What impact will privatization have on individual installations?
Ideally, privatization will bring about a dramatic improvement of the installations’ housing conditions for service members and their families, and consequently, an increase in their quality of life, readiness, morale and retention. Major improvements include the quality of housing and responsiveness of maintenance on the housing units. However, some inconveniences will be experienced throughout the transition period during which houses will neeed to be either renovated or constructed, service members may have to relocate from older to improved/new homes, and property management will be handed over to the developer. Nevertheless, this period will hopefully be short, the transition will be relatively smooth, and its benefits will outweigh all of the costs incurred.
