DoD enters decades-long barracks lease as lawmaker warns privatization push lacks accountability tools

The Defense Department has locked itself into another decadeslong lease to privatize military barracks — expanding a housing model that has posed significant challenges for military family housing for decades. The move, a Senate lawmaker warns, will limit the Pentagon’s ability to change contract terms and hold private companies accountable for poor living conditions.

Last year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) pressed the Pentagon for details on its plan to privatize barracks, starting at Fort Irwin in California. New responses from the Pentagon reveal that DoD has locked in a lease running through 2079 with the Michaels Organization, a private housing developer.

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