Housing Demand and Department of Defense Policy on Housing Allowances.

摘要

The complexity of the current system of housing allowances has hampered efforts by DoD to explain this system to Congress. As a result, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is reviewing the policy and considering the possibility of making major changes in it. This report provides information to support OSD's deliberations. In particular, it provides data on recent trends in the demand for housing by households outside DoD, as well as data from the recent economics literature on the demand for housing. Taken together, this information forms the basis for a proposed reform of DoD's policy of housing allowances that makes the policy simpler and more efficient without sacrificing any of DoD's basic goals for housing policy.