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The bill increases transparency and accountability for military housing through detailed, timely public reporting—helping identify problems and track progress—at the cost of added DoD administrative burden and potential privacy/operational-security risks if data are not carefully protected.
Military personnel, veterans, their families, and taxpayers will receive timely, installation- and project-level housing data and semiannual reports posted publicly, increasing transparency and enabling monitoring of housing conditions and contractor performance.
Military families and on-base residents will get clearer explanations of how resident satisfaction is measured and where survey gaps exist, helping identify and prioritize housing problems for remediation.
Detailed installation- and project-level reporting will increase DoD administrative workload and compliance costs, potentially diverting staff time and resources from other operations and services.
Public posting of more granular housing data could expose personally identifiable information or sensitive installation details if not properly redacted, creating privacy and operational-security risks for residents and installations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DoD to add four specific data and analysis items to semiannual on‑base housing reports, restructure report format, and publish each report online within 30 days.
Introduced September 17, 2025 by Sanford Dixon Bishop · Last progress September 17, 2025
Adds specific data and transparency requirements to the Department of Defense’s semiannual reports on on‑base housing. It requires DoD to report what housing data it collects and requests from private managers, explain how Service Secretaries use that data to make on‑base housing decisions, describe gaps and limits in customer satisfaction measures, and — when practicable — provide installation- and project-level breakdowns; it also requires public posting of each semiannual report on a DoD website within 30 days of submission. One other provision simply designates an official short title for the Act.