08/02/2026
Our military families throughout the nation continue to be attacked by the homes they live in. Toxic, moldy conditions, pest infestations and shoddy construction threaten every service branch and every rank. A Virginia military family is the focus of an investigation of privatized military housing by Emma Rose Brown of The Virginian-Pilot. For 30 years, military housing has been run by a cartel of private companies that are accountable to neither the military command nor state or local renter protections and health and safety regulations. Three generations of military members and billions of dollars later, the system remains broken. The housing crisis is a threat not only to the military families' health but also to their readiness. Many service members and their families remain sick from being forced to live in moldy, dangerous conditions. Sympathy and hoping for the best for our military families are not enough. Please call your member of Congress and urge him or her to support The MOLD Act in the NDAA, which would help put in place better safety standards, or give to a nonprofit like Change the Air Foundation, whose people are on the ground, walking the halls of state legislatures and Congress, urging legislative action and proper oversight. To learn more, take a look at the Foundation's landmark national survey and 10-minute video, The Hidden Enemy, which confirms the health hazards and unsafe living conditions reported by thousands of military families in privatized housing. The survey is among the most comprehensive independent examinations to date of housing conditions on U.S. military installations. Read the Virginian-Pilot report here:
https://www.pilotonline.com/2026/07/31/navy-family-military-housing-sick/?share=m2ulni0cs10cousf2n6e
