Data.gov Program Management Office
created Feb 18, 2011
updated May 11, 2011
Rent estimates at the 50th percentile (or median) are calculated for all Fair Market Rent areas. Fair Market Rents (FMRs) are primarily used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment (HAP) contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program (Mod Rehab), and to serve as a rent ceiling in the HOME rental assistance program. FMRs are gross rent estimates. They include the shelter rent plus the cost of all tenant-paid utilities, except telephones, cable or satellite television service, and internet service. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually estimates FMRs for 530 metropolitan areas and 2,045 nonmetropolitan county FMR areas. Under certain conditions, as set forth in the Interim Rule (Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 191, Monday October 2, 2000, pages 58870-58875), these 50th percentile rents can be used to set success rate payment standards.
- Community Rating
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0.0
- Your Rating
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- Raters
- 0
- Visits
- 4593
- Downloads
- 3704
- Comments
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- Contributors
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- Category
- Construction and Housing
- Permissions
- Public
- Tags
- FMR, HUD, housing assistance, Section 8 contracts, Rents
- Data Provided By
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Source Link
- (none)
- Agency
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Date Released
- 10/2001
- Date Updated
- Friday, April 10, 2009
- Time Period
- Annual
- Frequency
- Annual
- High Value Dataset
- N
- Suggested by Public
- N
- Data.gov Data Category Type
- Tool Catalog
- Specialized Data Category Designation
- Administrative
- Unique ID
- 607
- Extended Type
- Data Extraction Tool
- Citation
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/50per.html
- Agency Program Page
- http://www.huduser.org/about/pdrabout.html
- Agency Data Series Page
- http://www.huduser.org/
- Unit of Analysis
- Rental housing units
- Granularity
- County
- Geographic Coverage
- National
- Collection Mode
- Cenus data, surveys (American Community Surveys - ACS), phone surveys
- Data Collection Instrument
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr/fmrover_071707R2.doc
- Data Dictionary
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr/fmrs/fy2009_code/select_Geography.odb
- Technical Documentation
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/50thper/FY2009_50th_ReadMe.doc
- Data Quality Certification
- Yes
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Yes
- Applicable Information Quality Guideline Designation
- Office of the Assistant, Secretary for Administration/Chief, Information Officer, HUD
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Data.gov Program Management Office
created Feb 18, 2011
updated May 11, 2011
Rent estimates at the 50th percentile (or median) are calculated for all Fair Market Rent areas. Fair Market Rents (FMRs) are primarily used to determine payment standard amounts for the Housing Choice Voucher program, to determine initial renewal rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts, to determine initial rents for housing assistance payment (HAP) contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program (Mod Rehab), and to serve as a rent ceiling in the HOME rental assistance program. FMRs are gross rent estimates. They include the shelter rent plus the cost of all tenant-paid utilities, except telephones, cable or satellite television service, and internet service. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) annually estimates FMRs for 530 metropolitan areas and 2,045 nonmetropolitan county FMR areas. Under certain conditions, as set forth in the Interim Rule (Federal Register Vol. 65, No. 191, Monday October 2, 2000, pages 58870-58875), these 50th percentile rents can be used to set success rate payment standards.
- Community Rating
-
0.0
- Your Rating
-
- Raters
- 0
- Visits
- 4593
- Downloads
- 3704
- Comments
- 0
- Contributors
- 0
- Category
- Construction and Housing
- Permissions
- Public
- Tags
- FMR, HUD, housing assistance, Section 8 contracts, Rents
- Data Provided By
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Source Link
- (none)
- Agency
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Date Released
- 10/2001
- Date Updated
- Friday, April 10, 2009
- Time Period
- Annual
- Frequency
- Annual
- High Value Dataset
- N
- Suggested by Public
- N
- Data.gov Data Category Type
- Tool Catalog
- Specialized Data Category Designation
- Administrative
- Unique ID
- 607
- Extended Type
- Data Extraction Tool
- Citation
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/50per.html
- Agency Program Page
- http://www.huduser.org/about/pdrabout.html
- Agency Data Series Page
- http://www.huduser.org/
- Unit of Analysis
- Rental housing units
- Granularity
- County
- Geographic Coverage
- National
- Collection Mode
- Cenus data, surveys (American Community Surveys - ACS), phone surveys
- Data Collection Instrument
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr/fmrover_071707R2.doc
- Data Dictionary
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr/fmrs/fy2009_code/select_Geography.odb
- Technical Documentation
- http://www.huduser.org/datasets/50thper/FY2009_50th_ReadMe.doc
- Data Quality Certification
- Yes
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Yes
- Applicable Information Quality Guideline Designation
- Office of the Assistant, Secretary for Administration/Chief, Information Officer, HUD
