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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR 6277–N–01] 

Fair Market Rents for the Housing 

Choice Voucher Program, Moderate 

Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy 

Program, and Other Programs Fiscal 

Year 2022 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Policy Development and 

Research, Housing and Urban 

Development (HUD). 

ACTION: Notice of Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 

Fair Market Rents (FMRs). 

SUMMARY: Section 8(c)(1) of the United 

States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA), as 

amended by the Housing Opportunities 

Through Modernization Act of 2016 

(HOTMA), requires the Secretary to 

publish FMRs not less than annually, 

adjusted to be effective on October 1 of 

each year. This notice describes the 


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1HUD also calculates and posts 50th percentile 

rent estimates for the purposes of Success Rate 

Payment Standards as defined at 24 CFR 982.503(e) 

(estimates available at: https://www.huduser.gov/ 

portal/datasets/50per.html). 

2See OMB Bulletin 18–04. 

methods used to calculate the FY 2022 

FMRs and enumerates the procedures 

for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and 

other interested parties to request 

reevaluations of their FMRs as required 

by HOTMA. 

DATES: 

Comment Due Date: September 30, 

2021. 

Effective Date: October 1, 2021 unless 

HUD receives a valid request for 

reevaluation of specific area FMRs as 

described below. 

ADDRESSES: HUD invites interested 

persons to submit comments regarding 

the FMRs and to request reevaluation of 

the FY 2022 FMRs through the 

Regulations Division, Office of General 

Counsel, Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street 

SW, Room 10276, Washington, DC 

20410–0001. Communications must 

refer to the above docket number and 

title and should contain the information 

specified in the ‘‘Request for Comments/ 

Request for Reevaluation’’ section. 

There are two methods for submitting 

public comments: 

1. Electronic Submission of 

Comments. Interested persons may 

submit comments or reevaluation 

requests electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly 

encourages commenters to submit 

comments or reevaluation requests 

electronically. Electronic submission of 

comments or reevaluation requests 

allows the author maximum time to 

prepare and submit a comment or 

reevaluation request, ensures timely 

receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to 

make them immediately available to the 

public. Comments or reevaluation 

requests submitted electronically 

through the https://www.regulations.gov 

website can be viewed by other 

submitters and interested members of 

the public. Commenters or reevaluation 

requestors should follow instructions 

provided on that site to submit 

comments or reevaluation requests 

electronically. 

2. Submission of Comments by Mail. 

Members of the public may submit 

comments or requests for reevaluation 

by mail to the Regulations Division, 

Office of General Counsel, Department 

of Housing and Urban Development, 

451 7th Street SW, Room 10276, 

Washington, DC 20410–0500. Due to 

security measures at all federal agencies, 

however, submission of comments by 

standard mail often results in delayed 

delivery. To ensure timely receipt of 

comments or reevaluation requests, 

HUD recommends that comments or 

requests submitted by standard mail be 

submitted at least two weeks in advance 

of the deadline. HUD will make all 

comments or reevaluation requests 

received by mail available to the public 

at https://www.regulations.gov. 

Note: To receive consideration as public 

comments or reevaluation requests, 

comments or requests must be submitted 

through one of the two methods specified 

above. Again, all submissions must refer to 

the docket number and title of the notice. 

No Facsimile Comments or 

Reevaluation Requests. HUD does not 

accept facsimile (FAX) comments or 

requests for FMR reevaluation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information on the 

methodology used to develop FMRs or 

a listing of all FMRs, please call the 

HUD USER information line at 800– 

245–2691 or access the information on 

the HUD USER website https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html. 

Questions related to use of FMRs or 

voucher payment standards should be 

directed to the respective local HUD 

program staff or the Office of Public and 

Indian Housing Customer Service 

Center at https://www.hud.gov/ 

program_offices/public_indian_

housing/about/css. Questions on how to 

conduct FMR surveys may be addressed 

to the mailbox for the Program 

Parameters and Research Division at 

pprd@hud.gov. 

For any additional questions, you can 

contact Adam Bibler, Program 

Parameters and Research Division, 

Office of Policy Development and 

Research, telephone number 202–402– 

6057. Persons with a hearing- or speechimpairment may contact the Federal 

Relay Service at 800–877–8339 (TTY). 

(Other than the ‘‘800’’ TTY number, the 

above-listed telephone numbers are not 

toll free.) 

Electronic Data Availability. This 

Federal Register notice will be available 

electronically from the HUD User page 

at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html. Federal Register 

notices also are available electronically 

from https://www.federalregister.gov/ 

the U.S. Government Printing Office 

website. Complete documentation of the 

methods and data used to compute each 

area’s FY 2022 FMRs is available at 

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html#2022_query. FY 2022 

FMRs are available in a variety of 

electronic formats at https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html, including in PDF and 

Microsoft Excel. Small Area FMRs for 

all metropolitan FMR areas are available 

in Microsoft Excel format at: https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/ 

smallarea/index.html. For informational 

purposes, HUD also publishes 50th 

percentile rents for all FMR areas at 

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/50per.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 8 of the USHA (42 U.S.C. 

1437f) authorizes housing assistance to 

aid lower-income families in renting 

safe and decent housing. Housing 

assistance payments are limited by 

FMRs established by HUD for different 

geographic areas. In the Housing Choice 

Voucher (HCV) program, the FMR is the 

basis for determining the ‘‘payment 

standard amount’’ used to calculate the 

maximum monthly subsidy for an 

assisted family. See 24 CFR 982.503. 

HUD also uses the FMRs to determine 

initial renewal rents for some expiring 

project-based Section 8 contracts, initial 

rents for housing assistance payment 

contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation 

Single Room Occupancy program, rent 

ceilings for rental units in both the 

HOME Investment Partnerships program 

and the Emergency Solution Grants 

program, calculation of maximum 

award amounts for Continuum of Care 

recipients and the maximum amount of 

rent a recipient may pay for property 

leased with Continuum of Care funds, 

and calculation of flat rents in Public 

Housing units. In general, the FMR for 

an area is the amount that a tenant 

would need to pay the gross rent 

(shelter rent plus utilities) of privately 

owned, decent, and safe rental housing 

of a modest (non-luxury) nature with 

suitable amenities. HUD’s FMR 

calculations represent HUD’s best effort 

to estimate the 40th percentile gross 

rent 1 paid by recent movers into 

standard quality units in each FMR area. 

In addition, all rents subsidized under 

the HCV program must meet reasonable 

rent standards. 

The FY 2022 FMRs incorporate 

revisions to metropolitan area 

definitions released by the Office of 

Management and Budget in September 

2018 (see section III).2 PHAs and other 

users of FMRs should ensure that they 

look up the FY 2022 FMRs using the 

county, county equivalent, or town in 

the case of New England states, as the 

relationship between these areas and 

their respective metropolitan areas has 

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3HUD’s margin of error test requires that the 

margin of error of the ACS estimate is less than half 

the size of the estimate itself. 

4For FY 2022, the three years of ACS data in 

question are 2017, 2018 and 2019. HUD adjusts the 

2017 and 2018 data to be denominated in 2019 

dollars using the growth in Consumer Price Index 

(CPI)-based gross rents measured between 2017, 

2018, and 2019. 

5To be used in the three-year average calculation, 

the 5-year estimates must be minimally statistically 

qualified; that is, the margin of error of the 

estimates must be less than half the size of the 

estimate. 

II. Procedures for the Development of 

FMRs 

Section 8(c)(1) of the USHA, as 

amended by HOTMA (Pub. L. 114–201, 

enacted July 29, 2016), requires the 

Secretary of HUD to publish FMRs not 

less than annually. Section 8(c)(1)(A) 

states that each FMR ‘‘shall be adjusted 

to be effective on October 1 of each year 

to reflect changes, based on the most 

recent available data trended so the 

rentals will be current for the year to 

which they apply . . .’’ Section 

8(c)(1)(B) requires that HUD publish, 

not less than annually, new FMRs on 

the World Wide Web or in any other 

manner specified by the Secretary, and 

that HUD must also notify the public of 

when it publishes FMRs by Federal 

Register notice. After notification, the 

FMRs ‘‘shall become effective no earlier 

than 30 days after the date of such 

publication,’’ and HUD must provide a 

procedure for the public to comment 

and request a reevaluation of the FMRs 

in a jurisdiction before the FMRs 

become effective. Consistent with the 

statute, HUD is issuing this notice to 

notify the public that FY 2022 FMRs are 

available at https://www.huduser.gov/ 

portal/datasets/fmr.html and will 

become effective on October 1, 2021. 

This notice also provides procedures for 

FMR reevaluation requests. 

III. FMR Methodology 

This section provides a brief overview 

of how HUD computes the FY 2022 

FMRs. HUD is making no changes to the 

estimation methodology for FMRs as 

used by HUD for the FY 2021 FMRs. For 

complete information on how HUD 

derives each area’s FMRs, see the online 

documentation at https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html#2022_query. 

The FY 2022 FMRs are based on the 

updated metropolitan area definitions 

published by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) on September 14, 

2018 and incorporated by the Census 

Bureau into the 2019 American 

Community Survey (ACS) data. 

Following the methodology first 

established in FY 2016 to incorporate 

such revisions, HUD treats counties that 

OMB removed from metropolitan areas 

as nonmetropolitan counties. HUD 

treats counties that OMB added to 

metropolitan areas as metropolitan 

county subareas. They receive rents 

based on their own data if the local data 

is statistically reliable (with an error 

that is less than one-half of the estimate) 

or receive the metropolitan rent if their 

subarea estimate does not exist or is 

statistically unreliable. HUD treats new 

multi-county metropolitan areas as 

individual county metropolitan 

subareas using county-based gross rent 

estimates (if statistically reliable); 

otherwise, HUD uses a metropolitan, 

area-wide gross rent estimate. The goal 

of this policy is to minimize year-to-year 

changes in FMR values that are solely 

due to area definition revisions. 

In FY 2022, HUD is making the 

following additional area definition 

changes: 

HUD is adding Oliver County, ND to 

the Bismarck, ND Metropolitan 

Statistical Area. Since FY 2016, Oliver 

County has comprised the Oliver 

County, ND HUD Metro FMR Area 

(HMFA), a separate area from the 

Bismarck, ND HUD Metro FMR Area. 

However, in each year from FY 2017 

through FY 2021, Oliver County did not 

have reliable gross rent data from the 5- 

year ACS, and HUD used the data for 

the Bismarck, ND MSA in its FMR 

calculation. 

HUD is adding Maunabo Municipio, 

PR to the San Juan-Guaynabo, PR HUD 

Metro FMR Area. Since FY 2006, 

Maunabo has been part of the 

Barranquitas-Aibonito, PR HUD Metro 

FMR Area. However, Maunabo is not 

contiguous with the other municipios 

that comprise the BarranquitasAibonito, PR HUD Metro FMR Area. 

HUD FMR areas generally consist of 

contiguous counties or county 

equivalents. 

HUD is adding Utuado Municipio to 

the Aguadilla-Isabela, PR HUD Metro 

FMR Area. Prior to FY 2016, no FMR 

area in Puerto Rico consisted of a single 

municipio. Unlike Counties in the 

United States, HUD groups nonmetropolitan Puerto Rico Municipios to 

form the ‘‘Puerto Rico HUD Nonmetro 

Area’’ because Municipios are often 

smaller than counties in the United 

States. Similarly, HUD is adding 

Quebradillas Municipio to the Arecibo, 

PR HUD Metro FMR Area, which is 

retitled as Arecibo, PR MSA. Following 

these two changes, there are no single 

municipio FMR areas remaining in 

Puerto Rico. 

A. Base Year Rents 

For FY 2022 FMRs, HUD uses the U.S. 

Census Bureau’s 5-year ACS data 

collected between 2015 and 2019 as the 

‘‘base rents’’ for the FMR calculations. 

These data are the most current ACS 

data available at the time that HUD 

calculates the FY 2022 FMRs. HUD 

pairs a ‘‘margin of error’’ test 3 with an 

additional requirement based on the 

number of survey observations 

supporting the estimate to improve the 

statistical reliability of the ACS data 

used in the FMR calculations. The 

Census Bureau does not provide HUD 

with an exact count of the number of 

observations supporting the ACS 

estimate; rather, the Census Bureau 

provides HUD with categories of the 

number of survey responses underlying 

the estimate, including whether the 

estimate is based on more than 100 

observations. Using these categories, 

HUD requires that, in addition to the 

‘‘margin of error’’ test, ACS rent 

estimates must be based on at least 100 

observations to be used as base rents. 

For areas in which the 5-year ACS 

data for two-bedroom, standard quality 

gross rents do not pass the statistical 

reliability tests (i.e., have a margin of 

error ratio greater than 50 percent or 

fewer than 100 observations), HUD will 

use an average of the base rents over the 

three most recent years 4 (provided that 

there is data available for at least two of 

these years),5 or if such data are not 

available, using the two-bedroom rent 

data within the next largest geographic 

area. For a metropolitan subarea, the 

next largest area is its containing 

metropolitan area. For a nonmetropolitan area, the next largest area 

is the state non-metropolitan portion. 

B. Recent-Mover Factors 

Following the assignment of the 

standard quality two-bedroom rent 

described above, HUD applies a recentmover factor to these rents. HUD 

calculates the recent-mover factor as the 

change between the 5-year 2015–2019 

standard quality two-bedroom gross rent 

and the 1-year 2019 recent mover gross 

rent for the recent mover factor area. 

HUD does not allow recent-mover 

factors to lower the standard quality 

base rent; therefore, if the 5-year 

standard quality rent is larger than the 

comparable 1-year recent mover rent, 

HUD sets the recent-mover factor to 1. 

When the recent-mover factor is greater 

than one, HUD is, in effect, replacing 

the base rent with the recent-mover rent 

for that area. 

The calculation of the recent-mover 

factor for FY 2022 continues to use 

statistical reliability requirements that 

are similar to those for base rents. That 

is, for a recent-mover gross rent estimate 


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6 ‘‘All-bedroom’’ refers to estimates aggregated 

together regardless of the number of bedrooms in 

the dwelling unit. 

7The ACS is not conducted in the Pacific Islands 

(Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and American 

Samoa) or the U.S. Virgin Islands. As part of the 

2010 Decennial Census, the Census Bureau 

conducted ‘‘long-form’’ sample surveys for these 

areas. HUD uses the results gathered by this long 

form survey for the FY 2022 FMRs. 

to be considered statistically reliable, 

the estimate must have a margin of error 

ratio that is less than 50 percent, and the 

estimate must be based on 100 or more 

observations. 

When an FMR area does not have 

statistically reliable two-bedroom 

recent-mover data, the ‘‘all-bedroom’’ 

1-year recent-mover ACS data for the 

FMR area is tested for statistical 

reliability.6 HUD will use an ‘‘allbedroom’’ recent-mover factor from the 

FMR area, if statistically reliable, before 

substituting a two-bedroom recentmover factor from the next larger 

geography. Incorporating ‘‘all-bedroom’’ 

rents into the recent-mover factor 

calculation when statistically reliable 

two-bedroom data are not available 

preserves the use of local information to 

the greatest extent possible. 

However, where statistically reliable 

‘‘all-bedroom’’ data are not available, 

HUD will continue to base FMR areas’ 

recent-mover factors on larger 

geographic areas. HUD tests data from 

differently sized geographic areas in the 

following order (from small to large), 

and bases the recent-mover factor on the 

first statistically reliable recent-mover 

rent estimate in the geographic 

hierarchy listed below. 

• For metropolitan areas that are subareas of larger metropolitan areas, the 

order is the FMR area, metropolitan 

area, aggregated metropolitan parts of 

the state, and state. 

• For metropolitan areas that are not 

divided, the order is the FMR area, 

aggregated metropolitan parts of the 

state, and state. 

• In non-metropolitan areas, the order 

is the FMR area, aggregated nonmetropolitan parts of the state, and 

state. 

Applying the recent-mover factor to 

the standard quality base rent produces 

an ‘‘as of’’ 2019 recent mover twobedroom gross rent for the FMR area. 

C. Other Rent Survey Data 

HUD calculates base rents for the 

insular areas using data collected during 

the 2010 decennial census of American 

Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, 

and the Virgin Islands beginning with 

the FY 2016 FMRs.7 HUD updates the 

2010 base year data to 2019 using the 

growth in national ACS data for the FY 

2022 FMRs. Note that while the 2010 

decennial census also included Guam, 

HUD uses the result of a more recent 

rent survey in calculating the FMRs for 

Guam, as discussed in the following 

paragraph. 

HUD does not use ACS data to 

establish the base rent or recent-mover 

factor where the FY 2021 FMRs are 

based on locally collected survey data 

which are more recent than the 2019 

ACS. For larger metropolitan areas that 

have valid ACS one-year recent-mover 

data, survey data may not be any older 

than the mid-point of the calendar year 

for the ACS one-year data. Since the 

ACS one-year data used for the FY 2022 

FMRs is from 2019, larger areas with 

valid one-year recent mover data may 

not use other survey data collected 

before June 30, 2019 for the FY 2022 

FMRs. Areas without statistically 

reliable 1-year ACS data may continue 

to use local survey data until the midpoint of the 5-year ACS data is more 

recent than the local survey. For FY 

2022 FMRs, there are 18 areas that are 

based on local ad hoc surveys: 

• HUD uses survey data from 2017 to 

calculate the FMRs for Hood River 

County, OR; Wasco County, OR; Hawaii 

County, HI; and the Jonesboro, AR 

HMFA. 

• HUD uses survey data from 2018 to 

calculate the FMRs for Coos County, 

OR; Curry County, OR; and Douglas 

County, OR. 

• HUD uses survey data from 2019 to 

calculate the FMRs for Kauai County, 

HI; Eugene-Springfield, OR MSA; 

Portland, ME HUD Metro FMR Area; 

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA MSA; 

Worcester, MA HUD Metro FMR Area; 

and Guam. 

• HUD uses survey data from 2020 to 

calculate the FMRs for Santa CruzWatsonville, CA MSA; Houston-The 

Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX HUD Metro 

FMR Area, Knox County, ME; Lincoln 

County, ME; and Waldo County, ME. 

D. CPI Gross Rent Adjustment Factors 

HUD updates the ACS-based ‘‘as of’’ 

2019 rent through 2020 using the annual 

change in gross rents measured through 

the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 

2019 to 2020 (CPI update factor). HUD 

uses local CPI data for FMR areas within 

Class A metropolitan areas covered by 

local CPI data. HUD uses CPI data 

aggregated at the Census region level for 

all Class B and C size metropolitan areas 

and non-metropolitan areas. 

Additionally, HUD uses CPI data 

collected locally in Puerto Rico as the 

basis for CPI adjustments from 2019 to 

2020 for all Puerto Rico FMR areas. 

E. Trend Factor Forecasts 

Following the application of the 

appropriate CPI update factor, HUD 

trends the gross rent estimate from 2020 

to FY 2022 using a trend factor which 

is based on local or regional forecasts of 

CPI gross rent data. HUD derived a trend 

factor for each Class A CPI area and 

Class B/C CPI region using time series 

models based on national inputs 

(National Input Model or NIM), local 

inputs (Local Input Model or LIM) and 

historical values of the predicted series 

(Pure Time Series—PTS). HUD chose 

the actual model used for each CPI 

area’s trend factor based on which 

model generates the lowest Root Mean 

Square Error (RMSE) statistic and 

applied the trend factors to the 

corresponding FMR areas. HUD is 

holding the type of model selected 

(NIM, LIM, or PTS) constant for 5 years 

and will reassess the model selections 

during the calculation of the FY 2025 

FMRs. More details on the trend factor 

forecasts are available in the June 5, 

2019 Federal Register notice (84 FR 

26141) and are available at https://

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2019/06/05/2019-11763/proposedchanges-to-the-methodology-used-forestimating-fair-market-rents. 

E. Bedroom Rent Adjustments 

HUD updates the bedroom ratios used 

in the calculation of FMRs annually. 

The bedroom ratios used in the 

calculation of FY 2022 FMRs are 

calculated from three five-year ACS data 

series (2013–2017, 2014–2018, and 

2015–2019). HUD only uses estimates 

with a margin of error ratio of less than 

50 percent. If an area does not have 

reliable estimates in at least two of the 

previous three ACS releases, HUD uses 

the bedroom ratios for the area’s larger 

parent geography. 

HUD uses two-bedroom units for its 

primary calculation of FMR estimates. 

This is generally the most common size 

of rental unit and, therefore, the most 

reliable to survey and analyze. After 

estimating two-bedroom FMRs, HUD 

calculates bedroom ratios for each FMR 

area which relate the prices of smaller 

and larger units to the cost of twobedroom units. To ensure an adequate 

distributional fit in these bedroom ratio 

calculations for individual FMR areas, 

HUD establishes bedroom interval 

ranges which set upper and lower limits 

for bedroom ratios nationwide, based on 

an analysis of the range of such intervals 

for all areas with large enough samples 

to permit accurate bedroom ratio 

determinations. 

In the calculation of FY 2022 FMR 

estimates, HUD sets the bedroom 


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8As mentioned above, HUD applies the interval 

ranges for the three-bedroom and four-bedroom 

FMR ratios prior to making these adjustments. In 

other words, the adjusted three- and four-bedroom 

FMRs can exceed the interval ranges, but the 

unadjusted FMRs cannot. 

9As established in the interim rules 

implementing the provisions of the Quality Housing 

and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Title V of the 

FY 1999 HUD Appropriations Act; Pub. L. 105– 

276). In 24 CFR 982.604. 

10For example, for FY 2022 Small Area FMRs, 

HUD averages the gross rents from 2017, 2018, and 

2019 5-Year ACS estimates. The 2017 and 2018 

gross rent estimates would be adjusted to 2019 

dollars using the metropolitan area’s gross rent CPI 

adjustment factors. 

interval ranges as follows: Efficiency 

FMRs are constrained to fall between 

0.66 and 0.86 of the two-bedroom FMR; 

one-bedroom FMRs must be between 

0.76 and 0.88 of the two-bedroom FMR; 

three-bedroom FMRs (prior to the 

adjustments described below) must be 

between 1.14 and 1.31 of the twobedroom FMR; and four-bedroom FMRs 

(again, prior to adjustment) must be 

between 1.26 and 1.59 of the twobedroom FMR. Given that these interval 

ranges partially overlap across unit 

bedroom counts, HUD further adjusts 

bedroom ratios for a given FMR area, if 

necessary, to ensure that higher 

bedroom-count units have higher rents 

than lower bedroom-count units within 

that area. 

HUD also further adjusts the rents for 

three-bedroom and larger units to reflect 

HUD’s policy to set higher rents for 

these units.8 This adjustment is 

intended to increase the likelihood that 

the largest families, who have the most 

difficulty in leasing units, will be 

successful in finding eligible program 

units. The adjustment adds 8.7 percent 

to the unadjusted three-bedroom FMR 

estimates and adds 7.7 percent to the 

unadjusted four-bedroom FMR 

estimates. 

HUD derives FMRs for units with 

more than four bedrooms by adding 15 

percent to the four-bedroom FMR for 

each extra bedroom. For example, the 

FMR for a five-bedroom unit is 1.15 

times the four-bedroom FMR, and the 

FMR for a six-bedroom unit is 1.30 

times the four-bedroom FMR. Similarly, 

HUD derives FMRs for single-room 

occupancy units by subtracting 25 

percent from the zero-bedroom FMR 

(i.e., they are set at 0.75 times the zerobedroom (efficiency) FMR).9

F. Minimum FMRs 

All FMRs are subject to a state or 

national minimum. HUD calculates a 

population-weighted median twobedroom FMR across all nonmetropolitan counties or countyequivalents of each state, which, for the 

purposes of FMRs, is the state minimum 

rent. State-minimum rents for each FMR 

area are available in the FY 2022 FMR 

Documentation System, available at 

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html#2022_query. HUD 

also calculates the population-weighted 

median FMR rent across all nonmetropolitan areas of the country, 

which, for the purposes of FMRs, is the 

national minimum rent. For FY 2022, 

the national minimum rent is $757. The 

applicable minimum rent for a 

particular area is the lower of the state 

or national minimum. Each area’s twobedroom FMR must be no less than the 

applicable minimum rent. 

G. Limit on FMR Decreases 

Within the Small Area FMR final rule 

published on November 16, 2016, HUD 

amended 24 CFR 888.113 to include a 

limit on the amount that FMRs may 

annually decrease. The current year’s 

FMRs resulting from the application of 

the bedroom ratios, as discussed in 

section (E) above, may be no less than 

90 percent of the prior year’s FMRs for 

units with the same number of 

bedrooms. Accordingly, if the current 

year’s FMRs are less than 90 percent of 

the prior year’s FMRs as calculated by 

the above methodology, HUD sets the 

current year’s FMRs equal to 90 percent 

of the prior year’s FMRs. For areas 

where use of Small Area FMRs in the 

administration of their voucher 

programs is required, the FY 2022 Small 

Area FMRs may be no less than 90 

percent of the FY 2021 Small Area 

FMRs. For all other metropolitan areas, 

the FY 2022 Small Area FMRs may be 

no less than 90 percent of the greater of 

the FY 2021 metropolitan area wide 

FMRs or the applicable FY 2021 Small 

Area FMR. 

PHAs operating in areas where the 

calculated FMR is lower than the 

published FMR (i.e., those areas where 

HUD has limited the decrease in the 

annual change in the FMR to 10 

percent) may request payment standards 

below the basic range (24 CFR 

982.503(d)) and reference the 

‘‘unfloored’’ rents (i.e., the unfinalized 

FMRs calculated by HUD prior to 

application of the 10-percent-decrease 

limit) depicted in the FY 2022 FMR 

Documentation System (available at: 

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html#2022_query). 

IV. Small Area FMRs 

HUD lists Small Area FMRs for all 

metropolitan areas in the Small Area 

FMR Schedule. Metropolitan PHAs 

operating in areas where the use of 

Small Area FMRs are not mandated 

should contact their local HUD field 

office to request approval for using 

Small Area FMRs in the operation of 

their Housing Choice Voucher program. 

HUD calculates Small Area FMRs 

directly from the standard quality gross 

rents provided to HUD by the Census 

Bureau for ZIP Code Tabulation Areas 

(ZCTAs) when such data are statistically 

reliable. The ZCTA two-bedroom 

equivalent 40th percentile gross rent is 

analogous to the standard quality base 

rents set for metropolitan areas and nonmetropolitan counties. For each ZCTA 

with statistically reliable gross rent 

estimates, using the expanded test of 

statistical reliability first used in FY 

2018 (i.e., estimates with margins of 

error ratios below 50 percent and based 

on at least 100 observations), HUD 

calculates a two-bedroom equivalent 

40th percentile gross rent using the first 

statistically reliable gross rent 

distribution data from the following 

data sets (in this order): Two-bedroom 

gross rents, one-bedroom gross rents, 

and three-bedroom gross rents. If either 

the one-bedroom or three-bedroom gross 

rent data are used because the twobedroom gross rent data are not 

statistically reliable, HUD converts the 

one-bedroom or three-bedroom 40th 

percentile gross rent to a two-bedroom 

equivalent rent using the bedroom ratios 

for the ZCTA’s parent metropolitan area. 

To increase stability to these Small Area 

FMR estimates, HUD averages the latest 

three years of gross rent estimates.10

For ZCTAs without usable gross rent 

data by bedroom size, HUD calculates 

Small Area FMRs using the rent ratio 

method. To calculate Small Area FMRs 

using a rent ratio, HUD divides the 

median gross rent across all bedrooms 

for the ZCTA by the similar median 

gross rent for the metropolitan area of 

the ZCTA. If a ZCTA does not have 

reliable rent data at the all-bedroom 

level, HUD will then check to see if the 

ZCTA borders other ZCTAs that 

themselves have reliable rent data. If at 

least half of a ZCTA’s ‘‘neighbors’’ have 

such data, HUD will use the weighted 

average of those estimates as the basis 

for the SAFMR rather than a county 

proxy, where the weight is the length of 

the shared boundary between the ZCTA 

and its neighbor. In small areas where 

the neighboring ZCTA median gross 

rents are not statistically reliable, HUD 

substitutes the median gross rent for the 

county containing the ZIP code in the 

numerator of the rent ratio calculation. 

HUD multiplies this rent ratio by the 

current two-bedroom FMR for the 

metropolitan area containing the small 

area to generate the current year twobedroom FMR for the small area. 

HUD continues to use a rolling 

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11Although there are no longer 50th percentile 

FMRs, HUD must calculate 50th percentile rents for 

the Success Rate Payment Standard under 24 CFR 

982.503(e). 

Small Area FMR rent ratios. HUD 

believes coupling the most current data 

with previous year’s data minimizes 

excessive year-to-year variability in 

Small Area FMR rent ratios due to 

sampling variance. Therefore, for FY 

2022 Small Area FMRs, HUD has 

updated the rent ratios to use an average 

of the rent ratios calculated from the 

2013–2017, 2014–2018, and 2015–2019 

5-year ACS estimates. 

HUD limits each two-bedroom Small 

Area FMR to be no more than 150 

percent of the two-bedroom FMR for the 

metropolitan area where the ZIP code is 

located. 

V. Request for Public Comments and 

FMR Reevaluations 

HUD accepts public comments on the 

methods HUD uses to calculate FY 2022 

FMRs and requests for reevaluation of 

FMRs for specific areas prior to the 

effective date of this notice. HUD lacks 

the resources to conduct local surveys of 

rents to address comments filed 

regarding the FMR levels for specific 

areas. PHAs may continue to fund such 

surveys independently, as specified 

below, using ongoing administrative 

fees or their administrative fee reserve if 

they so choose. HUD continually strives 

to calculate FMRs that meet the 

statutory requirement of using ‘‘the most 

recent available data’’ while also serving 

as an effective program parameter. 

FMR Reevaluations 

42 U.S.C. 1437f (c)(1)(B) includes the 

following: ‘‘The Secretary shall establish 

a procedure for public housing agencies 

and other interested parties to comment 

on such fair market rentals and to 

request, within a time specified by the 

Secretary, reevaluation of the fair 

market rentals in a jurisdiction before 

such rentals become effective.’’ 

PHAs or other parties interested in 

requesting HUD’s reevaluation of their 

area’s FY 2022 FMRs, as provided for 

under section 8(c)(1)(B) of USHA, must 

follow the following procedures: 

1. Prior to the effective date of this 

notice, PHAs or other parties must 

submit reevaluation requests through 

https://www.regulations.gov/ or directly 

to HUD as described above. The area’s 

PHA or, in multi-jurisdictional areas, 

PHA(s) representing at least half of the 

voucher tenants in the FMR area, must 

agree that the reevaluation is necessary. 

2. The requestor(s) must supply HUD 

with data more recent than the 2019 

ACS data used in the calculation of the 

FY 2022 FMRs. HUD requires data on 

gross rents paid in the FMR area for 

occupied standard quality rental 

housing units. Occupied recent mover 

units (defined as those who moved in 

the past 24 months) provide the best 

data. The data delivered must be 

sufficient for HUD to calculate a 40th 

and 50th percentile two-bedroom gross 

rent.11 Should this type of data not be 

available, requestors may gather this 

information using the survey guidance 

available at https://www.huduser.gov/ 

portal/datasets/fmr/ 

NoteRevisedAreaSurveyProcedures.pdf 

and https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr/PrinciplesforPHAConductedAreaRentSurveys.pdf. 

3. Areas where valid reevaluation 

requests are submitted must continue to 

use FY 2021 FMRs whether the FY 2022 

FMRs are lower or higher than the FY 

2021 FMRs. Following the comment 

period, HUD will post a list, at https:// 

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html, of the areas requesting 

reevaluations and where FY 2021 FMRs 

remain in effect. 

4. PHAs or other parties must supply 

data for reevaluations to HUD no later 

than Friday January 7, 2022. All survey 

responses of rental units gathered as 

part of the survey efforts should be 

delivered to HUD. In addition to the 

survey data, HUD requires a current 

utility schedule in order to evaluate the 

survey responses. Finally, HUD 

encourages PHAs to evaluate their 

survey data to ensure the survey 

supports their request. Should PHAs or 

their contractors undertake this 

evaluation, HUD requests that this 

analysis also be submitted. 

HUD will use the data delivered by 

January 7, 2022 to reevaluate the FMRs 

and following the reevaluation, will 

post revised FMRs in April of 2022 with 

an accompanying Federal Register 

notice stating the revised FMRs are 

available, which will include HUD’s 

responses to comments filed during the 

comment period for this notice. On 

Monday January 10, 2022, HUD will 

post at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html a listing of the areas 

that requested FMR reevaluations but 

did not deliver data and making the FY 

2022 FMRs effective in these areas. HUD 

will incorporate any data supporting a 

change in FMRs supplied after January 

7, 2022 into FY 2023 FMRs. Questions 

on how to conduct FMR surveys may be 

addressed to the Program Parameters 

and Research Division at pprd@hud.gov. 

For small metropolitan areas without 

one-year ACS data and nonmetropolitan counties, HUD has 

developed a method using mail surveys 

that is discussed on the FMR web page: 

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ 

datasets/fmr.html#survey_info. This 

method allows for the collection of as 

few as 100 one-bedroom, two-bedroom, 

and three-bedroom units. 

Other survey methods are acceptable 

in providing data to support 

reevaluation requests if the survey 

method can provide statistically 

reliable, unbiased estimates of gross 

rents paid of the entire FMR area. In 

general, recommendations for FMR 

changes and supporting data must 

reflect the rent levels that exist within 

the entire FMR area and should be 

statistically reliable. 

PHAs in non-metropolitan areas are 

required to get 100 eligible survey 

responses which means they should 

have at least 5,000 rental units. PHAs 

may conduct surveys of groups of nonmetropolitan counties to increase the 

number of rental units that are 

surveyed, but HUD must approve all 

county-grouped surveys in advance. 

HUD cautions that the resulting FMRs 

may not be identical for the counties 

surveyed; each individual FMR area 

will have a separate FMR based on the 

relationship of rents in that area to the 

combined rents in the cluster of FMR 

areas. In addition, HUD advises that in 

counties where FMRs are based on the 

combined rents in the cluster of FMR 

areas, HUD will not revise their FMRs 

unless the grouped survey results show 

a revised FMR statistically different 

from the combined rent level. 

Survey samples should preferably be 

randomly drawn from a complete list of 

rental units for the FMR area. If this is 

not feasible, the selected sample must 

be drawn to be statistically 

representative of the entire rental 

housing stock of the FMR area. Surveys 

must include units at all rent levels and 

be representative by structure type 

(including single-family, duplex, and 

other small rental properties), age of 

housing unit, and geographic location. 

The current 5-year ACS data should be 

used as a means of verifying if a sample 

is representative of the FMR area’s 

rental housing stock. Staff from HUD’s 

Program Parameters and Research 

Division will work with PHAs in areas 

requesting re-evaluations to provide the 

minimum number of survey cases 

required to ensure that data submitted 

for re-evaluation represent a statistically 

valid sample. 

A PHA or contractor that cannot 

obtain the recommended number of 

sample responses after reasonable 

efforts should consult with HUD before 

abandoning its survey; in such 

situations, HUD may find it appropriate 

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requirements, but in no case will fewer 

than 100 eligible cases be considered. 

Calculating Small Area FMRs Using 

Rent Distributions 

HUD has developed guidance on how 

to provide data-supported comments on 

Small Area FMRs using HUD’s special 

tabulations of the distribution of gross 

rents by unit bedroom count for ZIP 

Code Tabulation Areas. This guidance is 

available at https://www.huduser.gov/ 

portal/datasets/fmr.html in the FY 2022 

FMR section under the ‘‘Documents’’ 

tab and should be used by interested 

parties in commenting on whether or 

not the level of Small Area FMRs are too 

high or too low (i.e., Small Area FMRs 

that are larger than the gross rent 

necessary to make 40 percent of the 

units accessible for an individual zip 

code or that are smaller than the gross 

rent necessary to make 40 percent of the 

units accessible for a given zip code). 

HUD will post revised Small Area FMRs 

after confirming commenters’ 

calculations. 

VI. Environmental Impact 

This Notice involves the 

establishment of FMR schedules, which 

do not constitute a development 

decision affecting the physical 

condition of specific project areas or 

building sites. Accordingly, under 24 

CFR 50.19(c)(6), this Notice is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321). 

Accordingly, the Fair Market Rent 

Schedules, which will not be codified in 

24 CFR part 888, are available at https:// 

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html. 

Todd Richardson, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy 

Development and Research. 

Fair Market Rents for the Housing 

Choice Voucher Program 

Schedule B—General Explanatory Notes 

Arrangement of FMR Areas and 

Identification of Constituent Parts 

a. The Metropolitan and NonMetropolitan FMR Area Schedule lists 

FMRs alphabetically by state, by 

metropolitan area and by nonmetropolitan county within each state 

and are available at https://

www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ 

fmr.html. 

b. The schedule lists the constituent 

counties (and New England towns and 

cities) included in each metropolitan 

FMR area immediately following the 

listings of the FMR dollar amounts. All 

constituent parts of a metropolitan FMR 

area that are in more than one state can 

be identified by consulting the listings 

for each applicable state. 

c. The schedule lists two nonmetropolitan counties alphabetically on 

each line of the non-metropolitan 

county listings. 

d. Similarly, the schedule lists the 

New England towns and cities included 

in a non-metropolitan county 

immediately following the county name. 

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AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

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ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

proposes to renew an information 

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DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

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ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

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3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the general public and other 

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and continuing collections of 

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impact of our information collection 

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reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

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requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

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2021 (86 FR 17188). No comments were 

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As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

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(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

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(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

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Abstract: Section 209(b) of the Federal 

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mineral interests to non-Federal owners 

of the surface estate. The respondents in 

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