America's troops face a housing crisis; Georgia Sen. Warnock is stepping up

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America's troops face a housing crisis; Georgia Sen. Warnock is stepping up
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'The last thing they need to be worried about is keeping a roof over the heads,' Senator Raphael Warnock told Newsweek. 'Sadly that's the case for too many.'

, an E-5 with dependents living in San Diego would receive $2,871 a month in compensation, whereas an E-6 with dependents in Albany would get $1,152.

changed the BAH so that the DOD could place"cost sharing" provisions on servicemembers, meaning it currently covers 95% of estimated shelter costs instead of 100%.of Georgia intends to change this, introducing four separate acts to this year's National Defense Authorization Act that he says will make housing more affordable for America's troops.

The BAH Restoration Act will increase the housing allowance for servicemembers by nixing the Congress' FY2015 order to bring the BAH back to a full 100%. The BAH Calculation Improvement Act instructs the DOD to analyze the"efficiency and accuracy" of the current allowance in order to determine whether it should be calculated more often and if it should include school districts as a factor in that calculation.

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