Fighting for our troops on the home front: disabled tenants in military housing sometimes face discrimination. Litigation can enforce their rights against the private companies that manage base housing.

Trial, September, 2006 by Goracke, Monica; Heller, Roger; Ni, Victoria

Much of the housing on military bases is in poor shape. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has made improving it a top priority, recognizing that quality military housing is crucial for troop morale, readiness to fight, recruitment, and retention. (1) In one of the largest privatization projects ever launched by a federal agency, DOD is giving private developers and management companies a chance to own, operate, maintain, and improve thousands of housing units on military bases across the country. (2)

At the same time that privatized military housing is becoming increasingly common, the population of disabled people living on military bases is likely to be growing. More than 17,000 U.S. soldiers have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at least 450 have...

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