Chad A. Woods

Date of Award

3-20-2009

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Systems Engineering and Management

First Advisor

Todd A. Peachey, PhD

Abstract

Providing military family housing has always been a difficult task for the United States government. To solve the latest housing short fall, the government signed the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) into law in 1996. Under this program the government contracts private developers to build, own, and operate housing units. The developer then collects rent through housing allowance payments. At the time MHPI was signed into law, military members were expected to pay 15 percent of their housing costs out of pocket. Subsequent legislation has increased housing allowance to provide 100 percent of all housing costs eliminating out of pocket housing expense to the military member. Given the increased housing allowance, the objective of this research was to determine if there is financial value to the government to retain ownership of family housing. This was done by calculating the Net Present Value (NPV) of recapitalizing BAH payments into family housing operations over 50 years, the contract period for privatized housing projects. The results show that MHPI provided the greatest financial benefit to the government at the time it was signed into law. This advantage changed however, when housing allowance increased eliminating out of pocket housing expense to the member.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GFA-ENV-09-M03

DTIC Accession Number

ADA499472

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