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The Department of National Defence/Canadian Forces has launched a review of its military housing policy and will clearly define its operational requirements for military housing.

Or so it told the Auditor General in response to a new report Tuesday that found major issues with the DND/CF housing policy.

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Overall, the Auditor General found that the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces did not comply with key aspects of its military housing policy. It found that National Defence did not clearly define its operational requirements for military housing. It also found that, at some locations, the DND/Canadian Forces did not consider how the private housing market could meet the needs of Canadian Forces members.

So….

In September 2015, at a pre-meeting of National Defence’s Accommodation Board, the advisory body of the military housing policy, the departmental stakeholders were directed to complete the review of the operational requirement for military housing, according to Auditor General Michael Ferguson. The review, to be completed by the fall of 2016, will draw from the findings of previously published reports to recommend changes and revisions to the existing policy, according to the DND. From there it will produce a revised accommodation policy by the fall of 2017.