Payment Standard & Utility Allowances
Effective: 1/1/2023
Published HUD Fair Market Rent
- 0 Bedroom $623
- 1 Bedroom $627
- 2 Bedroom $777
- 3 Bedroom $1,077
- 4 Bedroom $1,324
Payment Standards
- 0 Bedroom $685
- 1 Bedroom $689
- 2 Bedroom $854
- 3 Bedroom $1,184
- 4 Bedroom $1,456
Utility Allowances
Effective: 10/1/2023
HUD publishes Proposed Fair Market Rents in September and finalizes them in October. The Housing Authority is required to implement these rents in a method called Payment Standards. Each PHA can set their payment standards from 90% to 110% of the Fair Market Rents. The rental market in each Housing Authority's local jurisdiction governs this process. WHA recommends that the Payment Standard be set at 100% of Fair Market Rent.
The FMRs for unit sizes larger than four bedrooms are calculated by adding 15 percent to the four-bedroom FMR, for each extra bedroom. For example, the FMR for a five-bedroom unit is 1.15 times the four-bedroom FMR, and the FMR for a six-bedroom unit is 1.30 times the four-bedroom FMR.