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USC-36 / Property, construction and housing

Lease existing housing or competitively procure housing to be built and leased

Acquire suitable military family or unaccompanied housing by lease under §2874; use the separate shortage-based family-housing lease and congressionally authorized build-to-lease mechanisms under §§2828 and 2835.

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Authority / instrument · USC-36

Housing leasing and build-to-lease

Property, construction and housing

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary concerned or Secretary of the military department as specified

What this does not authorize / hard limit

§2835 build-to-lease contracts may not exceed 20 years excluding construction time.

Recorded executor

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedEligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-36 · Contracts & purchases
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §2874

Authority holder: Secretary concerned or Secretary of the military department as specified

Contracts & purchasesProperty & leases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Select the applicable statutory mechanism; §2828 requires a housing shortage and an enumerated justification, with unit/rental ceilings and adjustments.
  • For §2835, obtain project authorization, compete the lease, supply cost-effectiveness analysis and notice, and use project/year-specific appropriations clauses.

Limits & exclusions

  • §2835 build-to-lease contracts may not exceed 20 years excluding construction time.
  • §2874 has its own appropriate-term authority; the §2835 ceiling is not generalized to every housing lease.
  • Leasing is distinct from the government lending, equity, and property-outlease instruments.

Funding conditions

  • Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed

Resources

  • Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary concerned or Secretary of the military department as specified; any delegation must be verified

Execution

  • Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Partners & review

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §2874Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • 10 U.S.C. §2828Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.
  • 10 U.S.C. §2835Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedEligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.

Currentness: Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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