CNN CNN Presents April 22, 2012
its military housing was in a desperate state. 180,000 units around the world built cheap and now falling apart. >> facing a billion-dollar repair bill, congress had a big idea. turn the housing over to private companies and let the free market do its work. >> but as cnn's deborah feyerick reports, for many families living in those homes that big idea has been a disaster. >> and the men and women who served to protect us are fighting a losing battle at home. >> reporter: when these sailors and marines left the u.s. to serve their country, no one imagined many would come home to this....