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Questions about a figure on this site, a correction, or an idea for coverage — send us a message with the form below. The most useful messages name the exact page and the exact value in question: "the 2-bedroom FMR on the Harris County page says $1,497 but HUD's lookup shows…" gets a fast, precise answer, while "your rents are wrong" leaves us guessing. We read everything that arrives through this form.
Data corrections
Every rent figure here is a published HUD or Census value, but transcription can err and HUD occasionally revises a schedule mid-year. If you believe a number is wrong, tell us the page, the figure, and the source you checked it against. Confirmed errors are fixed promptly and the correction is noted on the page itself. If HUD publishes a revised FY2027 figure for an area after we have checked our pages, we update on the next data pass and say so here in the page's source note.
What we can and cannot help with
We can explain how a figure was produced, where it came from, and how it compares. We cannot help you find or apply for an apartment, qualify for a voucher, or dispute a rent with a landlord — we are a data publication, not a housing agency. For voucher and housing-assistance questions, your local public housing agency is the right contact; HUD lists agencies and counseling resources at hud.gov. For a quick sense of what your income supports in the counties we cover in depth, the affordability calculator is the fastest starting point on this site.
Response times and privacy
We aim to answer within two business days, and correction requests jump the queue. The name and email you send are used only to reply to you; we do not sell contact details or add form senders to any mailing list. The details are in our privacy policy. If the form fails for any reason, the same guidance applies: include the page address and the figure in question in whatever channel you use to reach us.
A note for housing agencies, researchers, and journalists
If you work with this data professionally, you are welcome to cite our pages — a link back is appreciated but not required. Do keep in mind what the underlying numbers are: the Fair Market Rents and ACS medians themselves are U.S. government publications in the public domain, and for program decisions you should always work from HUD's and the Census Bureau's own files rather than from any secondary presentation, ours included. If you need the figure for a county we do not cover in depth, every state page carries the complete county table for its state, and HUD's lookup tool at huduser.gov covers every rent area in the country, including the territories. Questions about how we derived a comparison — a percentage, a ranking, an income at the 30% rule — are exactly the kind of message this form is for, and we are glad to show the arithmetic.
Before you write
Three quick checks solve most questions on the spot. If a rent looks high or low for a county, confirm which HUD rent area the county sits in — metropolitan counties share one figure across the whole housing market, which is why neighboring counties so often match. If you are comparing our figure with a listing site, remember that ours is a gross rent including utilities, set near the 40th percentile, while a listing is one landlord's asking price. And if you are checking a voucher question, the payment standard your housing agency actually set — somewhere between 90% and 110% of the FMR — is the operative number, not the FMR alone.