New York City (Reuters) – A sweeping U.S. military housing reform strategy, pitched as a way to safeguard service families from substandard homes and unresponsive property managers, has been watered down to eliminate numerous protections renters and Congress had actually sought.
FILE IMAGE: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, speaks throughout a joint press conference with Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg,( unseen) in Kabul, Afghanistan February 29,2020 REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail
Congress ordered the Department of Defense to develop a tenant-rights costs for military families in 2015. Among the essential provisions needed: the capability for military households to withhold lease to oppose risky conditions, obtain full maintenance histories of their houses upon relocating, and obstacle proprietors through a conflict resolution process.
Though the rent and dispute resolution provisions were mentioned in the original draft launched last March, they were not consisted of recently when U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper unveiled the renter bill of rights. Fifteen other procedures are going ahead as planned.
The Defense Department removed the 3 steps after Pentagon authorities took a seat with the p