Military Housing Performance Insight Act
The Military Housing Performance Insight Act would modify the existing semi-annual report on privatized military housing. The core change is to require more detailed and transparent data about privatized housing programs, including what data the Department of Defense uses and seeks from management companies, how housing data informs on-base housing decisions, and the limitations and processes behind resident satisfaction data. The bill also adds a public reporting requirement, mandating that, within 30 days after submitting each report, the DoD publish it on a publicly accessible website. In short, the bill aims to increase transparency and public accountability for privatized on-base housing by expanding data disclosures and making reports publicly available.
Key Points
- 1Adds new content to the semi-annual DoD privatized housing report describing the housing data the Department uses and data it seeks from private management companies.
- 2Requires an explicit assessment of how each military department uses housing data to inform on-base housing decisions.
- 3Requires an explanation of the limitations of customer satisfaction data (including survey availability), the process used to determine resident satisfaction, and reasons why data may be missing.
- 4Encourages granular reporting by installation and by individual housing project, to the maximum extent practicable.
- 5Establishes a public reporting requirement: not later than 30 days after submitting a report, the Secretary of Defense must publish the report on a publicly available DoD website.
- 6Renames the report section heading from “Annual” to “Semi-annual.”
- 7Updates cross-references in the section to reflect the revised numbering of subparagraphs.