Fast tracking Tenant Bill of Rights

WASHINGTON – The Defense Department’s four military services are preparing a joint Tenant Bill of Rights for military housing to ensure safe, quality homes and communities, and clear rights while living in them. It is intended to increase the accountability of privatized housing companies by putting more oversight in the hands of local military leaders. The three service secretaries have seen first-hand and reviewed problems in housing units. The Tenant Bill of Rights is intended to help remedy issues by protecting and empowering service members and their families. The Tenant Bill of Rights will be enforced through renegotiated leases with the privatized housing companies, and will be implemented in the coming weeks. (Source: US Navy 03/08/19) Gulf Coast Note: Military housing in Mississippi includes NAS Meridian, Keesler AFB and Columbus AFB. Louisiana: NAS/JRB New Orleans and Barksdale AFB in Bossier City. Alabama is home to Maxwell-Gunter AFB near Montgomery. Florida is home to Eglin and Tyndall AFBs, Hurlburt Field, NAS Pensacola and NAS Whiting Field in the Panhandle, and MacDill and Patrick AFB in the southern part of the state.