Around 70% of service members live off base because there’s not enough housing.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Joint Base Lewis McChord leaders (JBLM) and some community leaders gathered Tuesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of over 200 new homes for military families.
Around 58,000 service members are stationed at JBLM. That’s around 80,000 people including their families. JBLM leaders said around 70% of them live off base because there’s not enough housing.
“So, there’s 5,159 houses currently that Liberty Housing owns and manages here on Joint Base Lewis-McChord,” said Philip Rizzo, Liberty Military Housing CEO.
Rizzo said the addition of the 212
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