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The scope here is Department-wide. DD Form 1747 — DD Form 1747, Status of Housing Availability, September 1993 — exists to Status of Housing Availability, and it applies across the services rather than inside one. That is what the DD prefix encodes: joint issue, single edition, every branch and defense agency working from identical paper.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
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What the form asks for
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- 1. From: Family Housing Office. a. Installation name.
- b. DSN telephone number.
- Commercial phone number.
- 2. To: Applicant's name (last, first, middle initial).
- 3. Your application for military family housing will be effective: Day, month, year, hour.
- 4. You are advised that: a. You can expect military family housing to be available: Press space bar to mark X in first box if immediately upon your arrival, second box if within approximately 30 days of your arrival, third box if within 12 months of your arrival, or fourth box if after 12 months or more, or not at all.
- b. Considering the availability of family housing you should make alternative housing arrangements that will be: X first box if temporary, second box if semi-permanent, or third box if permanent.
- c. Comments.
- 5. Housing availability in the community is: X first box if good, second box if fair, or third box if limited.
- 7. Signature (family housing office representative).
- 8. Date (day, month, year).
Edition check comes first, ahead of any entry. Compare the printed date to not stated and replace anything older. Department-level supersession is simultaneous across the services, so a superseded blank is not merely out of date locally; the office receiving it is already working from the new field structure whichever branch it belongs to.
Unclear entries — read the form face, then not stated; the directive prevails.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
A number is a complete address in the DD series. Because the sequence is Department-level and not duplicated per service, there is nothing further to specify.
Prefix before number. A DA citation and a DD citation in the same instruction point at separate systems — one Army, administered by an Army proponent, one Department-wide under not stated — and there is no correspondence between them at any number.
Three drivers of revision: directive reissue, altered collection requirements, updated statutory notice text. No notification accompanies any of them, so download fresh and confirm not stated rather than reusing an archived file.
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Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1747?
- DD Form 1747, Status of Housing Availability, September 1993
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?