what we are hearing back is many families experiencing issues , pestold in their homes infestations, or structural deficiencies. trying to find help, trying to find a way to get this repaired and solved. host: the numbers are somewhat striking, and we will put them on the screen. just under 17,000 people living in military housing around the country. 56% of respondents had a negative or very negative experience with privatized military housing. 35 separate companies are referenced by these respondents, and as we have heard, black mold, lead paint, faulty wiring, poor water quality, insects and , a wide pesticides variety of vermin, skunks, squirrels, and also illnesses with lifelong implications caused by poor housing conditions, reports and requests for remediation were ignored or denied. about the other points, how did it get to be this way? guest: we don't know all the details. that is something that all of us who are looking at this, whether it is the senate armed services committee, the housing companies, the department of defense, us, trying to understand the pathway that got u