Navy Plans to Privatize Northwest Housing ; War Expenses Force Cutbacks in Other Areas

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BREMERTON (AP) Struggling to maintain its military housing as more defense money goes toward the war effort, the Navy will hand management of its housing in the Northwest over to a new landlord.

Today the Navy is to finalize a deal to transfer maintenance of the majority of its 4,000 Northwest housing units nearly 1,400 in the west Puget Sound to American Eagle Communities LLC, a private company in Dallas with eight military housing contracts in San Diego, Texas and New Orleans. The transfer is scheduled for Dec. 1.

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Navy Plans to Privatize Northwest Housing ; War Expenses Force Cutbacks in Other Areas

"A community housing manager can provide for them what the Navy cannot," said Rear Adm. Len Hering, the Navy's No...

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