Our Initiatives
Advocate
Communicate
Communicate
SMHI advocates act as liaisons on behalf of military families to engage with and resolve housing concerns with private landlords and installation housing offices.
Communicate
Communicate
Communicate
SMHI works to maintain open lines of communication between military families and other stakeholders. Our goal is to work together to ensure military families live in safe and healthy homes.
EHD Project
Communicate
EHD Project
SMHI proudly announces our latest initiative with Environmental Health Diagnostics to provide participating families with comprehensive, scientific data to help families prove claims of residentially-caused health problems.
Helping military families living in military housing
At SMHI We Believe
- Military service members and their families are critical stakeholders of the privatized military housing program. The lifeblood of this program is the service member's Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). Military service members and their families need to be allowed equal representation and input about family housing program affairs before a final determination.
- Military families deserve safe and healthy homes at their assigned installations to sustain military and family readiness, recruitment, and retention.
- Military family residents should be allowed access to analytical laboratory results and reports regarding environmental samples collected from their assigned homes and communities (i.e., pre and post-remediation samples of mold, lead, and other potential contaminants of concern). To that end, PPVs must be willing to provide the name and contact information of the certified laboratories used and authorize these laboratories to release their analytical results and report directly to residents upon request.
- SMHI recognizes and values the diversity of the military community. Our organization believes that all military families need access to safe and healthy homes, and we will work toward that end. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.
