Draft NDAA Seeks to Cut Housing Costs for Military Families
May 23, 2024
John M. Donnelly
Roll Call
Draft NDAA Seeks to Cut Housing Costs for Military Families
May 23, 2024
John M. Donnelly
Roll Call
Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash., is among the lawmakers pushing to increase the Pentagon's Basic Housing Allowance. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)
By John M. Donnelly, Roll Call / May 16, 2024
The House Armed Services Committee will take up a defense authorization bill next week that would authorize the Pentagon to spend $1.2 billion to increase housing allowance payments for U.S. servicemembers.
If the draft National Defense Authorization Act becomes law with that provision intact — and, more importantly, if appropriators provide those funds — it would address one of military families’ top five complaints about their quality of life, according to a 2023 Blue Star Families survey.
For some servicemembers who live in parts of the country where housing is particularly expensive, such as Washington state, the issue is the No. 1 concern about military life.
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