Navy rolling out new housing survey

Beginning next week, sailors living in privatized housing will get a survey from the Navy after rising concerns about substandard living conditions in private housing across the military’s branches.

Action News Jax told you recently when military families from around the country felt their concerns were being ignored.

Military spouses went before the Senate Armed Services Committee to voice their complaints about being overlooked by landlords and some military officials.

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"I have felt the helplessness of a fellow Marine Corps spouse as she held her baby,” said Crystal Cornwall, a military spouse who spoke before the committee. “and sobbed while we stood under a collapsing moldy ceiling in her home at Legeune."

According to a Naval Station Mayport press release, the survey is being conducted on behalf of the Navy at the direction of Chief John Richardson.

The goal is determining residents’ "...overall satisfaction with privatized housing, to include health and safety concerns.”

Brooke Holiday lives near Mayport, and tells Action News Jax she comes from a military family.

“They should have the best,” said Holiday. “I mean, they do so much for us!”

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