Family Quarters
In 2002, the Family Housing Office joined a new Army program called the Residential Communities Initiative, or RCI. This program is designed to improve the quality of life for Walter Reed’s Soldiers. It allows the government to partner with civilian developers to improve the maintenance and operational systems for its housing.

In July 2004 the installation’s RCI developer and partner, GMH Military Housing LLC, assumed management of Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s family housing. Demolition and replacement of housing units at Walter Reed’s Glen Haven community is under way and is scheduled to be completed by mid-2007.

The new Glen Haven community will consist of 240 three- and four-bedroom apartments and town homes. During the construction period, availability of homes will be limited. Please call GMH Military Housing’s management office at (301) 649-9700 with any questions. The management office is in the Glen Haven community at 1906 LaPointe Drive in Wheaton, Md.

Unaccompanied Military Housing
There are no bachelor officer quarters on post. Bachelor enlisted quarters are in a six-story structure, Abrams Hall (Bldg. 14), which is currently under renovation. The finished facility will offer 275 private apartments. Each will be fully furnished and will contain living, dining and sleeping areas plus a kitchen and individual Internet and cable TV hookups. Orderly rooms and other company activities will be separate from soldierliving areas.

Until the renovation of Abrams Hall is complete, company first sergeants will allocate living quarters.

The first three floors of Abrams Hall continue to provide parking space for about 500 vehicles, with street-level entrance ramps to each floor..

Soldiers assigned to Student Company are housed two to a room with a shared bath in Bldg. 18, across Georgia Avenue from the medical center. There is space for 104 Soldiers.

Walter Reed also has several housing referral programs to help assigned service members. One is the “Housing Set-Aside“ program, which locates adequate and affordable housing within a fifteen-mile radius of the main installation. Service members must do the following to participate:

• Have the company first sergeant provide a “statement of non-availability.
• Sign a Statement of Acknowledgement to live in the selected property.
• Sign a lease approved by the Office of the Center Judge Advocate.
• Initiate payroll allotment authorizing Basic Allowance for Housing to be paid to property owner.
• Release personal information when making a permanent move to another duty station.

If the above criteria are met, the property owner will agree to waive security deposits, application fees and credit checks. More information and a listing of participating apartments are available from the RCI Housing Liaison Office.

Service members who prefer to look for housing that is not in the set-aside program can get more information on the Web at [begin italics] www.onestoparmy.com [end italics] or contact the RCI Housing Liaison Office in Bldg. 11 (Delano Hall). Phone (202) 782-3153.

Guest House
Please see the Mologne House listing under “Facilities.“