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B-156615 1 (1972-06-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagiz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 2UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION LM096513 B-156615 L June 27, 1972 The Honorable The Secretary of Defense Attention: Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dear Mr. Secretary: The General Accounting Office has made a survey of the re10o -atable family housing program' of the Department of the Air Force to explore the feasibility of extending the program to meet family housing needs of other departments within the Department of Defense (DOD). We found that relocatable housing not only can be moved and reused at less than the cost to construct conventionally-built housing, but also it compares favorably in features and livability. Therefore, wider use in the DOD family housing programs appears to have merit. SCOPE OF SURVEY The survey involved about 800 relocatable units at four Air Force installations. It covered relocatables originally erected at Glasgow Air Force Base (AFB), Montana, and moved in the period May to November 1969 to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and those erected and still located at Minot AFB and Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota. We examined intothe recent Air Force experience in relocating some of the homes and compared the principal advantages and disadvantages of relocatables with those of conventionally-built units. Cost records for construction and operation and maintenance for both relocatable and conventionally-built units at these installations were also examined. We interviewed civil engineers and housing officials to obtain their opinions on the relative maintenance problems and livability of both types of units. We also interviewed a number of occupants of relocatable units for their views on how these units compared with military conventionally-built units and other quarters they had lived in. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ B E S T D O C Ui E T A V A I L A B L E

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