TENANTS' HOUSING COMPLAINT DATABASE REMAINS ON HOLD

摘要

Defense officials say they are running into roadblocks in creating a publicly available database for complaints about military privatized housing units, as required by law. The publicly available database would allow tenants of housing units to file a complaint about issues with their housing unit for inclusion in the database. Information is expected to include the name of the installation, the name of the landlord responsible. for the housing unit, and a description of problem they are having. It won't include personally identifiable information, but it would be available to anyone, including other military families, military leaders and privatized housing landlords. The database requirement was one of the reforms enacted by Congress to address pervasive issues with mold, water intrusion, rodent and insect infestation and other problems brought to light by military families in 2019. In some cases, families had difficulty getting landlords to fix the problems, and their concerns weren't being heard by their military leaders. That complaint repository hasn't been established, said DoD spokesman Peter Hughes. "Given budgetary, contract and Privacy Act issues, it will take time before the department is able to establish such a database," he said.