By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 16, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas – Army spouse Brittney Fourtner has trouble moving around after multiple back surgeries and found the carpet in her Fort Bragg, N.C., home especially difficult to navigate. For eight months after moving in, she requested the housing office remove it. Then in August, she tripped on it, fell and broke her back. After her injury, the company sent workers to fix the carpet. They used duct tape and told Fourtner if she wanted the carpet removed, it would cost her about $8,000. A House bill introduced last week attempts to clarify that private companies leasing to military families on bases cannot charge for needed upgrades to meet a resident’s disability.
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By STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 9, 2021 Is the tenant bill of rights that is supposed to help protect families in military housing more rhetoric than regulation? That is the belief of Sarah Kline, who works with the Military Housing Advocacy Network, and Leigh Tuttle, the wife of a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who has seen up close how corners can get cut with something as simple as replacing a carpet. In Part 2 of Military Matters look at the problems with military housing, co-hosts Rod Rodriguez and Jack Murphy discuss the issues with two military spouses who have been in the middle of the fight.
DoD needs to improve the way it calculates troops’ BAH rates, auditors say Privatized housing at Trumbo Point, an annex of Naval Air Station Key West. (Photo by Chris Carson) A new report on Basic Allowance for Housing supports some service members’ suspicions that they may be getting the short end of the stick when it comes to how much of their rent is covered by the military, says one advocate. The report, released by the Government Accountability Office, says defense officials need to do a better job collecting and monitoring the data used to set rates for Basic Allowance for Housing, to make sure the rates accurately reflect the cost of suitable housing for service members.