The Army is committed to improving Soldier and Family housing.
• Automated and enhanced housing services by offering the Automated Housing Referral Network, a home buying service, and Army Housing OneStop, an garrisons and community information source.
 • Continued the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) that provided the Army with the ability to leverage private sector capital and best business practices, ensuring quality facilities and communities will be sustained through the next 50 years. Through April 2009, RCI has privatized 43 of 45 planned garrisons, built more than 19,000 homes and renovated another 14,000. The planned goal calls for 87,747 homes or 98% of all Army Family Housing in the United States.
• Expanded the RCI model to include Unaccompanied SeniorEnlisted/Officer Quarters at five garrisons (Forts Irwin, Drum, Bragg, Stewart, and Bliss) to address the shortage of adequate/
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affordable off-post rentals. The plan is to construct 1,396 one and two bedroom apartments.
• Received the 2008 President’s Quality Award from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for the RCI program. RCI also won the Urban Land Institute’s Award for Excellence in 2008.
• Funded the Training Barracks Modernization Program at $930 million to allow 11,306 Soldiers to move into newly designed or renovated barracks in FY09. New construction or modernization of 19,746 barracks spaces is scheduled for completion by end of FY09.
• Introduced the First Sergeant’s Barracks Initiative (FSBI) to enhance: single Soldier quality of life; reduce overall unprogrammed single Soldier basic allowance for housing; maximize barracks utilization while reducing the number of certificates of non-availability; and reallocate Soldier time from non-war fighting tasks.
• The Army approved $500 million (FY08 GWOT supplemental) and $100 million (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) for Warrior Transition Barracks.
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