Military services “may be allowing” military families to move into housing with significant health and safety hazards thanks to a lack of proper maintenance oversight, the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General found.

A new report looked at how the military oversees private maintenance by one of its largest private operators for military family housing. The report, “Audit of the Military Services’ Oversight of Privatized Military Housing Maintenance,” found failings both by a large private operator and by the military staff on base in charge of overseeing family housing. It also found inconsistently addressed maintenance work, which put military families at risk of several hazards. Hunt Military Communities (Hunt)

Each installation has its own Military Housing Office, or MHO

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