Optimizing the privatization of military family housing
By:  David M. Shade
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Description: This thesis optimizes the privatization of military housing in the Monterey Bay area. We developed two spreadsheet models of the Monterey Bay Military Housing (MBMH) project to revitalize over 2200 military family  housing units. We used these  models to evaluate several proposed privatization strategies, identify the optimal privatization  strategy, develop performance  estimates for each strategy, and  estimate the performance  tradeoffs. We conclude that the  DoD can quickly resolve the  housing issues in the Monterey Bay by privatizing the military family housing function. The optimal privatization strategy of acquiring additional land, building new housing, and selling the existing housing land will replace the entire housing inventory in three years.  Alternatively, the optimal strategy without selling any land will replace over one third of the existing housing units and renovate the remainder in nine years. These models can easily be adapted to support housing privatizations at other DoD installations. During site selection they can verify a project's  feasibility and develop financial  estimates. They can develop detailed privatization strategies and estimate tradeoffs for each project. They can also be used to evaluate and provide performance metrics of contractor proposals. Most importantly they facilitate "what if' analysis throughout the privatization process.
Notes: "December 1998."

Thesis advisor(s): John F. Raffensperger, Keebom Kang, Gerald M. Pearman.

Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92).

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