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full investigation and appropriate civil
and/or criminal proceedings.
IV. Records To Be Matched
HHS will conduct the matching of
tenant SSNs, full names, and dates of
births (DOBs) to tenant data HUD
supplies from its Tenant Rental
Assistance Certification System
(TRACS) (HUD/H–11) and Public and
Indian Housing Information Center (PIC)
system (HUD/PIH–4). Program
administrators utilize the form HUD–
50058 module within the PIC system
and the form HUD–50059 module
within the TRACS to provide HUD with
the tenant data.
HHS will match the tenant records
included in HUD/H–11 and HUD/PIH–
4 to NDNH records contained in HHS’
‘‘Location and Collection System of
Records,’’ No. 09–90–0074. HUD will
place the resulting matched data into its
Enterprise Income Verification (EIV)
system (HUD/PIH–5). The notice for this
system was published at 72 FR 17589,
and subsequently updated and
published in the Federal Register on
September 1, 2009, at 74 FR 45235.
Routine uses of records maintained in
the system, including categories of users
and purposes of such uses was
published in that Notice.
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V. Period of the Match
The matching program will become
effective and the matching may
commence after the respective Data
Integrity Boards (DIBs) of both agencies
approve and sign the computer
matching agreement, and after, the later
of the following: (1) 40 days after report
of the matching program is sent to
Congress and OMB; (2) at least 30 days
after publication of this notice in the
Federal Register, unless comments are
received, which would result in a
contrary determination. The computer
matching program will be conducted
according to agreement between HUD
and HHS. The computer matching
agreement for the planned match will
terminate either when the purpose of
the computer matching program is
accomplished, or 18 months from the
effective date. The agreement may be
renewed for one 12-month period, with
the mutual agreement of all involved
parties, if the following conditions are
met:
(1) Within three months of the expiration
date, all Data Integrity Boards (DIBs) review
the agreement, find that the program will be
conducted without change, and find a
continued favorable examination of benefit/
cost results; and (2) All parties certify that
the program has been conducted in
compliance with the agreement.
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The agreement may be terminated,
prior to accomplishment of the
computer matching purpose or 18
months from the date the agreement is
signed (whichever comes first), by the
mutual agreement of all involved parties
within 30 days of written notice.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a; 88 Stat. 1896; 42
U.S.C. 3535(d).
Dated: July 17, 2013.
Harold E. Williams,
Acting Chief Information Officer.
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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5725–N–01]
Proposed Fair Market Rents for the
Housing Choice Voucher Program,
Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room
Occupancy Program and Other
Programs Fiscal Year 2014
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of Proposed Fiscal Year
(FY) 2014 Fair Market Rents (FMRs).
AGENCY:
Section 8(c)(1) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA)
requires the Secretary to publish FMRs
periodically, but not less than annually,
adjusted to be effective on October 1 of
each year. The primary uses of FMRs are
to determine payment standards for the
Housing Choice Voucher (HCV)
program, to determine initial renewal
rents for some expiring project-based
Section 8 contracts, to determine initial
rents for housing assistance payment
contracts in the Moderate Rehabilitation
Single Room Occupancy program, and
to serve as rent ceilings in the HOME
program. FMRs are also used in the
calculation of maximum award amounts
for Continuum of Care grantees. Today’s
notice provides proposed FY 2014
FMRs for all areas that reflect the
estimated 40th and 50th percentile rent
levels trended to April 1, 2014. The FY
2014 FMRs are based on 5-year, 2007–
2011 data collected by the American
Community Survey (ACS). These data
are updated by one-year ACS data for
areas where statistically valid one-year
ACS data is available. The Consumer
Price Index (CPI) rent and utility
indexes are used to further update the
data from 2011 to the end of 2012. HUD
continues to use ACS data in different
ways according to the statistical
reliability of rent estimates for areas of
different population sizes and counts of
rental units.
SUMMARY:
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The proposed FY 2014 FMR areas are
based on Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) metropolitan area
definitions as updated through
December 1, 2009 and include HUD
modifications that were first used in the
determination of FY 2006 FMR areas.
The February 28, 2013 OMB Area
definition update has not been
incorporated in the FMR process due to
the timing of the release and the
availability of ACS data. HUD will work
toward incorporating these new area
definitions into the Proposed FY 2015
FMR calculations; however, this is
dependent on the availability of ACS
data conforming to the new area
definitions.
The proposed FY 2014 FMRs in this
notice reflect several updates to the
methodology used to calculate FMRs.
HUD has updated the information used
to calculate FMRs in Puerto Rico. Puerto
Rico FMRs are now based on 2007–2011
Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS)
data (the PRCS is a part of the ACS
program). Moreover, HUD is using
Consumer Price Index data calculated
specifically for Puerto Rico rather than
using South Census Region CPI data.
Additionally, these FMRs continue to
use the annually updated trend factor
calculation methodology. This trend
factor for the FY2014 FMRs is based on
the change in national gross rents from
2006 to 2011.
Comment Due Date: September
4, 2013.
DATES:
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
the proposed FMRs to 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’’ section. There are two
methods for submitting public
comments.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail.
Comments may be submitted 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
mail often results in delayed delivery.
To ensure timely receipt of comments,
HUD recommends that comments
submitted by mail be submitted at least
two weeks in advance of the public
comment deadline.
ADDRESSES:
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2. Electronic Submission of
Comments. Interested persons may
submit comments electronically through
the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. HUD
strongly encourages commenters to
submit comments electronically.
Electronic submission of comments
allows the commenter maximum time to
prepare and submit a comment, ensures
timely receipt by HUD, and enables
HUD to make them immediately
available to the public. Comments
submitted electronically through the
https://www.regulations.gov Web site can
be viewed by other commenters and
interested members of the public.
Commenters should follow instructions
provided on that site to submit
comments electronically.
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Note: To receive consideration as public
comments, comments must be submitted
through one of the two methods specified
above. Again, all submissions must refer to
the docket number and title of the rule.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile
(FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public
Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications
submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between
8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the above
address. Due to security measures at the
HUD Headquarters building, an advance
appointment to review the public
comments must be scheduled by calling
the Regulations Division at 202–708–
3055 (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with speech or hearing
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the Federal
Relay Service at 800–877–8339. Copies
of all comments submitted are available
for inspection and downloading at
https://www.regulations.gov.
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 Web site https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/
fmr.html. FMRs are listed at the 40th or
50th percentile in Schedule B. For
informational purposes, 40th percentile
recent-mover rents for the areas with
50th percentile FMRs will be provided
in the HUD FY 2014 FMR
documentation system at https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/
fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14 and 50th
percentile rents for all FMR areas will
be published at https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/
50per.html after publication of final FY
2014 FMRs.
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Questions related to use of FMRs or
voucher payment standards should be
directed to the respective local HUD
program staff. Questions on how to
conduct FMR surveys or concerning
further methodological explanations
may be addressed to Marie L. Lihn or
Peter B. Kahn, Economic and Market
Analysis Division, Office of Economic
Affairs, Office of Policy Development
and Research, telephone 202–708–0590.
Persons with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339.
(Other than the HUD USER information
line and TDD numbers, telephone
numbers are not toll-free.)
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 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). In general, the FMR for
an area is the amount that would be
needed 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. In addition, all rents
subsidized under the HCV program
must meet reasonable rent standards.
HUD’s regulations at 24 CFR 888.113
permit it to establish 50th percentile
FMRs for certain areas.
Electronic Data Availability: This
Federal Register notice will be available
electronically from the HUD User page
at https://www.huduser.org/datasets/
fmr.html. Federal Register notices also
are available electronically from https://
www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/, the
U.S. Government Printing Office Web
site. Complete documentation of the
methodology and data used to compute
each area’s proposed FY 2014 FMRs is
available at https://www.huduser.org/
portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/
docsys.html&data=fmr14. Proposed FY
2014 FMRs are available in a variety of
electronic formats at https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/
fmr.html. FMRs may be accessed in PDF
format as well as in Microsoft Excel.
Small Area FMRs based on proposed FY
2014 Metropolitan Area Rents are
available in Microsoft Excel format at
the same web address. Please note that
these Small Area FMRs are for reference
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only, except where they are used by
public housing agencies (PHAs)
participating in the Small Area FMR
demonstration.
II. Procedures for the Development of
FMRs
Section 8(c) of the USHA requires the
Secretary of HUD to publish FMRs
periodically, but not less frequently
than annually. Section 8(c) states, in
part, as follows:
Proposed fair market rentals for an area
shall be published in the Federal Register
with reasonable time for public comment and
shall become effective upon the date of
publication in final form in the Federal
Register. Each fair market rental in effect
under this subsection 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, of rents for
existing or newly constructed rental dwelling
units, as the case may be, of various sizes and
types in this section.
HUD’s regulations at 24 CFR part 888
provide that HUD will develop
proposed FMRs, publish them for public
comment, provide a public comment
period of at least 30 days, analyze the
comments, and publish final FMRs. (See
24 CFR 888.115.)
In addition, HUD’s regulations at 24
CFR 888.113 set out procedures for HUD
to assess whether areas are eligible for
FMRs at the 50th percentile. Minimally
qualified areas 1 are reviewed each year
unless not qualified to be reviewed.
Areas are not qualified to be reviewed
if they have been made a 50th-percentile
area within the last three years or have
lost 50th-percentile status for failure to
de-concentrate within the last three
years.
In FY 2013 there were 20 areas using
50th-percentile FMRs. Of these 20 areas,
only one area, the Bergen-Passaic, NJ
HMFA, has completed three years of
program participation and is due for reevaluation. Voucher tenant
concentration in the Bergen-Passaic, NJ
HMFA has decreased below what is
required to be eligible for a 50th
percentile FMR and the area has
‘‘graduated’’ from the 50th percentile
program. Under current 50th percentile
regulations, the Bergen-Passaic, NJ
1 As defined in 24 CFR 888.113(c), a minimally
qualified area is an area with at least 100 census
tracts where 70 percent or fewer of the census tracts
with at least 10 two bedroom rental units are census
tracts in which at least 30 percent of the two
bedroom rental units have gross rents at or below
the two bedroom FMR set at the 40th percentile
rent. This continues to be evaluated with 2000
Decennial Census information. Although the 5-year
ACS tract level data is available, HUD plans to
implement new 50th percentile areas in
conjunction with the implementation of new OMB
area definitions.
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HMFA will be evaluated annually and
may return to the program in the future.
In summary, there will be 19 50thpercentile FMR areas in FY 2014. These
areas are indicated by an asterisk in
Schedule B, where all FMRs are listed
by state. The following table lists the
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FMR areas along with the year of their
next evaluation.
FY 2014 50TH-PERCENTILE FMR AREAS AND YEAR OF NEXT REEVALUATION
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX MSA .............................................................................................................................................
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX HUD Metro FMR Area ....................................................................................................................................
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT HUD Metro FMR Area ..........................................................................................................
Honolulu, HI MSA ....................................................................................................................................................................................
Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX HUD Metro FMR Area .....................................................................................................................
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA ................................................................................................................................................................
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL MSA ................................................................................................................................................
Orange County, CA HUD Metro FMR Area ............................................................................................................................................
Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ MSA ...........................................................................................................................................................
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA ..........................................................................................................................................
Sacramento—Arden-Arcade—Roseville, CA HUD Metro FMR Area .....................................................................................................
Tucson, AZ MSA .....................................................................................................................................................................................
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA–NC MSA .............................................................................................................................
Baltimore-Towson, MD HUD Metro FMR Area .......................................................................................................................................
Fort Lauderdale, FL HUD Metro FMR Area ............................................................................................................................................
New Haven-Meriden, CT HUD Metro FMR Area ....................................................................................................................................
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA–NJ–DE–MD MSA .......................................................................................................................
Richmond, VA HUD Metro FMR Area .....................................................................................................................................................
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL HUD Metro FMR Area ....................................................................................................................
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III. FMR Methodology
This section provides a brief overview
of how the FY 2014 FMRs are
computed. For complete information on
how FMR areas are determined, and on
how each area’s FMRs are derived, see
the online documentation at https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/
fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14.
The proposed FY 2014 FMRs are
based on OMB metropolitan area
definitions and standards that were first
used in the FY 2006 FMRs. OMB’s
changes to the area definitions through
December 2009 are incorporated as are
non-metropolitan county changes
published by the Census Bureau
through December 2011. The updated
metropolitan area definitions published
by OMB on February 28, 2013 were
published after HUD contracted with
the Census Bureau for the special
tabulations of ACS data necessary to
calculate FMRs; therefore, the FY 2014
area definitions are the same as those
used in FY 2013. HUD anticipates that
the new OMB area definitions will be
incorporated into the FY 2015 or FY
2016 proposed FMRs, depending on the
year that the Census Bureau
incorporates these area definitions in its
ACS data tabulations.
A. Base Year Rents
The U.S. Census Bureau released
standard tabulations of 5-year ACS data
collected between 2007 through 2011 in
December of 2012. For FY 2014 FMRs,
HUD used the 2007–2011 5-year ACS
data to update the base rents as was
done in FY 2012 using 2005–2009 ACS
data and again in FY 2013, using 2006–
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2010 data. HUD is also implementing
new base rents for Puerto Rico FMRs
based on 2007–2011 Puerto Rico
Community Survey data collected
through the American Community
Survey program. HUD has not
implemented the Puerto Rico
Community Survey data as base rents in
prior years due to concerns expressed
about the adequacy of the survey
results; however, when HUD
implements the new OMB metropolitan
area definitions, the Department will
have no choice but to use the ACS data
for determining FMRs in Puerto Rico.
Consequently, the Department is
implementing the new base rent data in
FY 2014 rather than try to implement
both base rent data and new area
definitions at the same time.
FMRs are historically based on gross
rents for recent movers (those who have
moved into their current residence in
the last 24 months). However, due to the
way the 5-year ACS data are
constructed, HUD developed a new
methodology for calculating recentmover FMRs in FY 2012. As in FY 2012,
all areas are assigned as a base rent the
estimated two-bedroom standard quality
5-year gross rent from the ACS.2
Because HUD’s regulations mandate that
FMRs must be published as recent
mover gross rents, HUD continues to
apply a recent mover factor to the
standard quality base rents assigned
2 For areas with a two-bedroom standard quality
gross rent from the ACS that have a margin of error
greater than the estimate or no estimate due to
inadequate sample in the 2007–2011 5-year ACS,
HUD uses the two-bedroom state non-metro rent for
non-metro areas.
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from the 5-year ACS data. Calculation of
the recent mover factor is described
below.
The ACS is not used as the base rent
for seven areas where the FY 2013 FMR
was adjusted based on survey data
conducted by the PHA (for Hood River,
OR) and by HUD (for Cheyenne, WY,
Odessa, TX, Burlington, VT, Mountrail
County, ND, Ward County, ND, and
Williams County, ND). In addition, the
ACS will not be the base rent for two
additional areas surveyed by HUD
where the FY 2013 FMR was not
adjusted (Flagstaff, AZ and Rochester,
MN) and for an additional PHAsurveyed area (Oakland, CA). HUD has
commissioned local area surveys in
Danbury, CT, Barnes County, ND,
Lamoure County, ND, Ransom County,
ND and Stutsman County, ND and will
replace ACS base rents with survey
generated base rents if the survey results
provide evidence that the base rents
require adjustments.
B. Recent Mover Factor
Following the assignment of the
standard quality two-bedroom rent
described above, HUD applies a recent
mover factor to these rents. The
calculation of the recent mover factor
for FY 2014 is similar to the
methodology used in FY 2013, with the
only difference being the use of updated
ACS data. As described below, HUD
calculates a similar percentage increase
as the FY 2013 factor using data from
the smallest geographic area containing
the FMR area where the recent mover
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gross rent is statistically reliable.3 The
following describes the process for
determining the appropriate recent
mover factor.
In general, HUD uses the 1 year ACSbased two-bedroom recent mover gross
rent estimate from the smallest
geographic area encompassing the FMR
area for which the estimate is
statistically reliable to calculate the
recent mover factor. HUD calculates
some areas’ recent mover factors using
data collected just for the FMR area.
Other areas’ recent mover factors are
based on larger geographic areas. For
metropolitan areas that are sub-areas of
larger metropolitan areas, the order is
subarea, metropolitan area, state
metropolitan area, and state.
Metropolitan areas that are not divided
follow a similar path from FMR area, to
state metropolitan areas, to state. In
nonmetropolitan areas the recent mover
factor is based on the FMR area, the
state nonmetropolitan area, or if that is
not available, on the basis of the whole
state. The recent mover factor is
calculated as the percentage change
between the 5-year 2007–2011 standard
quality two-bedroom gross rent and the
1 year 2011 recent mover two-bedroom
gross rent for the recent mover factor
area. Recent mover factors are not
allowed 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,
the recent mover factor is set to 1. The
process for calculating each area’s
recent mover factor is detailed in the FY
2014 Proposed FMR documentation
system available at: https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/
fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14.
This process produces an ‘‘as of’’ 2011
recent mover two-bedroom base gross
rent for the FMR area.4
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C. Updates From 2011 to 2012
The ACS-based ‘‘as of’’ 2011 rent is
updated through the end of 2012 using
the annual change in CPI from 2011 to
2012. As in previous years, HUD uses
Local CPI data coupled with Consumer
Expenditure Survey (CEX) data for FMR
areas with at least 75 percent of their
3 For the purpose of the recent mover factor
calculation, statistically reliable is where the recent
mover gross rent has a margin of error that is less
than the estimate itself.
4 The ACS is not conducted in the Pacific Islands
(Guam, Northern Marianas and American Samoa) or
the U.S. Virgin Islands. As part of the 2010
Decennial Census, the Census Bureau conducted a
‘‘long-form’’ sample surveys for these areas. The
results gathered by this long form survey were
expected to be available late in 2012; however,
these data have not yet become available. Therefore,
HUD uses the national change in gross rents,
measured between 2010 and 2011 to update last
year’s FMRs for these areas.
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population within Class A metropolitan
areas covered by local CPI data. HUD
uses Census region CPI data for FMR
areas in Class B and C size metropolitan
areas and nonmetropolitan areas
without local CPI update factors.
Additionally, HUD is using CPI data
collected locally in Puerto Rico as the
basis for CPI adjustments from 2011 to
2012 for all Puerto Rico FMR areas.
Following the application of the
appropriate CPI update factor, HUD
converts the ‘‘as of’’ 2012 CPI adjusted
rents to ‘‘as of’’ December 2012 rents by
multiplying each rent by the national
December 2012 CPI divided by the
national annual 2012 CPI value. HUD
does this in order to apply an exact
amount of the annual trend factor to
place the FY 2014 FMRs as of the midpoint of the 2014 fiscal year.
D. Trend From 2012 to 2014
As in FY 2013, HUD continues to
calculate the trend factor as the
annualized change in median gross
rents as measured across the most recent
5 years of available 1 year ACS data.
The national median gross rent in 2006
was $763 and $871 in 2011. The overall
change between 2006 and 2011 is 14.15
percent and the annualized change is
2.68 percent. Over a 15-month time
period, the effective trend factor is 3.365
percent.
E. Bedroom Rent Adjustments
HUD calculates the primary FMR
estimates for two-bedroom units. This is
generally the most common sized rental
unit and, therefore, the most reliable to
survey and analyze. Formerly, after each
Decennial Census, HUD calculated rent
relationships between two-bedroom
units and other unit sizes and used
them to set FMRs for other units. HUD
did this because it is much easier to
update two-bedroom estimates and to
use pre-established cost relationships
with other bedroom sizes than it is to
develop independent FMR estimates for
each bedroom size. When calculating
FY 2013 FMRs, HUD updated the
bedroom ratio adjustment factors using
2006–2010 5-year ACS data using
similar methodology to what was
implemented when calculating bedroom
ratios using 2000 Census data to
establish rent ratios. The bedroom ratios
used in the calculation of FY 2014
FMRs were updated this year using the
2006–2010 ACS data in conjunction
with the update of base rents to ACS
based data. HUD will continue to use
the same bedroom ratios until the 5-year
ACS from 2011–2015 is released,
probably in time for the FY 2018 FMRs.
HUD established bedroom interval
ranges based on an analysis of the range
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of such intervals for all areas with large
enough samples to permit accurate
bedroom ratio determinations. These
ranges are: Efficiency FMRs are
constrained to fall between 0.59 and
0.81 of the two-bedroom FMR; onebedroom FMRs must be between 0.74
and 0.84 of the two-bedroom FMR;
three-bedroom FMRs must be between
1.15 and 1.36 of the two-bedroom FMR;
and four-bedroom FMRs must be
between 1.24 and 1.64 of the twobedroom FMR. (The maximums for the
three-bedroom and four-bedroom FMRs
are irrespective of the adjustments
discussed in the next paragraph.) HUD
adjusts bedroom rents for a given FMR
area if the differentials between
bedroom-size FMRs were inconsistent
with normally observed patterns (i.e.,
efficiency rents are not allowed to be
higher than one-bedroom rents and fourbedroom rents are not allowed to be
lower than three-bedroom rents). The
bedroom ratios for Puerto Rico follow
these constraints.
HUD further adjusts the rents for
three-bedroom and larger units to reflect
HUD’s policy to set higher rents for
these units than would result from using
unadjusted market rents. 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 threebedroom FMR estimates and adds 7.7
percent to the unadjusted four-bedroom
FMR estimates. The FMRs for unit sizes
larger than four bedrooms are calculated
by adding 15 percent to the fourbedroom FMR for each extra bedroom.
For example, the FMR for a fivebedroom unit is 1.15 times the fourbedroom FMR, and the FMR for a sixbedroom unit is 1.30 times the fourbedroom FMR. FMRs for single-room
occupancy units are 0.75 times the zerobedroom (efficiency) FMR.
For low-population, nonmetropolitan
counties with small or statistically
insignificant 2006–2010 5-year ACS
recent-mover rents, HUD uses state nonmetropolitan data to determine bedroom
ratios for each bedroom size. HUD made
this adjustment to protect against
unrealistically high or low FMRs due to
insufficient sample sizes.
IV. Manufactured Home Space Surveys
The FMR used to establish payment
standard amounts for the rental of
manufactured home spaces in the HCV
program is 40 percent of the FMR for a
two-bedroom unit. HUD will consider
modification of the manufactured home
space FMRs where public comments
present statistically valid survey data
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showing the 40th-percentile
manufactured home space rent
(including the cost of utilities) for the
entire FMR area.
All approved exceptions to these rents
that were in effect in FY 2013 were
updated to FY 2014 using the same data
used to estimate the HCV program
FMRs. If the result of this computation
was higher than 40 percent of the new
two-bedroom rent, the exception
remains and is listed in Schedule D. The
FMR area definitions used for the rental
of manufactured home spaces are the
same as the area definitions used for the
other FMRs.
V. Small Area Fair Market Rents
Public housing authorities in the
Dallas, TX HMFA, along with the
Housing Authority of the County of
Cook (IL), the City of Long Beach (CA)
Housing Authority, the Chattanooga, TN
Housing Authority, the Town of
Mamaroneck (NY) Housing Authority,
and the Laredo, TX Housing Authority
continue to be the only PHAs managing
their voucher programs using Small
Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs).
These FMRs are listed in the Schedule
B addendum. The department is
working to secure more housing
authority participants in its Small Area
FMR Demonstration program.
SAFMRs are calculated using a rent
ratio determined by dividing the median
gross rent across all bedrooms for the
small area (a ZIP code) by the similar
median gross rent for the metropolitan
area of the ZIP code. This rent ratio is
multiplied by the current two- bedroom
rent for the entire metropolitan area
containing the small area to generate the
current year two-bedroom rent for the
small area. In small areas where the
median gross rent is not statistically
reliable, HUD substitutes the median
gross rent for the county containing the
ZIP code in the numerator of the rent
ratio calculation. For proposed FY 2014
SAFMRs, HUD continues to use the rent
ratios developed in conjunction with
the calculation of FY 2013 FMRs based
on 2006–2010 5-year ACS data.5
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VI. Request for Public Comments
HUD seeks public comments on the
methodology used to calculate FY 2014
Proposed FMRs and the FMR levels for
5 HUD has provided numerous detailed accounts
of the calculation methodology used for Small Area
Fair Market Rents. Please see our Federal Register
notice of April 20, 2011 (76 FR 22125) for more
information regarding the calculation methodology.
Also, HUD’s Proposed FY 2014 FMR
documentation system available at (https://
www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/
docsys.html&data=fmr14) contains detailed
calculations for each ZIP code area in participating
jurisdictions.
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specific areas. Due to its current funding
levels, HUD no longer has sufficient
resources to conduct local surveys of
rents to address comments filed
regarding the FMR levels for specific
areas. Commenters submitting
comments on FMR levels must include
sufficient information (including local
data and a full description of the rental
housing survey methodology used or a
description of the methodology
intended to be used to collect the
necessary data) to justify any proposed
changes.
For small metropolitan areas without
one-year ACS data and nonmetropolitan
counties, HUD has developed a
methodology using mail surveys that is
discussed on the bottom of the FMR
Web page: https://www.huduser.org/
portal/datasets/fmr.html. This
methodology allows for the collection of
as few as 100 one-bedroom, twobedroom and three-bedroom recent
mover (tenants that moved in last 24
months) units.
While HUD has not developed a
specific methodology for mail surveys
in areas with one-year ACS data, HUD
would apply the standard established
for Random-Digit Dialing (RDD)
telephone rent surveys of 200 onebedroom and two-bedroom recent
mover units and the RDD confidence
interval determination of the survey
statistical significance of data from
large-market mail surveys. Areas with
statistically reliable 1 year ACS data are
not considered to be good candidates for
local surveys due to the size and
completeness of the ACS process.
Other survey methodologies are
acceptable in providing data to support
comments if the survey methodology
can provide statistically reliable,
unbiased estimates of the gross rent. 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 nonmetropolitan areas may,
in certain circumstances, conduct
surveys of groups of counties. HUD
must approve all county-grouped
surveys in advance. PHAs are cautioned
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, PHAs are advised that
counties where FMRs are based on the
combined rents in the cluster of FMR
areas will not have their FMRs revised
unless the grouped survey results show
a revised FMR statistically different
from the combined rent level.
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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 2007–2011 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.
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
to relax normal sample size
requirements.
HUD will consider increasing
manufactured home space FMRs where
public comment demonstrates that 40
percent of the two-bedroom FMR is not
adequate. In order to be accepted as a
basis for revising the manufactured
home space FMRs, comments must
include a pad rental survey of the
mobile home parks in the area, identify
the utilities included in each park’s
rental fee, and provide a copy of the
applicable public housing authority’s
utility schedule.
As stated earlier in this Notice, HUD
is required to use the most recent data
available when calculating FMRs.
Therefore, in order to re-evaluate an
area’s FMR, HUD requires more current
rental market data than the 2011 ACS.
HUD encourages a PHA or other
interested party that believes the FMR
in their area is incorrect to file a
comment even if they do not have the
resources to provide market-wide rental
data. In these instances, HUD will use
the comments, should survey funding
be restored, when determining the areas
HUD will select for HUD-funded local
area rent surveys.
VII. Environmental Impact
This Notice involves the
establishment of fair market rent
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 proposed to be
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amended as shown in the Appendix to
this notice:
Dated: July 30, 2013.
Jean Lin Pao,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy
Development and Research.
Fair Market Rents for the Housing
Choice Voucher Program
Schedules B and D—General
Explanatory Notes
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1. Geographic Coverage
a. Metropolitan Areas—Most FMRs
are market-wide rent estimates that are
intended to provide housing
opportunities throughout the geographic
area in which rental-housing units are
in direct competition. HUD is using the
metropolitan Core-Based Statistical
Areas (CBSAs), which are made up of
one or more counties, as defined by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), with some modifications. HUD
is generally assigning separate FMRs to
the component counties of CBSA
Micropolitan Areas.
b. Modifications to OMB
Definitions—Following OMB guidance,
the estimation procedure for the FY
2014 proposed FMRs incorporates the
OMB definitions of metropolitan areas
based on the CBSA standards as
implemented with 2000 Census data
updated through December 1, 2009, but
makes adjustments to the definitions to
separate subparts of these areas where
FMRs or median incomes would
otherwise change significantly if the
new area definitions were used without
modification. In CBSAs where subareas
are established, it is HUD’s view for
programmatic purposes that the
geographic extent of the housing
markets are not yet the same as the
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geographic extent of the CBSAs, but
may become so in the future as the
social and economic integration of the
CBSA component areas increases.
Modifications to metropolitan CBSA
definitions are made according to a
formula as described below.
Metropolitan area CBSAs (referred to
as MSAs) may be modified to allow for
subarea FMRs within MSAs based on
the boundaries of old FMR areas (OFAs)
within the boundaries of new MSAs.
(OFAs are the FMR areas defined for the
FY 2005 FMRs. Collectively they
include 1999-definition MSAs/Primary
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs),
metro counties deleted from 1999definition MSAs/PMSAs by HUD for
FMR purposes, and counties and county
parts outside of 1999-definition MSAs/
PMSAs referred to as ‘‘formerly
nonmetropolitan counties.’’) Subareas of
MSAs are assigned their own FMRs
when the subarea 2000 Census Base
Rent differs by at least 5 percent from
(i.e., is at most 95 percent or at least 105
percent of) the MSA 2000 Census Base
Rent, or when the 2000 Census Median
Family Income for the subarea differs by
at least 5 percent from the MSA 2000
Census Median Family Income. MSA
subareas, and the remaining portions of
MSAs after subareas have been
determined, are referred to as HUD
Metropolitan FMR Areas (HMFAs) to
distinguish these areas from OMB’s
official definition of MSAs.
The specific counties and New
England towns and cities within each
state in MSAs and HMFAs are listed in
Schedule B.
2. Bedroom Size Adjustments
Schedule B shows the FMRs for zerobedroom through four-bedroom units.
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The Schedule B addendum shows Small
Area FMRs for all PHAs operating using
Small Area FMRs (please see section V
of this notice for a list of participating
PHAs). The FMRs for unit sizes larger
than four bedrooms are calculated 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. FMRs for single-room-occupancy
(SRO) units are 0.75 times the zerobedroom FMR.
3. Arrangement of FMR Areas and
Identification of Constituent Parts
a. The FMR areas in Schedule B are
listed alphabetically by metropolitan
FMR area and by nonmetropolitan
county within each state. The exception
FMRs for manufactured home spaces in
Schedule D are listed alphabetically by
state.
b. The constituent counties (and New
England towns and cities) included in
each metropolitan FMR area are listed
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. Two nonmetropolitan counties are
listed alphabetically on each line of the
non-metropolitan county listings.
d. The New England towns and cities
included in a nonmetropolitan county
are listed immediately following the
county name.
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Schedule D—FY 2014 Fair Market
Rents for Manufactured Home Spaces
in the Section 8 Housing Choice
Voucher Program
Space rent
($)
State
Area name
California ....................................
Orange County, CA HUD Metro FMR Area* ..................................................................................
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA* ................................................................................
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA HUD Metro FMR Area ...................................................................
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MSA ...................................................................................
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA MSA .....................................................................................................
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA MSA ...............................................................................................................
Boulder, CO MSA ...........................................................................................................................
St. Mary’s County ............................................................................................................................
Bend, OR MSA ...............................................................................................................................
Salem, OR MSA ..............................................................................................................................
Adams County ................................................................................................................................
Olympia, WA MSA ..........................................................................................................................
Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area .................................................................................
Logan County ..................................................................................................................................
McDowell County ............................................................................................................................
Mercer County .................................................................................................................................
Mingo County ..................................................................................................................................
Wyoming County .............................................................................................................................
Colorado .....................................
Maryland ....................................
Oregon .......................................
Pennsylvania ..............................
Washington ................................
West Virginia ..............................
818
532
674
819
738
594
479
500
355
506
568
603
664
453
453
453
453
453
* 50th percentile FMR areas.
[FR Doc. 2013–18792 Filed 8–2–13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4210–67–C
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCA920000.L13100000.PP0000.13X]
Notice of Intent to Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
Oil and Gas Leasing and Development
on Public Lands and Federal Mineral
Estate and Potentially Amend the
Hollister Resource Management Plan,
CA
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
intends to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and potential
resource management plan (RMP)
amendment to evaluate oil and gas
leasing and development on public
lands and Federal mineral estate in the
Hollister Field Office.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the EIS. Comments
on issues may be submitted in writing
until October 4, 2013. The date(s) and
location(s) of any scoping meetings will
be announced at least 15 days in
advance through local media,
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newspapers and the BLM Web site at:
www.blm.gov/ca/eis-og. In order to be
included in the Draft EIS, all comments
must be received prior to the close of
the 60-day scoping period or 15 days
after the last public meeting, whichever
is later. We will provide additional
opportunities for public participation
upon publication of the Draft EIS.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
related to the Oil and Gas Leasing and
Development EIS by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: www.blm.gov/ca/eis-og
• Email: BLM_CA_OGEIS@blm.gov
• Fax: 916–978–4388
• Mail: 2800 Cottage Way, Rm. W–
1623, Sacramento, CA 95825
Documents pertinent to this proposal
may be examined at the BLM California
State Office, 2800 Cottage Way,
Sacramento, CA 95825.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara
Acridge, Natural Resources Specialist,
telephone 916–978–4557; address 2800
Cottage Way, Rm. W–1623, Sacramento,
CA 95825; email
BLM_CA_OGEIS@blm.gov. You may
contact Ms. Acridge to have your name
added to our mailing list. Persons who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or question with the above individual.
You will receive a reply during normal
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The BLM
is initiating a planning process to
address oil and gas development on
public lands and Federal mineral estate
in the Hollister Field Office. This
Federal Register notice initiates a
scoping period to solicit public input on
that process. This is the first phase of a
process that may lead to the amendment
of the Hollister RMP (2006). The BLM
may also use this process to consider
amending RMPs for other field offices in
California with oil and gas leasing and
development (Bakersfield, Palm
Springs-South Coast, Mother Lode, and
Ukiah Field Offices).
The outcome of this effort to prepare
an oil and gas leasing and development
EIS may provide information for the
BLM to potentially amend the Hollister
RMP in order to establish additional
stipulations, conditions of approval,
best management practices, or terms and
conditions to further guide safe and
responsible lease development
practices. The EIS will also analyze
various current or reasonably
foreseeable well completion and
stimulation practices, including
hydraulic fracturing and the use of
horizontal drilling, in the Hollister Field
Office. The EIS will further analyze a
potential update to the reasonably
foreseeable development scenario.
In addition to this planning effort the
BLM is concurrently initiating a
separate peer-reviewed,
interdisciplinary assessment of the
current state of industry practices for
well completion and stimulation in
California. This assessment of well
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-5725-N-01]
Proposed Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher
Program, Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy Program and
Other Programs Fiscal Year 2014
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of Proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Fair Market Rents
(FMRs).
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SUMMARY: Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(USHA) requires the Secretary to publish FMRs periodically, but not
less than annually, adjusted to be effective on October 1 of each year.
The primary uses of FMRs are to determine payment standards for the
Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, to determine initial renewal
rents for some expiring project-based Section 8 contracts, to determine
initial rents for housing assistance payment contracts in the Moderate
Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program, and to serve as rent
ceilings in the HOME program. FMRs are also used in the calculation of
maximum award amounts for Continuum of Care grantees. Today's notice
provides proposed FY 2014 FMRs for all areas that reflect the estimated
40th and 50th percentile rent levels trended to April 1, 2014. The FY
2014 FMRs are based on 5-year, 2007-2011 data collected by the American
Community Survey (ACS). These data are updated by one-year ACS data for
areas where statistically valid one-year ACS data is available. The
Consumer Price Index (CPI) rent and utility indexes are used to further
update the data from 2011 to the end of 2012. HUD continues to use ACS
data in different ways according to the statistical reliability of rent
estimates for areas of different population sizes and counts of rental
units.
The proposed FY 2014 FMR areas are based on Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) metropolitan area definitions as updated through
December 1, 2009 and include HUD modifications that were first used in
the determination of FY 2006 FMR areas. The February 28, 2013 OMB Area
definition update has not been incorporated in the FMR process due to
the timing of the release and the availability of ACS data. HUD will
work toward incorporating these new area definitions into the Proposed
FY 2015 FMR calculations; however, this is dependent on the
availability of ACS data conforming to the new area definitions.
The proposed FY 2014 FMRs in this notice reflect several updates to
the methodology used to calculate FMRs. HUD has updated the information
used to calculate FMRs in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico FMRs are now based
on 2007-2011 Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) data (the PRCS is a
part of the ACS program). Moreover, HUD is using Consumer Price Index
data calculated specifically for Puerto Rico rather than using South
Census Region CPI data. Additionally, these FMRs continue to use the
annually updated trend factor calculation methodology. This trend
factor for the FY2014 FMRs is based on the change in national gross
rents from 2006 to 2011.
DATES: Comment Due Date: September 4, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
the proposed FMRs to 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'' section. There
are two methods for submitting public comments.
1. Submission of Comments by Mail. Comments may be submitted 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 mail often results in
delayed delivery. To ensure timely receipt of comments, HUD recommends
that comments submitted by mail be submitted at least two weeks in
advance of the public comment deadline.
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2. Electronic Submission of Comments. Interested persons may submit
comments electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
https://www.regulations.gov. HUD strongly encourages commenters to
submit comments electronically. Electronic submission of comments
allows the commenter maximum time to prepare and submit a comment,
ensures timely receipt by HUD, and enables HUD to make them immediately
available to the public. Comments submitted electronically through the
https://www.regulations.gov Web site can be viewed by other commenters
and interested members of the public. Commenters should follow
instructions provided on that site to submit comments electronically.
Note: To receive consideration as public comments, comments must
be submitted through one of the two methods specified above. Again,
all submissions must refer to the docket number and title of the
rule.
No Facsimile Comments. Facsimile (FAX) comments are not acceptable.
Public Inspection of Public Comments. All properly submitted
comments and communications submitted to HUD will be available for
public inspection and copying between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays at the
above address. Due to security measures at the HUD Headquarters
building, an advance appointment to review the public comments must be
scheduled by calling the Regulations Division at 202-708-3055 (this is
not a toll-free number). Individuals with speech or hearing impairments
may access this number through TTY by calling the Federal Relay Service
at 800-877-8339. Copies of all comments submitted are available for
inspection and downloading at https://www.regulations.gov.
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 Web site https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr.html. FMRs are listed at the 40th or 50th percentile in Schedule B.
For informational purposes, 40th percentile recent-mover rents for the
areas with 50th percentile FMRs will be provided in the HUD FY 2014 FMR
documentation system at https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14 and 50th percentile rents for all FMR areas
will be published at https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/50per.html
after publication of final FY 2014 FMRs.
Questions related to use of FMRs or voucher payment standards
should be directed to the respective local HUD program staff. Questions
on how to conduct FMR surveys or concerning further methodological
explanations may be addressed to Marie L. Lihn or Peter B. Kahn,
Economic and Market Analysis Division, Office of Economic Affairs,
Office of Policy Development and Research, telephone 202-708-0590.
Persons with hearing or speech impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free Federal Relay Service at 800-877-
8339. (Other than the HUD USER information line and TDD numbers,
telephone numbers are not toll-free.)
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 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). In general, the FMR for an area is the amount that would be
needed 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. In addition, all rents subsidized under the
HCV program must meet reasonable rent standards. HUD's regulations at
24 CFR 888.113 permit it to establish 50th percentile FMRs for certain
areas.
Electronic Data Availability: This Federal Register notice will be
available electronically from the HUD User page at https://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr.html. Federal Register notices also are
available electronically from https://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/,
the U.S. Government Printing Office Web site. Complete documentation of
the methodology and data used to compute each area's proposed FY 2014
FMRs is available at https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14. Proposed FY 2014 FMRs are available in a
variety of electronic formats at https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr.html. FMRs may be accessed in PDF format as well as in
Microsoft Excel. Small Area FMRs based on proposed FY 2014 Metropolitan
Area Rents are available in Microsoft Excel format at the same web
address. Please note that these Small Area FMRs are for reference only,
except where they are used by public housing agencies (PHAs)
participating in the Small Area FMR demonstration.
II. Procedures for the Development of FMRs
Section 8(c) of the USHA requires the Secretary of HUD to publish
FMRs periodically, but not less frequently than annually. Section 8(c)
states, in part, as follows:
Proposed fair market rentals for an area shall be published in
the Federal Register with reasonable time for public comment and
shall become effective upon the date of publication in final form in
the Federal Register. Each fair market rental in effect under this
subsection 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, of rents for existing or newly constructed rental dwelling
units, as the case may be, of various sizes and types in this
section.
HUD's regulations at 24 CFR part 888 provide that HUD will develop
proposed FMRs, publish them for public comment, provide a public
comment period of at least 30 days, analyze the comments, and publish
final FMRs. (See 24 CFR 888.115.)
In addition, HUD's regulations at 24 CFR 888.113 set out procedures
for HUD to assess whether areas are eligible for FMRs at the 50th
percentile. Minimally qualified areas \1\ are reviewed each year unless
not qualified to be reviewed. Areas are not qualified to be reviewed if
they have been made a 50th-percentile area within the last three years
or have lost 50th-percentile status for failure to de-concentrate
within the last three years.
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\1\ As defined in 24 CFR 888.113(c), a minimally qualified area
is an area with at least 100 census tracts where 70 percent or fewer
of the census tracts with at least 10 two bedroom rental units are
census tracts in which at least 30 percent of the two bedroom rental
units have gross rents at or below the two bedroom FMR set at the
40th percentile rent. This continues to be evaluated with 2000
Decennial Census information. Although the 5-year ACS tract level
data is available, HUD plans to implement new 50th percentile areas
in conjunction with the implementation of new OMB area definitions.
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In FY 2013 there were 20 areas using 50th-percentile FMRs. Of these
20 areas, only one area, the Bergen-Passaic, NJ HMFA, has completed
three years of program participation and is due for re-evaluation.
Voucher tenant concentration in the Bergen-Passaic, NJ HMFA has
decreased below what is required to be eligible for a 50th percentile
FMR and the area has ``graduated'' from the 50th percentile program.
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HMFA will be evaluated annually and may return to the program in the
future.
In summary, there will be 19 50th-percentile FMR areas in FY 2014.
These areas are indicated by an asterisk in Schedule B, where all FMRs
are listed by state. The following table lists the FMR areas along with
the year of their next evaluation.
FY 2014 50th-Percentile FMR Areas and Year of Next Reevaluation
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Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX MSA....................... 2015
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX HUD Metro FMR Area................ 2015
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT HUD Metro FMR Area 2015
Honolulu, HI MSA........................................... 2015
Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land, TX HUD Metro FMR Area.......... 2015
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA................................. 2015
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL MSA...................... 2015
Orange County, CA HUD Metro FMR Area....................... 2015
Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ MSA.............................. 2015
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA................... 2015
Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA HUD Metro FMR Area. 2015
Tucson, AZ MSA............................................. 2015
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA............. 2015
Baltimore-Towson, MD HUD Metro FMR Area.................... 2016
Fort Lauderdale, FL HUD Metro FMR Area..................... 2016
New Haven-Meriden, CT HUD Metro FMR Area................... 2016
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA............ 2016
Richmond, VA HUD Metro FMR Area............................ 2016
West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL HUD Metro FMR Area.......... 2016
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III. FMR Methodology
This section provides a brief overview of how the FY 2014 FMRs are
computed. For complete information on how FMR areas are determined, and
on how each area's FMRs are derived, see the online documentation at
https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14.
The proposed FY 2014 FMRs are based on OMB metropolitan area
definitions and standards that were first used in the FY 2006 FMRs.
OMB's changes to the area definitions through December 2009 are
incorporated as are non-metropolitan county changes published by the
Census Bureau through December 2011. The updated metropolitan area
definitions published by OMB on February 28, 2013 were published after
HUD contracted with the Census Bureau for the special tabulations of
ACS data necessary to calculate FMRs; therefore, the FY 2014 area
definitions are the same as those used in FY 2013. HUD anticipates that
the new OMB area definitions will be incorporated into the FY 2015 or
FY 2016 proposed FMRs, depending on the year that the Census Bureau
incorporates these area definitions in its ACS data tabulations.
A. Base Year Rents
The U.S. Census Bureau released standard tabulations of 5-year ACS
data collected between 2007 through 2011 in December of 2012. For FY
2014 FMRs, HUD used the 2007-2011 5-year ACS data to update the base
rents as was done in FY 2012 using 2005-2009 ACS data and again in FY
2013, using 2006-2010 data. HUD is also implementing new base rents for
Puerto Rico FMRs based on 2007-2011 Puerto Rico Community Survey data
collected through the American Community Survey program. HUD has not
implemented the Puerto Rico Community Survey data as base rents in
prior years due to concerns expressed about the adequacy of the survey
results; however, when HUD implements the new OMB metropolitan area
definitions, the Department will have no choice but to use the ACS data
for determining FMRs in Puerto Rico. Consequently, the Department is
implementing the new base rent data in FY 2014 rather than try to
implement both base rent data and new area definitions at the same
time.
FMRs are historically based on gross rents for recent movers (those
who have moved into their current residence in the last 24 months).
However, due to the way the 5-year ACS data are constructed, HUD
developed a new methodology for calculating recent-mover FMRs in FY
2012. As in FY 2012, all areas are assigned as a base rent the
estimated two-bedroom standard quality 5-year gross rent from the
ACS.\2\ Because HUD's regulations mandate that FMRs must be published
as recent mover gross rents, HUD continues to apply a recent mover
factor to the standard quality base rents assigned from the 5-year ACS
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The ACS is not used as the base rent for seven areas where the FY
2013 FMR was adjusted based on survey data conducted by the PHA (for
Hood River, OR) and by HUD (for Cheyenne, WY, Odessa, TX, Burlington,
VT, Mountrail County, ND, Ward County, ND, and Williams County, ND). In
addition, the ACS will not be the base rent for two additional areas
surveyed by HUD where the FY 2013 FMR was not adjusted (Flagstaff, AZ
and Rochester, MN) and for an additional PHA-surveyed area (Oakland,
CA). HUD has commissioned local area surveys in Danbury, CT, Barnes
County, ND, Lamoure County, ND, Ransom County, ND and Stutsman County,
ND and will replace ACS base rents with survey generated base rents if
the survey results provide evidence that the base rents require
adjustments.
B. Recent Mover Factor
Following the assignment of the standard quality two-bedroom rent
described above, HUD applies a recent mover factor to these rents. The
calculation of the recent mover factor for FY 2014 is similar to the
methodology used in FY 2013, with the only difference being the use of
updated ACS data. As described below, HUD calculates a similar
percentage increase as the FY 2013 factor using data from the smallest
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In general, HUD uses the 1 year ACS-based two-bedroom recent mover
gross rent estimate from the smallest geographic area encompassing the
FMR area for which the estimate is statistically reliable to calculate
the recent mover factor. HUD calculates some areas' recent mover
factors using data collected just for the FMR area. Other areas' recent
mover factors are based on larger geographic areas. For metropolitan
areas that are sub-areas of larger metropolitan areas, the order is
subarea, metropolitan area, state metropolitan area, and state.
Metropolitan areas that are not divided follow a similar path from FMR
area, to state metropolitan areas, to state. In nonmetropolitan areas
the recent mover factor is based on the FMR area, the state
nonmetropolitan area, or if that is not available, on the basis of the
whole state. The recent mover factor is calculated as the percentage
change between the 5-year 2007-2011 standard quality two-bedroom gross
rent and the 1 year 2011 recent mover two-bedroom gross rent for the
recent mover factor area. Recent mover factors are not allowed 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,
the recent mover factor is set to 1. The process for calculating each
area's recent mover factor is detailed in the FY 2014 Proposed FMR
documentation system available at: https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14.
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Northern Marianas and American Samoa) or the U.S. Virgin Islands. As
part of the 2010 Decennial Census, the Census Bureau conducted a
``long-form'' sample surveys for these areas. The results gathered
by this long form survey were expected to be available late in 2012;
however, these data have not yet become available. Therefore, HUD
uses the national change in gross rents, measured between 2010 and
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C. Updates From 2011 to 2012
The ACS-based ``as of'' 2011 rent is updated through the end of
2012 using the annual change in CPI from 2011 to 2012. As in previous
years, HUD uses Local CPI data coupled with Consumer Expenditure Survey
(CEX) data for FMR areas with at least 75 percent of their population
within Class A metropolitan areas covered by local CPI data. HUD uses
Census region CPI data for FMR areas in Class B and C size metropolitan
areas and nonmetropolitan areas without local CPI update factors.
Additionally, HUD is using CPI data collected locally in Puerto Rico as
the basis for CPI adjustments from 2011 to 2012 for all Puerto Rico FMR
areas. Following the application of the appropriate CPI update factor,
HUD converts the ``as of'' 2012 CPI adjusted rents to ``as of''
December 2012 rents by multiplying each rent by the national December
2012 CPI divided by the national annual 2012 CPI value. HUD does this
in order to apply an exact amount of the annual trend factor to place
the FY 2014 FMRs as of the mid-point of the 2014 fiscal year.
D. Trend From 2012 to 2014
As in FY 2013, HUD continues to calculate the trend factor as the
annualized change in median gross rents as measured across the most
recent 5 years of available 1 year ACS data. The national median gross
rent in 2006 was $763 and $871 in 2011. The overall change between 2006
and 2011 is 14.15 percent and the annualized change is 2.68 percent.
Over a 15-month time period, the effective trend factor is 3.365
percent.
E. Bedroom Rent Adjustments
HUD calculates the primary FMR estimates for two-bedroom units.
This is generally the most common sized rental unit and, therefore, the
most reliable to survey and analyze. Formerly, after each Decennial
Census, HUD calculated rent relationships between two-bedroom units and
other unit sizes and used them to set FMRs for other units. HUD did
this because it is much easier to update two-bedroom estimates and to
use pre-established cost relationships with other bedroom sizes than it
is to develop independent FMR estimates for each bedroom size. When
calculating FY 2013 FMRs, HUD updated the bedroom ratio adjustment
factors using 2006-2010 5-year ACS data using similar methodology to
what was implemented when calculating bedroom ratios using 2000 Census
data to establish rent ratios. The bedroom ratios used in the
calculation of FY 2014 FMRs were updated this year using the 2006-2010
ACS data in conjunction with the update of base rents to ACS based
data. HUD will continue to use the same bedroom ratios until the 5-year
ACS from 2011-2015 is released, probably in time for the FY 2018 FMRs.
HUD established bedroom interval ranges based on an analysis of the
range of such intervals for all areas with large enough samples to
permit accurate bedroom ratio determinations. These ranges are:
Efficiency FMRs are constrained to fall between 0.59 and 0.81 of the
two-bedroom FMR; one-bedroom FMRs must be between 0.74 and 0.84 of the
two-bedroom FMR; three-bedroom FMRs must be between 1.15 and 1.36 of
the two-bedroom FMR; and four-bedroom FMRs must be between 1.24 and
1.64 of the two-bedroom FMR. (The maximums for the three-bedroom and
four-bedroom FMRs are irrespective of the adjustments discussed in the
next paragraph.) HUD adjusts bedroom rents for a given FMR area if the
differentials between bedroom-size FMRs were inconsistent with normally
observed patterns (i.e., efficiency rents are not allowed to be higher
than one-bedroom rents and four-bedroom rents are not allowed to be
lower than three-bedroom rents). The bedroom ratios for Puerto Rico
follow these constraints.
HUD further adjusts the rents for three-bedroom and larger units to
reflect HUD's policy to set higher rents for these units than would
result from using unadjusted market rents. 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. The FMRs for unit sizes larger than four
bedrooms are calculated 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. FMRs for single-room occupancy units
are 0.75 times the zero-bedroom (efficiency) FMR.
For low-population, nonmetropolitan counties with small or
statistically insignificant 2006-2010 5-year ACS recent-mover rents,
HUD uses state non-metropolitan data to determine bedroom ratios for
each bedroom size. HUD made this adjustment to protect against
unrealistically high or low FMRs due to insufficient sample sizes.
IV. Manufactured Home Space Surveys
The FMR used to establish payment standard amounts for the rental
of manufactured home spaces in the HCV program is 40 percent of the FMR
for a two-bedroom unit. HUD will consider modification of the
manufactured home space FMRs where public comments present
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showing the 40th-percentile manufactured home space rent (including the
cost of utilities) for the entire FMR area.
All approved exceptions to these rents that were in effect in FY
2013 were updated to FY 2014 using the same data used to estimate the
HCV program FMRs. If the result of this computation was higher than 40
percent of the new two-bedroom rent, the exception remains and is
listed in Schedule D. The FMR area definitions used for the rental of
manufactured home spaces are the same as the area definitions used for
the other FMRs.
V. Small Area Fair Market Rents
Public housing authorities in the Dallas, TX HMFA, along with the
Housing Authority of the County of Cook (IL), the City of Long Beach
(CA) Housing Authority, the Chattanooga, TN Housing Authority, the Town
of Mamaroneck (NY) Housing Authority, and the Laredo, TX Housing
Authority continue to be the only PHAs managing their voucher programs
using Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs). These FMRs are listed in
the Schedule B addendum. The department is working to secure more
housing authority participants in its Small Area FMR Demonstration
program.
SAFMRs are calculated using a rent ratio determined by dividing the
median gross rent across all bedrooms for the small area (a ZIP code)
by the similar median gross rent for the metropolitan area of the ZIP
code. This rent ratio is multiplied by the current two- bedroom rent
for the entire metropolitan area containing the small area to generate
the current year two-bedroom rent for the small area. In small areas
where the median gross rent is not statistically reliable, HUD
substitutes the median gross rent for the county containing the ZIP
code in the numerator of the rent ratio calculation. For proposed FY
2014 SAFMRs, HUD continues to use the rent ratios developed in
conjunction with the calculation of FY 2013 FMRs based on 2006-2010 5-
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calculation methodology used for Small Area Fair Market Rents.
Please see our Federal Register notice of April 20, 2011 (76 FR
22125) for more information regarding the calculation methodology.
Also, HUD's Proposed FY 2014 FMR documentation system available at
(https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/docsys.html&data=fmr14) contains detailed calculations for each ZIP
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VI. Request for Public Comments
HUD seeks public comments on the methodology used to calculate FY
2014 Proposed FMRs and the FMR levels for specific areas. Due to its
current funding levels, HUD no longer has sufficient resources to
conduct local surveys of rents to address comments filed regarding the
FMR levels for specific areas. Commenters submitting comments on FMR
levels must include sufficient information (including local data and a
full description of the rental housing survey methodology used or a
description of the methodology intended to be used to collect the
necessary data) to justify any proposed changes.
For small metropolitan areas without one-year ACS data and
nonmetropolitan counties, HUD has developed a methodology using mail
surveys that is discussed on the bottom of the FMR Web page: https://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/fmr.html. This methodology allows for
the collection of as few as 100 one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-
bedroom recent mover (tenants that moved in last 24 months) units.
While HUD has not developed a specific methodology for mail surveys
in areas with one-year ACS data, HUD would apply the standard
established for Random-Digit Dialing (RDD) telephone rent surveys of
200 one-bedroom and two-bedroom recent mover units and the RDD
confidence interval determination of the survey statistical
significance of data from large-market mail surveys. Areas with
statistically reliable 1 year ACS data are not considered to be good
candidates for local surveys due to the size and completeness of the
ACS process.
Other survey methodologies are acceptable in providing data to
support comments if the survey methodology can provide statistically
reliable, unbiased estimates of the gross rent. 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 nonmetropolitan areas may, in certain circumstances,
conduct surveys of groups of counties. HUD must approve all county-
grouped surveys in advance. PHAs are cautioned 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, PHAs are advised that counties where FMRs are based on the
combined rents in the cluster of FMR areas will not have their FMRs
revised 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 2007-2011 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.
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 to relax normal sample size requirements.
HUD will consider increasing manufactured home space FMRs where
public comment demonstrates that 40 percent of the two-bedroom FMR is
not adequate. In order to be accepted as a basis for revising the
manufactured home space FMRs, comments must include a pad rental survey
of the mobile home parks in the area, identify the utilities included
in each park's rental fee, and provide a copy of the applicable public
housing authority's utility schedule.
As stated earlier in this Notice, HUD is required to use the most
recent data available when calculating FMRs. Therefore, in order to re-
evaluate an area's FMR, HUD requires more current rental market data
than the 2011 ACS. HUD encourages a PHA or other interested party that
believes the FMR in their area is incorrect to file a comment even if
they do not have the resources to provide market-wide rental data. In
these instances, HUD will use the comments, should survey funding be
restored, when determining the areas HUD will select for HUD-funded
local area rent surveys.
VII. Environmental Impact
This Notice involves the establishment of fair market rent
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 proposed to be
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amended as shown in the Appendix to this notice:
Dated: July 30, 2013.
Jean Lin Pao,
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
Fair Market Rents for the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Schedules B and D--General Explanatory Notes
1. Geographic Coverage
a. Metropolitan Areas--Most FMRs are market-wide rent estimates
that are intended to provide housing opportunities throughout the
geographic area in which rental-housing units are in direct
competition. HUD is using the metropolitan Core-Based Statistical Areas
(CBSAs), which are made up of one or more counties, as defined by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with some modifications. HUD is
generally assigning separate FMRs to the component counties of CBSA
Micropolitan Areas.
b. Modifications to OMB Definitions--Following OMB guidance, the
estimation procedure for the FY 2014 proposed FMRs incorporates the OMB
definitions of metropolitan areas based on the CBSA standards as
implemented with 2000 Census data updated through December 1, 2009, but
makes adjustments to the definitions to separate subparts of these
areas where FMRs or median incomes would otherwise change significantly
if the new area definitions were used without modification. In CBSAs
where subareas are established, it is HUD's view for programmatic
purposes that the geographic extent of the housing markets are not yet
the same as the geographic extent of the CBSAs, but may become so in
the future as the social and economic integration of the CBSA component
areas increases. Modifications to metropolitan CBSA definitions are
made according to a formula as described below.
Metropolitan area CBSAs (referred to as MSAs) may be modified to
allow for subarea FMRs within MSAs based on the boundaries of old FMR
areas (OFAs) within the boundaries of new MSAs. (OFAs are the FMR areas
defined for the FY 2005 FMRs. Collectively they include 1999-definition
MSAs/Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs), metro counties
deleted from 1999-definition MSAs/PMSAs by HUD for FMR purposes, and
counties and county parts outside of 1999-definition MSAs/PMSAs
referred to as ``formerly nonmetropolitan counties.'') Subareas of MSAs
are assigned their own FMRs when the subarea 2000 Census Base Rent
differs by at least 5 percent from (i.e., is at most 95 percent or at
least 105 percent of) the MSA 2000 Census Base Rent, or when the 2000
Census Median Family Income for the subarea differs by at least 5
percent from the MSA 2000 Census Median Family Income. MSA subareas,
and the remaining portions of MSAs after subareas have been determined,
are referred to as HUD Metropolitan FMR Areas (HMFAs) to distinguish
these areas from OMB's official definition of MSAs.
The specific counties and New England towns and cities within each
state in MSAs and HMFAs are listed in Schedule B.
2. Bedroom Size Adjustments
Schedule B shows the FMRs for zero-bedroom through four-bedroom
units. The Schedule B addendum shows Small Area FMRs for all PHAs
operating using Small Area FMRs (please see section V of this notice
for a list of participating PHAs). The FMRs for unit sizes larger than
four bedrooms are calculated 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. FMRs for single-room-occupancy
(SRO) units are 0.75 times the zero-bedroom FMR.
3. Arrangement of FMR Areas and Identification of Constituent Parts
a. The FMR areas in Schedule B are listed alphabetically by
metropolitan FMR area and by nonmetropolitan county within each state.
The exception FMRs for manufactured home spaces in Schedule D are
listed alphabetically by state.
b. The constituent counties (and New England towns and cities)
included in each metropolitan FMR area are listed 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. Two nonmetropolitan counties are listed alphabetically on each
line of the non-metropolitan county listings.
d. The New England towns and cities included in a nonmetropolitan
county are listed immediately following the county name.
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Schedule D--FY 2014 Fair Market Rents for Manufactured Home Spaces in
the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
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Space rent
State Area name ($)
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California...................................... Orange County, CA HUD Metro FMR Area*............ 818
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA*........ 532
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA HUD Metro FMR Area.... 674
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MSA............ 819
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA MSA...................... 738
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA MSA........................ 594
Colorado........................................ Boulder, CO MSA.................................. 479
Maryland........................................ St. Mary's County................................ 500
Oregon.......................................... Bend, OR MSA..................................... 355
Salem, OR MSA.................................... 506
Pennsylvania.................................... Adams County..................................... 568
Washington...................................... Olympia, WA MSA.................................. 603
Seattle-Bellevue, WA HUD Metro FMR Area.......... 664
West Virginia................................... Logan County..................................... 453
McDowell County.................................. 453
Mercer County.................................... 453
Mingo County..................................... 453
Wyoming County................................... 453
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* 50th percentile FMR areas.
[FR Doc. 2013-18792 Filed 8-2-13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4210-67-C
