Government Housing

FAMILY HOUSING
Accompanied personnel reporting to NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay must reside in government-owned family housing.   Check-in at the local Housing Service Center (HSC) arrival to the installation.  The HSC staff will assist with all of your home-finding needs.  

GOVERNMENT-OWNED HOUSING 
The local HSC processes applications and assigns personnel to government-owned family housing.  The HSC is your advocate, and you should contact them with any issues.  For more information about on-base housing for accompanied personnel, including eligibility requirements, visit the CNIC Headquarters Government-Owned Housing page.  

The Housing Early Assistance Tool (HEAT) enables Service Members and their families to apply for government-owned family housing prior to departure from their current command, before or after receiving permanent change of station orders.  Visit the CNIC HQ HEAT page to find out more.  Additionally, you can obtain application forms online, at your nearest HSC, or you can contact the HSC  have one mailed or emailed to you.

In order to apply, you are required to have the following:

• DD Form 1746 (Application for Assignment to Housing).
• Orders – 30 months for Navy and Air Force. 24 months for Marines, Coast Guard and Army.
• Certification of bona fide family members. Examples of acceptable forms of documentation are:
• For active-duty military:  Page 2, REDS, and DEERS enrollment.
• For DoD civilians:  Copy of marriage license and copy of dependent children’s birth certificates.

Within 3 business days of arrival, check-in to the NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay HSC to sign up for the Housing Welcome Brief.  

There are 14 family housing neighborhoods located aboard NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay.  If appropriate quarters are not available upon arrival, personnel will be placed on a waiting list.  When a unit becomes available, the Service Member and family will receive a government-funded move from their off-base residence to family housing on base.  Contact the HSC to get the most current projection of housing availability and wait list information.

Guantanamo Bay has limited housing available. Please visit the Guantanamo Bay Housing website for more information on housing floor plans and photographs.

The active inventory of homes onboard Naval Station Guantanamo Bay range in age from 1940s to 2019. As such, layouts, amenities and size will vary. All personnel relocating to Guantanamo Bay should exercise extreme discretion with the shipment of personnel items as there are no local storage facilities. Relocations to larger homes due to excess household goods are not authorized.

Housing floor plans and photographs are available through the Housing Office. You can also visit the Navy Housing website for housing floor plans.

Application and Eligibility

Upon receipt of orders, service members should contact the Guantanamo Bay Housing Office immediately. Eligibility will be based on detachment date/acceptance date, rank and family size. Advance applications for housing may be faxed to the Housing Office and the original mailed.

UNACCOMPANIED HOUSING 
Unaccompanied personnel reporting to NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay must reside in barracks or dorms.  

BARRACKS AND DORMS 
UH is conveniently located on NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay, housing approximately 1,600 in 3 buildings and approximately 1500 JTF Service Members in 2 diverted housing areas:

Building 1678 provides permanent party billeting for all E1 through E3 unaccompanied personnel

Building 1670 houses all E4 through E6

Building 2147 all E7 through O10. Building 2147 also provides accommodations for personnel temporarily assigned duty under instruction to the station or to tenant commands.

Accommodations are one or two persons to a room based on pay grade and square footage.   Building 1670 serves as the check-in point.   Linens are provided at check-in.   UH facilities include lounges equipped with televisions, washers and dryers, and vending machines in all buildings.   There are also recreational, fitness, dining, religious, educational and other amenities, most located within walking distance of UH.    Additional information on base amenities is available in the Welcome Aboard package.  

Upon assignment to UH, the Building Manager will schedule a time for your UH indoctrination and joint assignment inspection. All of our rooms are assigned in a clean, well-maintained state and are fully furnished. The purpose of the joint inspection is to document the status of the room and furnishings at the time of check-in. During your stay, it is your responsibility to promptly report all maintenance problems and required repairs. When you check out, you will conduct a joint termination inspection with the Building Manager to document the status at check out. Your Building Manager will explain the process during indoctrination.

We have a number of rules and regulations designed to keep the UH community a safe and comfortable place for all residents. You will be provided a copy of NAVSTA Guantanamo Bay’s Instruction [11103.5B], during indoctrination, which explains all of the rules and regulations for the operation of UH. We try to keep the rules as reasonable and unobtrusive as possible and expect everyone to abide by them.

Resident advisors (RA) and geographic bachelors (GB) may also reside on-base.  RAs are senior personnel who provide an after-hours leadership presence to UH residents.  RAs sign a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to certain duties and responsibilities in exchange for a room in UH.  The program is strictly voluntary and open to personnel in pay grades E5 to E9 (E4 with their commanding officer’s recommendation), including GBs.  For more information about the RA program and to obtain an application, please contact the UH Administrative Office. 

GBs are personnel ordered to the installation who, by choice or circumstance, have decided that their dependents will continue to live in another geographic area.  GBs are receiving basic allowance for housing at the with dependents rate.  They are not normally authorized to live in UH, however, since (NAVSTA) Guantanamo Bay is a closed base we must house all in accordance with UH regulations.  GBs must submit an application that will be reviewed by the Assignment Review Board.  If approved, the GB will be placed on the waiting list and offered UH on space available basis.