NIGP 97164: Residential Space Rental or Lease

NIGP 97164 Residential Space Rental Or Lease, an Item code, encompasses state and local government leasing of single-family houses, multi-unit apartments, vacant commercial structures, and managed residential properties for employee housing, emergency temporary shelter, student accommodations, and property redevelopment initiatives. Recent solicitations show governments leasing residential and mixed-use properties from private owners, acquiring long-term tenant commitments to activate underutilized or vacant publicly owned structures, procuring furnished student apartments, and securing affordable multi-family rental housing through development grants and deferred-loan financing. Issuing bodies include county boards of commissioners, city procurement offices, special-purpose district authorities (land banks, corridor improvement authorities), state agencies, and public universities. Clay County Board of County Commissioners in Florida, the City of Phoenix, the Martin Luther King Corridor Improvement Authority in Jackson, Michigan, the Griffin-Spalding County Land Bank Authority in Georgia, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and Texas Tech University appear as recent active buyers.

Geographic activity spans Florida (Clay County), Arizona (Phoenix, Tempe), Michigan (Jackson), Georgia (Griffin, Early County), and Texas (Kinney County, Lubbock). Representative recent opportunities include Clay County's RFB for a long-term lease of county-owned property at 3245 Bear Run Blvd., Orange Park, Florida, with proposals due November 23, 2026, seeking a tenant willing to make structural improvements to a vacant former Tax Collector site; the City of Phoenix's sealed-offer RFQ for emergency temporary housing due October 30, 2026, with prequalified restoration contractors identified; the Martin Luther King Corridor Improvement Authority's RFP for professional property management services covering approximately 13 properties totaling 65,000 square feet, with proposals due November 2, 2026 and services commencing by December 2026; and Texas Tech University's RFP 2026-1181 for off-campus student apartments (100 to 300 beds) with a mandatory HUB Subcontracting Plan, targeting initial occupancy August 2026 and extending through summer 2028. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department solicited bids to lease a 1,500–2,000 square-foot single-family residence within 45 driving miles of Brackettville, Kinney County, for a 24-month initial term extending through April 30, 2036.