---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2874"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2874"
heading: "Leasing of housing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2874"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
  - "Subchapter IV — Alternative Authority for Acquisition and Improvement of Military Housing"
---

# §2874. Leasing of housing

- (a) **Lease Authorized.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may enter into [contracts](/usc/10/2871.md?p=4) for the lease of [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) that the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) determines are suitable for use as [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) family housing or [military unaccompanied housing](/usc/10/2871.md?p=11).
- (b) **Use of Leased Units.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall utilize [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) leased under this section as [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) family housing or [military unaccompanied housing](/usc/10/2871.md?p=11), as appropriate.
- (c) **Lease Terms.—** A [contract](/usc/10/2871.md?p=4) under this section may be for any period that the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) determines appropriate and may provide for the owner of the leased property to operate and maintain the property.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2801(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 546; amended Pub. L. 107–314, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2802(b)(1), (2), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2703.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2002—Pub. L. 107–314, § 2802(b)(2), in section catchline struck out “to be constructed” after “Leasing of housing”.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–314, § 2802(b)(1)(B), added subsec. (a) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows: “The Secretary concerned may enter into contracts for the lease of military family housing units or military unaccompanied housing units to be constructed under this subchapter.”

Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 107–314, § 2802(b)(1), added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c).