{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-tillis-question-private-military-housing-providers-on-reports-they-have-denied-access-and-failed-to-provide-appropriate-on-base-housing-to-military-families-with-disabilities", "Warren, Tillis Question Private Military Housing Providers on Reports They Have Denied Access And Failed to Provide Appropriate On-Base Housing to Military Families With Disabilities", "2020-12-22", "2020", "2020-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "December 22, 2020\n\t\t\t Warren, Tillis Question Private Military Housing Providers on Reports They Have Denied Access And Failed to Provide Appropriate On-Base Housing to Military Families With Disabilities \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t These letters follow troubling reports revealing that private military housing providers at multiple installations across all four Services may not be complying with federal laws that protect Americans with disabilities.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t Text\r\nof Letters (PDF) Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren\r\n(D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Thom Tillis\r\n(R-N.C.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Military Personnel\r\nSubcommittee, sent letters to top executives at six major private military\r\nhousing companies requesting information about the on-base housing units they\r\ndeveloped and manage to determine whether military families are being denied\r\naccess to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant housing. In July 2020, the Military Housing Advocacy Network (MHAN), a nonprofit\r\norganization that advocates for military families to make sure that they have\r\naccess to safe and appropriate conditions in on-base, privatized housing, released\r\nfindings from a survey of military families with disabilities revealing\r\nthat private military housing companies that have partnered with the Department\r\nof Defense (DoD) do not appear to be following federal laws that protect\r\npersons with disabilities. \"These findings paint a clear and troubling picture of housing problems\r\nfor thousands of servicemembers and their families and are yet another example\r\nof how private military housing companies are padding their pockets with\r\nprofits at the expense of our women and men in uniform. Our military families\r\nshould have access to safe, accessible, high-quality housing and deserve better\r\nthan this,\" Senator Warren said in a statement shared with her\r\nletters. The DoD's Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) provides 137,000 military\r\nfamilies with special needs with necessary services and support throughout the\r\nUnited States and at DoD installations worldwide, including access to ADA\r\nhousing and/or reasonable accommodations to the home for disabled persons. A\r\nsurvey of these families by MHAN revealed that they faced significant barriers\r\nto acquiring their housing; some never received these homes or\r\naccommodations, and many waited exceptionally long periods of time before their\r\nneeds were approved or met. Some said their requests for accommodations\r\nwere challenged by housing management. In order to better understand why EFMP military families are not receiving\r\nADA-compliant homes or reasonable accommodations, Senators Warren and Tillis\r\nhave requested answers to their questions no later than January 15, 2021. This letter builds on Senator Warren's investigative and legislative\r\noversight of private housing providers in the Military Housing Privatization\r\nInitiative (MHPI). Last year, Senator Warren released\r\nfindings from her three-month-long investigation of MHPI and of the five\r\nprivate companies that have contracts with the DoD revealing how and why\r\nprivate military housing developers have failed to meet basic housing\r\nstandards, which in some cases, resulted in severe health problems for military\r\nfamilies. In response to her findings, Senator Warren introduced the Military\r\nHousing Oversight and Service Member Protection Act, which seeks to provide\r\nsolutions to substandard military housing and empower service members and their\r\nfamilies by: 1) requiring the DoD to establish guidance for how it enters and\r\nrenews housing contracts and standardizes all lease agreements it signs; 2)\r\nguaranteeing medical care for affected service members and their families; 3)\r\nestablishing tenant protections that give service members and families a\r\nstronger voice in dealing with private housing companies; 4) creating a new\r\ncomplaint database accessible to all tenants; and 5) requiring the disclosure\r\nof contracts and financial statements from each housing provider. ###\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t \n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n    \n    \n    \t\n    \t\n\t    \t  \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tNext Article\n\t\t    \n\t\t    \n\t\t    \tPrevious Article", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-tillis-question-private-military-housing-providers-on-reports-they-have-denied-access-and-failed-to-provide-appropriate-on-base-housing-to-military-families-with-disabilities"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.598364906385541, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}