Download or read book The Determinants of the Housing Choices of Military Families written by William R. Forster and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DOD) currently spends $8.2 billion dollars a year on military housing and housing allowances and yet there is no empirical model of the housing choices that military families make. This thesis creates a model of the housing choices of military families and then uses the model to predict the effects that changes in several policies would have on the housing decisions of military families. The changes in housing choices are then combined with current 1997 force structure data to predict both the monetary costs and benefits of each policy change. Data from the 1992 Surveys of Officer and Enlisted Personnel and their Spouses are weighted to reflect current force structure levels and are used with the multinomial logit technique of maximum likelihood estimation to develop a model that both gives insight into what factors influence military families' housing decisions as well as how policy changes would affect those housing choices. In particular, changes in policies pertaining to tour length, military pay, and closing costs are investigated. The results from the analyses can assist DOD leadership in making decisions that could save millions in housing costs each year.
Download or read book An Evaluation of Housing Options for Military Families written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) to conduct a new study of military family housing. Previous studies concentrated on comparing the costs of military owned housing with housing allowances that are provided to personnel who rent or purchase civilian housing. This study complements previous efforts by investigating the preferences of military families for different kinds of housing, the methods they use to find housing at new locations, and the factors that are important in their choice of housing. The data for these investigations were collected through a survey of families assigned to 12 bases with varying housing situations. The analyses and the survey data should be of interest to policy makers and analysts concerned with military housing programs, the support of active duty families, and the role of housing benefits in the compensation package. Readers interested only in the findings of the study should focus on the first two chapters. The other chapters will be of interest to readers interested in the analytic methods and detailed results.
Download or read book An Evaluation of Housing Options for Military Families written by Richard J. Buddin and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) to conduct a new study of military family housing. Previous studies concentrated on comparing the costs of military owned housing with housing allowances that are provided to personnel who rent or purchase civilian housing. This study complements previous efforts by investigating the preferences of military families for different kinds of housing, the methods they use to find housing at new locations, and the factors that are important in their choice of housing. The data for these investigations were collected through a survey of families assigned to 12 bases with varying housing situations. The analyses and the survey data should be of interest to policy makers and analysts concerned with military housing programs, the support of active duty families, and the role of housing benefits in the compensation package. Readers interested only in the findings of the study should focus on the first two chapters. The other chapters will be of interest to readers interested in the analytic methods and detailed results.
Download or read book A Model of Housing Choice Behavior for Military Families written by Franklin L. Gertcher and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a multinomial logit model which explains the effects of the current Department of Defense (DOD) housing program on military family housing choice behavior in a three sector housing market. The model was applied to data on military families assigned to installations within the continental United States. The paper concludes with a presentation of empirical results and a brief discussion of the possibilities for further research. (Author).
Download or read book The Determinants of Locational Choice for Air Force Military Renters written by Eldrick Hill and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing allowances and military family housing make up approximately $7 billion dollars of the budget for the Department of Defense (DoD). The military uses a Housing Market Analysis (HMA) to determine rental housing availability around its installations. This thesis describes and analyzes the locational choices of military renters. This thesis examines 16 bases in the continental U.S. using military and census data. It is concluded that the locational preferences of military renters vary inversely with distance from their duty location and this needs to be accounted for when assessing the availability of military rental housing. The implications of military renter locational preferences are also examined for travel costs and locational specific housing allowances.
Download or read book Discovery written by United States Air Force Academy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Personnel written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Family Housing Preference Survey written by Susan S. Stumpf and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questionnaires were administered by mail to a sample of 16,961 married military personnel and 13,625 spouses in the continental United States. The sample was designed to control for paygrade, urbanization level (rural, urban, or metropolitan) and type of housing occupied (government quarters, rented civilian housing, or personnally owned housing). Detailed information was obtained on housing style preferences, housing type preferences, potential impact of a fair market rental policy for government quarters, housing satisfaction, atttitude toward various proposed policy changes, career motivation, and perceived quality of life. A correlational model predicted that personal/situational factors, housing choice behavior, and housing attitudes would all be associated with perceived quality of life and career intention. The model's predictions were generally supported, except that housing choice behavior was unrelated to either variable. Both were related to housing attitudes and personal/situational factors with quality of life showing the stronger association with these variables (Military R's = .56 and .41, respectively). (Author).
Download or read book Housing Prices Housing Choices and Military Housing Allowances written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Housing written by Carol R. Schuster and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DoD estimates that about 200,000 military family housing (MFH) units are old, lack modern amenities, & require renovation or replacement. To improve MFH more economically & faster, Congress authorized a 5-year pilot program, termed the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI), to allow private sector financing, ownership, operation, & maintenance of military housing. This report reviews the implementation of the MHPI to determine the status of current & planned MFH privatization projects, examine the accuracy of life-cycle cost analyses for proposed projects, & asses progress toward integrating the initiative with other MFH programs. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Department of Defense Family Housing Units written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Housing written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the U S Army s Residential Communities Initiative 1995 2010 written by Matthew C. Godfrey and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations, Energy & Environment."
Download or read book Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has been continuously engaged in foreign conflicts for over two decades. The strains that these deployments, the associated increases in operational tempo, and the general challenges of military life affect not only service members but also the people who depend on them and who support them as they support the nation â€" their families. Family members provide support to service members while they serve or when they have difficulties; family problems can interfere with the ability of service members to deploy or remain in theater; and family members are central influences on whether members continue to serve. In addition, rising family diversity and complexity will likely increase the difficulty of creating military policies, programs and practices that adequately support families in the performance of military duties. Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society examines the challenges and opportunities facing military families and what is known about effective strategies for supporting and protecting military children and families, as well as lessons to be learned from these experiences. This report offers recommendations regarding what is needed to strengthen the support system for military families.
Download or read book Military Families written by Edna J. Hunter and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Survey of Army Families written by Janet D. Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of a System to Determine the Economically Optimal Combination of Housing for an Air Force Installation written by Johnathan E. Hendrix and published by . This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Military is faced with the decision of how to house it's military members and their families. The three options available to house these families are: 1) utilize existing on-base housing; 2) build new on-base housing; or, 3) compensate a military family monetarily to find housing off- base. This research focused on the development of a tool to all the decision maker in determining what combination of the three options is economically optimal for an individual Air Force Installation. The model developed incorporates the costs associated to the local area and conditions at the specific installation to determine the cost associated with each of the three housing options. Current Air Force Policy is to house military families Off-Base once all existing housing On-Base is occupied. Only if the local community can not meet the housing requirements of the Air Force Installation will funds be appropriated to build new housing. This current policy forces housing decisions to be made without the benefit of understanding the economically optimal combination. The model developed identifies this optimal combination to the user, as well as the savings to Installation if it is used. By changing the input into the model, any Air Force Installation could identify the economically optimal housing strategy. Performing sensitivity analysis on the variables used in the decision process will display the effect of any changes in the value of the input variables. Overall, the model provides a decision tool that can be used to make better informed decisions and can be easily manipulated to produce the economically optimal combination of housing for any Air Force Installation.
