{"id":80426,"date":"2026-02-20T18:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2026\/02\/20\/navy-eyes-bah-increases-barracks-updates-to-house-more-sailors-ashore\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:56:47","slug":"navy-eyes-bah-increases-barracks-updates-to-house-more-sailors-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2026\/02\/20\/navy-eyes-bah-increases-barracks-updates-to-house-more-sailors-ashore\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy eyes BAH increases, barracks updates to house more sailors ashore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Navy moves to expand its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2025\/09\/04\/incoming-chief-of-naval-operations-sets-new-bar-for-sailor-well-being\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2025\/09\/04\/incoming-chief-of-naval-operations-sets-new-bar-for-sailor-well-being\/\">\u201cNo Sailor Lives Afloat\u201d<\/a> initiative first announced last year, a top leader in personnel policy described the effort as part of a larger push to keep sailors by ensuring their quality-of-life expectations are being met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the service announced it had to date resituated 4,500 sailors who\u2019d been living afloat to shore-based housing, and was working to expand housing access to more troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While details in the announcement were sparse, officials said Naval Installations Command had identified \u201cseveral short-term and long-term projects across all major homeports\u201d so unaccompanied sailors would have more access to shore-based berthing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese efforts include improving conditions in current barracks, bringing additional rooms back online through additional investments, expanding [public-private venture] options, exploring innovative housing solutions, providing temporary lodging when needed and advocating for an increase to the Basic Allowance for Housing,\u201d officials said in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BAH, an allowance that\u2019s set across the military and factors in a service member\u2019s location, time in service and dependents, is congressionally supervised and typically updated once per year, in the National Defense Authorization Act. It\u2019s not yet clear what kind of additional augmentation the Navy might ask for to provide ship-based sailors with greater options to afford off-base housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, the Navy authorized sailors to collect BAH based on their dependents\u2019 living locations, offering flexibility to pay for shore-based housing to some sailors assigned to ships who might not otherwise qualify. In his \u201cC-Note\u201d to the fleet announcing the \u201cNo Sailor Lives Afloat\u201d program last September, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. 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The quality-of-life expectations are higher, and we owe our sailors that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo Sailors Lives Afloat\u201d is one of a number of retention-focused initiatives under consideration by the Navy, Couture said, in recognition that the \u201ctop-talented people\u201d the service wants to recruit have other attractive career options and the Navy must compete for their interest and commitment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to make sure that we are also signaling that, not only do we have a high purpose \u2014 which we have in spades \u2014 we have a mission \u2026 that continues to guarantee the prosperity of the United States, but also we\u2019re investing in you as a future leader of the organization,\u201d Couture said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caudle has also directed the Navy installations to improve cell service and install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/11\/01\/troops-in-remote-barracks-lack-free-wi-fi-thats-about-to-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2024\/11\/01\/troops-in-remote-barracks-lack-free-wi-fi-thats-about-to-change\/\">free Wi-Fi<\/a> in all barracks, an effort that parallels Navy moves to do the same onboard deployed ships. 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