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Veteran and former service member testifies on privatized military housing failures and supports Homefront Act

House Committee on Natural Resources — Subcommittee on Federal Lands · December 12, 2025
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Summary

A retired chief warrant officer recounted prolonged mold, sewage and oversight failures in privatized military housing and backed the Homefront Act, which would change historic-preservation application and ban nondisclosure agreements in privatized housing, according to witnesses.

At the subcommittee hearing, retired Chief Wachtendorf described years of health problems, repeated relocations and failures in privatized military housing and urged passage of the Homefront Act to protect military families and remove procedural obstacles that delay repairs.

Wachtendorf said his family…

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