will eventually be shared with the base commanders in addition to Congress.
Want to read more about the recommendations for inspections from the Government Accountability Office? Check out this 2020 release here.
If you live on a military installation, has your home been inspected?
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Sarai
Hello, We live in Military Housing on Hunter AAF in Savannah, Georgia We are both disabled, I’m a Disabled Veteran and we just started our 4 year of living on this base starting the 1st of March. In your article you wrote .that the Army Inspected the housing from January 2021 to September 2021, well I don’t know where you got your information from but in the 3 years that we have lived here the only thing that has gotton inspected is the air-condition / Heating unit. As far as the rest of the housing it has Never been inspected since we moved in 2019. So someone is blowing smoke up someone’s butt and the money allocated to this Base housing is not being used for the correct purpose !! If you need any further Info please contact me.
For several years I have been trying to find out which bases rent to “civilians”. I am Retired Military and have been on many bases throughout my travels. I would really like to live on a base so everything would be convenient for me. Over the last few years I have asked how to find out which bases have civilian housing. I asked through the newsletters I receive from a couple bases. No one seemed to be privy to this information, except for the base the newsletter was coming from.