---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2883a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2883a"
heading: "Funds for housing allowances of members of the armed forces assigned to certain military family housing units"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2883a"
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"
---

# §2883a. Funds for housing allowances of members of the armed forces assigned to certain military family housing units

- (a) **Authority to Transfer Funds To Cover Housing Allowances.—** During the fiscal year in which a [contract](/usc/10/2871.md?p=4) is awarded for the acquisition or [construction](/usc/10/2871.md?p=3) of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) family [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) under this subchapter that are not to be owned by the [United States](/usc/10/2871.md?p=13), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may transfer the amount determined under [subsection (b)](#b) with respect to such housing from appropriations available for support of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) housing for the armed force concerned for that fiscal year to appropriations available for [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) and allowances of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel of that same armed force for that same fiscal year.
- (b) **Amount Transferred.—** The total amount authorized to be transferred under [subsection (a)](#a) in connection with a [contract](/usc/10/2871.md?p=4) under this subchapter may not exceed an amount equal to any additional amounts payable during the fiscal year in which the [contract](/usc/10/2871.md?p=4) is awarded to members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) assigned to the acquired or constructed [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8) as basic allowance for housing under [section 403 of title 37](/usc/37/403.md) that would not otherwise have been payable to such members if not for assignment to such [housing units](/usc/10/2871.md?p=8).
- (c) **Transfers Subject to Appropriations.—** The transfer of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) under the authority of [subsection (a)](#a) is limited to such amounts as may be provided in advance in appropriations Acts.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–107, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1305.)