Website explains housing privatization benefits Published Dec. 23, 2010 By 20th Fighter Wing Public Affairs SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- Air Force officials are releasing more information about housing privatization as Shaw prepares for the demolition of more than 600 units of old housing and construction of a similar number of new, on-base homes. When the initiative began in 1996, officials said, Air Force housing consisted of 104,000 homes, most built 30 to 50 years ago. Of those, 40,000 were considered inadequate. Since then, the program has delivered nearly 38,000 homes at 44 bases, and officials are working to select developers for the remaining bases, and close the transactions by the end of Fiscal Year 2011. For details on what privatized housing means to Airmen and their families, you can visit this website.