A U.S. senator who has been an outspoken critic of the military’s privatized family housing wants answers from the Defense Department about its plans to privatize more barracks.
“Given the significant challenges that privatization has imposed on military family housing for decades, directly resulting from the substantial failures of private housing providers, I am alarmed that the Department of Defense is considering expanding privatization to unaccompanied military housing (i.e., barracks),” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in a letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Warren is one of a number of lawmakers who have worked for years on efforts to improve housing for military families.
The Michaels Organization, in partnership with the U.S. Army, began construction at Fo