Stars & Stripes: Fort Gordon Families Say Base Housing Still Plagued with Mold, Sewage, and Other Problems
This article features whistleblower client, Erin Greer, and was originally published here.
Erin Greer, her husband and their children have lived with poor housing conditions on Fort Gordon for more than six years, she said Tuesday, describing moldy walls, flooded bathrooms — sometimes with sewage water — and a partially collapsed ceiling in their residence.
Last year, after several failed attempts to convince the Balfour Beatty officials in charge of the Fort Gordon housing of the problems plaguing their home, Greer moved her family out — deciding it was safer to sleep in their cars or outside on their porch than stay inside the house, she said during a Senate oversight session in Washington. While the issue of substandard military housing has made national headlines for years and sparked numerous Pentagon, congressional and independent inquiries, the problems, at least at Fort Gordon, have not improved, Greer told Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga.
“I want you to know that the problems with Balfour [Beatty] have not gone away,” Greer said, fighting back tears. “The situation has gotten worse.”
Ossoff called the oversight session Tuesday after visiting Fort Gordon last week, where Army officials began a post-wide inspection of every housing unit on the installation. The officials, Ossoff said, will spend the coming weeks looking at every privatized family housing unit, every...
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