APARTMENT ADVOCATE
NATIONAL APARTMENT ASSOCIATION /
NATIONAL MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COUNCIL
Small Area Fair Market
Rents to Take Effect Due to
Injunction
A
Federal judge has ordered HUD to implement the Small Area HUD published a request for public comments on the
previously been suspended for two years on Tuesday, January SAFMRs for the 23 jurisdictions can be found here:
Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs) in jurisdictions that had
1. The injunction was issued as a result of a lawsuit by the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund and two voucher holders (Open
Communities Alliance, et al. v. Ben S. Carson, Sr.). The judge in the
case argued that HUD did not show specific reasons as to why the rule’s
implementation was delayed, and thus violated the rules within the final
SAFMR regulation as to why a SAFMR could be suspended in a given
jurisdiction.
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two-year suspension in mid-December; comments are due January 11.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/smallarea/index.html#2018.
As a reminder, SAFMRs are set at the zip code level, so members who
operate in some zip codes will see increases in the voucher amount, while
others will see decreases. NAA and NMHC have long held that a zip code
does not constitute a real estate market, and HUD should explore
alternative geographies.
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