236, Indian Housing, Moderate Rehabilitation, and other FHA programs are included in the total. Units shown are under contract and either occupied or available for occupancy. Units that receive multiple HUD subsidies are counted once.
Welfare refers to households that receive the majority of their income from welfare.
The purpose was to estimate the typical rent paid by tenants who had recently moved into standard-quality housing units. HUD uses this rent standard in its Section 8 Housing Certificate and Voucher assistance programs. In cases in which the rent survey estimates were statistically different from HUD's estimates, the FMR was increased or decreased. The table below lists the date and 40th-percentile gross rent from all of the 75 RDD surveys conducted by professional firms during 1997 and 2 conducted in late 1996. Professionally Conducted Random Digit Dialing Surveys, cont .