Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 18/09/1995

Fair Market Rents for Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments ProgramFiscal Year 1996

Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 requires the Secretary to publish FMRs annually to be effective on October 1 of each year. FMRs are used for the Section 8 Rental Certificate program (including space rentals by owners of manufactured homes under that program); the Moderate Rehabilitation Single Room Occupancy program; housing assisted under the Loan Management and Property Disposition programs; payment standards for the Rental Voucher program; and any other programs whose regulations specify their use. On March 2, 1995 (60 FR 11870), HUD published a proposed rule to revise 24 CFR part 888 to change the FMR rent standard from the 45th to 40th percentile rent level. That change was published in the Federal Register on August 15, 1995 (60 FR 42222), and made effective on September 14, 1995. HUD also published proposed FY 1996 FMRs on August 15, 1995 (60 FR 42290). Because of the delay in publishing the proposed FMRs, the public comment period will extend beyond the October 1 statutory date for publishing final FMRs. Therefore, there will be two notices of final FMRs. Today's document provides final FY 1996 FMRs at the level of the proposed FMRs, except for the