House lawmakers grilled officials on the state of military housing Wednesday after a damning watchdog report found that single service members are living with mold, contaminated water, no air conditioning and other major safety hazards on military housing facilities.

Some barracks that house unaccompanied service members are not livable, and even facilities that score well on military housing condition scales demonstrate serious facilities problems, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found in a report released earlier in September. Following up on that report, lawmakers asked officials in charge of DOD facilities to explain how barracks had fallen into major disrepair and how to maintain standards in the future at a subcommittee hearing.

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