Political Quotes

“This amendment will prevent the Army from moving forward with its plan to sell 17 acres of Federal land and 126 military housing units known as Shenandoah Square in the heart of my congressional district. Shenandoah Square is located next to Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, California, and houses 108 military and civilian families serving in the Air National Guard, the Army National Guard, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Marine Corps. Established in 2004, Shenandoah Square is part of the California Military Communities privatized military housing entity, which consists of 2,900 homes located at Fort Irwin, Camp Parks, Moffett Federal Airfield, and Shenandoah Square. This entity is overleveraged and is in hundreds of millions of dollars in debt because of the Army's decision to overinvest in housing at Fort Irwin that assumed greater than realized gains in the Basic Housing Allowance provided to servicemembers. Now the Army is justifying its sale of Shenandoah Square on the grounds that there is declining demand for military housing in the bay area, but this is hardly the case. In fact, it is absurd. I have met with the families and servicemembers living at Shenandoah Square who serve in the region with the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and the Coast Guard.…”