[Military Environmental Forum] HOUSING: "Georgia families slam privatized military housing for dangerous living conditions in new report"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Georgia families slam privatized military housing for dangerous living conditions in new report
You'd think Camp Lejeune would have been a lesson learned.

By Kait Hanson
We Are The Mighty
July 15, 2026 

A premature newborn with elevated lead levels, a child who missed nearly half the school year because of mold-related illness, and families reporting electrical fires, flooding and cockroaches infesting kitchen appliances.

These are among the allegations outlined in a scathing new report released by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff’s office, which details accounts from military families living in privatized housing at Fort Stewart and Fort Benning who say unsafe living conditions put their health and safety at risk.

“Our military servicemembers and their families make huge sacrifices for the country, and it’s a travesty how they’re being treated by privatized housing contractors in Georgia and nationwide,” Sen. Ossoff told Now Georgia. “The stories in this report should shock our conscience, and I will continue exposing the mistreatment of military families in privatized housing and working to protect them and improve conditions.”

The report, released July 8,2026, is the latest in Ossoff’s years-long oversight of privatized military housing in Georgia. 


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For the entire article, see
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-milspouse/georgia-families-slam-privatized-military-housing-for-dangerous-living-conditions-in-new-report/

For the Ossoff report, see https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/26.07.08_DANGEROUS-CONDITIONS-IN-PRIVATIZED-MILITARY-HOUSING-ON-FT.-STEWART-FT.-BENNING.pdf 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)





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