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Abstract
The uniformed services currently own and operate some 400,000 family housing units, making the Department of Defense the nation’s largest landlord. This generally unrecognized form of public housing has three unique features. First is the use of capital grants, in the form of direct Congressional appropriations embedded in the Defense Department budget, rather than credit for construction funds. Second is that the military family-housing system is an entitlement program; everyone who meets the rank and length of service criteria has a right either to free housing, as available, or a housing allowance. Third is the successful abolition of racial segregation in military-family housing. The military’s family-housing program offers some important features that might profitably be incorporated into a program to provide all Americans with decent, affordable housing.
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Chester Hartman
Chester Hartman is a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC.
Robin Drayer
Robin Drayer is Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago’s Department of Law.