# Fair Market Rents for the Section 8 Housing Assistance Payments ProgramFiscal Year 1997
> **US Department of Housing and Urban Development** · Notice of final Fiscal Year (FY) 1997 Fair Market Rents (FMRs). · Published 1996-09-20 · Effective 1996-10-01 · 61 FR 49576
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-24068
- **Category:** hud-housing-vouchers
- **Agency:** US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 49576
- **CFR reference:** 24 CFR 888
- **Publication date:** 1996-09-20
- **Effective date:** 1996-10-01
- **Docket:** Docket No. FR-4134-N-01
## Abstract

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. Today's notice provides final FY 1997 FMRs for all areas. It includes increased FMRs for 21 areas as a result of HUD-contracted Random Digit Dialing (RDD) surveys conducted through August, 1996. It also includes increased FMRs in 8 areas that submitted public comments, plus 4 areas that submitted manufactured home space rent comments. Today's notice also makes effective FMR reductions for 9 areas that were proposed for reduction in the May 8, 1996 notice (61 FR 20982), based on the results of recent RDD and American Housing Surveys (AHSs).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/09/20/96-24068/fair-market-rents-for-the-section-8-housing-assistance-payments-programfiscal-year-1997)
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