🏠HUD Extends Comment Period for Fair Market Rents FY 2026
The Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a notice in the Federal Register of August 22, 2025 (HUD's FY26 notice), that describes the methods used to calculate the FY 2026 FMRs and lists the procedures for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to request reevaluations of their FMRs as required by the Housing Opportunity Through Modernization Act of 2016 (HOTMA). HUD's annual notices typically permit public comment through October 1 of a given year, even if they are published earlier than thirty days prior to that date. HUD's FY26 notice provided an opportunity for public comment but only through September 22, 2025. This notice corrects this error and extends the public comment period through October 1, 2025. This notice also corrects HUD's omission of the Urban Honolulu, HI Metropolitan Statistical Area (Urban Honolulu MSA) from the list of areas and counties in HUD's FY26 notice that have FMRs based on local ad hoc surveys collected prior to 2024, and provides that HUD has updated and corrected the values for FMRs for the Urban Honolulu MSA on HUD's Fair Market Rent Documentation System web page.
Learn More🏘️HUD's 60-Day Notice on Information Collection for Housing Inspections
HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is requesting comment from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
Learn More🏠Fair Market Rents for FY 2026
Section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (USHA), as amended by the Housing Opportunity 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 methods used to calculate the FY 2026 FMRs and lists the procedures for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) to request reevaluations of their FMRs as required by HOTMA.
Learn More🏠Section 8 Housing Assistance Program FY 2025 Funding Update
This notice establishes Renewal Funding Inflation Factors (RFIFs) to adjust Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 renewal funding for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program of each public housing agency (PHA), as required by the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. The notice apportions the expected percent change in national Per Unit Cost (PUC) for the HCV program, 4.71 percent, to each PHA based on the change in Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for their operating area to produce the FY 2025 RFIFs. HUD has refined its FY 2025 methodology to adopt a national PUC forecast by changing the gross rent component in a manner that empirically weights projected recent mover rents as measured by the FMR with an independent forecast of all-mover rents as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Learn More🏢HUD 60-Day Notice on Executive Compensation Information Collection
HUD is seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the information collection described below. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), HUD is requesting comments from all interested parties on the proposed collection of information. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment.
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