This file makes available the 50th percentile rents for fiscal year
2002 for all Fair Market Rent areas. 

THESE ARE NOT FAIR MARKET RENTS.  

Under certain conditions, as set forth in the Interim Rule (Federal
Register dated October 2, 2000), these 50th percentile rents can be 
used to set success rate payment standards. 

There is one record per metropolitan area or nonmetropolitan
county.  It is sorted by state, then by metropolitan area and 
nonmetropolitan county.

It is in dBase (dbf) format for easy use by most data
management programs, including spreadsheets.  It includes
the following fields:

ST		State abbreviation

ID_AGIS2	Master identifier: 

		MSAmmmm for metropolitan areas

		CNTYssccc for nonmetropolitan counties,
                where ss is the State numeric code and 
                ccc is the county code.

AreaName	Area name

FMR0BR	0 bedroom FMR, 2000 Final
FMR1BR	1    "     "    "     "
FMR2BR	2    "     "    "     "
FMR3BR	3    "     "    "     "
FMR4BR	4    "     "    "     "

The file has been compressed into a self-executable ZIP
file. To un-compress, type FY2002_50th <Return> at the DOS
prompt, or double-click on the file name if in Windows.

Rents for units above 4 bedrooms are found by adding 15 percent to
the 4 bedroom rent for each additional bedroom.  The rent for Single
Room Occupancy is 75 percent of the 0 bedroom rent.

The rents for all component counties of a metropolitan Fair Market 
Rent Area ("MSA") are the same, and are therefore not listed
separately.

Fair Market Rent areas incorporate the Office of Management and Budget's
most current definitions of metropolitan areas, with exception to 
several large metropolitan areas whose revised OMB metropolitan area
definitions were determined by HUD to be larger than the housing market
areas as listed below:

Chicago, IL - Dekalb, Grundy, and Kendall Counties
Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN - Brown County, OH; Gallatin, Grant and
   Pendleton Counties in KY; and Ohio County, IN
Dallas, TX - Henderson County
Flagstaff, AZ-UT -= Kane County, UT
New Orleans, LA - St. James Parish
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV - Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in WV; 
   and Clarke, Culpeper, King George and Warren Counties in VA


For further information, please consult Lynn Rodgers via e-mail at
Lynn_a._Rodgers@HUD.GOV or by phoning (202) 708-0590.


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