§2894a — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

§2894a Complaint database

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 169— - MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - OVERSIGHT OF LANDLORDS AND PROTECTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR TENANTS OF PRIVATIZED MILITARY HOUSING › § 2894a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must create a public database of tenant complaints about covered military housing. Tenants can file complaints to be put in the database. Each complaint entry must show the installation name, the landlord’s name, and a short description of the problem. The database must not reveal personal identifying information. The Department must require landlords, in their contracts, to respond quickly to complaints listed, and those landlord responses must also be posted in the database. Definitions: "covered armed force" = Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force. "covered dwelling unit" = family housing, unaccompanied housing, or barracks built or acquired under subchapter IV of chapter 169 of this title, where a covered service member lives and does not own the unit. "tenant" = a covered service member or their dependent who lives in a covered dwelling unit.

Title 10, §2894a

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(a)The Secretary of Defense shall establish a database of complaints made by a tenant regarding covered dwelling units.

(b)The database shall be available to the public.

(c)The Secretary of Defense shall permit a tenant of a covered dwelling unit to file a complaint regarding the covered dwelling unit for inclusion in the database.

(d)(1)Information accessible in the database regarding a complaint shall include the following:

(A)The name of the installation for which the covered dwelling unit is provided.

(B)The name of the landlord responsible for the covered dwelling unit.

(C)A description of the nature of the complaint.

(2)The Secretary of Defense may not disclose personally identifiable information through the database.

(e)(1)The Secretary of Defense shall include in any contract with a landlord responsible for a housing unit a requirement that the landlord respond in a timely manner to any complaints included in the database that relate to the housing unit.

(2)The Secretary shall include landlord responses in the database.

(f)In this section:

(1)The term “covered armed force” means the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Space Force.

(2)The term “covered dwelling unit” means a unit of accompanied family housing, unaccompanied housing, or barracks—

(A)that is acquired or constructed pursuant to subchapter IV of chapter 169 of this title;

(B)in which a member of a covered armed force resides; and

(C)that such member does not own.

(3)The term “tenant” means any of the following:

(A)A member of a covered armed force who resides in a covered dwelling unit.

(B)A dependent of a member described in subparagraph (A) who resides in a covered dwelling unit.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2024—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 118–159, § 2825(a)(1), substituted “by a tenant regarding covered dwelling units” for “regarding housing units”. Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 118–159, § 2825(a)(2), substituted “covered dwelling unit” for “housing unit” in two places. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 118–159, § 2825(a)(3), added subsec. (f).