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Location: L. G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass. Cost: $100 per month including utilities.

Occupied by: Lieutenant

,wife, one child.

Problem: 645 families in substandard housing.

The lieutenant, age 26, is a graduate aeronautical engineer, doing airborne
research work.

He and his family have been assigned to Hanscom Field since August 1960.
He and over 600 other families are living in substandard quarters, since this
community has become saturated with major electronic industries. The satis-
factory housing in the community is occupied by highly paid professional in-
dustry employees.

This family occupies an apartment in which the central heating plant for the
entire building is in their living room, as shown in the picture. The apartment
is damp, has only one standard-size closet, and the kitchen sink is in a closet
with no cabinets, except some which the lieutenant built himself.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS, 1964

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FT. ORD, CALIF.

.. (Family) NEAR a

FT. EUSTIS, VA.

Location: Fort Ord, Calif. ; four children (6 to 15 years). Family: Sergeant Problem: After 25 months unaccompanied tour in Germany, this family had 3 months together in unsuitable housing, but have now been separated again for last 10 months.

This 14-year veteran is a truckmaster in a tank company.

In 10 years of marriage and eligibility, this family has had 1 month in Gov-
When assigned to Wurms, Germany, in 1960, they discovered that there was
ernment quarters.
a 37-52 week waiting period for public quarters, so the family stayed behind.
When reassigned to Fort Ord last year, the family reunited in house costing
$35 more than their BAQ. They gave this up when a lease was demanded, since
it would prevent moving into public quarters when their number came up on
the waiting list.

Scarcity of housing, high prices, prevalence of leases, and other restrictions
forced family to return to Virginia.

This soldier separated for almost 3 years during critical years of his children's growing up.

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