MODULE DEMO · PAYMENT STANDARD STUDIO

What would a payment standard change actually buy?

Pick a ZIP, a bedroom size and a proposed percent of the HUD Small Area FMR — see the dollar standard it implies and how many real advertised asking rents observed in that ZIP would fall at or under it. Move the slider; the numbers recompute against the same live observations.

SAFMRs are published for studio through 4-bedroom units; larger sizes have no ZIP-level SAFMR, so this studio stops at 4BR rather than extrapolating.

This is a screening model, not a payment standard adoption. Under 24 CFR 982.503 your authority adopts the exact standard, ordinarily inside the 90%–110% basic range of the applicable FMR/SAFMR — going outside that range requires HUD approval (or applicable waiver/MTW authority), so the slider stays inside it. The share shown counts advertised asking rents observed on public listings in that ZIP (market-rate pool, source-linked) at or under the proposed standard — a leaseable-share proxy, not a success-rate prediction: asking rents are not leased rents, utility allowances are not modeled, and unit quality, size and amenities are not held constant. Every figure is computed from exactly the observations listed. If a ZIP is not in the SAFMR file, or no observations exist, we say so instead of guessing.