July 18, 2023
Regulations Division Office of General Counsel
Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street SW, Room 10276
Washington, DC 20410–0001
Re: Proposed Changes to the Methodology Used for Calculating Fair Market Rents, Docket No. FR-6401-N-01
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to express support for proposed changes to methods used for computing fair market rents. PRRAC is a civil rights law and policy organization which focuses much of its reform agenda on improvements to the Housing Choice Voucher program to ensure that all families have fair access to higher-opportunity and resource-rich neighborhoods. Access to these lower-poverty areas requires that payment standards reflect current market conditions in these higher-rent areas. PRRAC has long supported necessary policy reforms, such as Small Area Fair Market Rents, that see to it that payment standards better correspond to rent levels in higher opportunity parts of metro areas.
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