{
  "prepared": "2026-09-28",
  "publisher": "HousingStabilityIQ",
  "measure": "HUD two-bedroom Fair Market Rent, dollars per month",
  "scope": "Fourteen selected HUD FMR areas containing Georgia counties; not a statewide ranking or representative sample",
  "method": "Transcribed from HUD schedules; percent change = (FY2027 / FY2026 - 1) * 100. Display rounded to one decimal.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2026/FY2026_FMR_Schedule.pdf",
      "pdf_pages": "1, 8\u20139, 42"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmr2027/FY2027_FMR_Schedule.pdf",
      "pdf_pages": "1, 8, 42"
    }
  ],
  "notice": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-01/pdf/2026-17891.pdf",
  "revision_check": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/21/2026-07741/fair-market-rents-for-the-housing-choice-voucher-program-moderate-rehabilitation-single-room",
  "caveats": [
    "FY2027 scheduled effective October 1, 2026, subject to valid local reevaluation requests; recheck before sending after that date.",
    "FMR is a HUD gross-rent benchmark, not current advertised rent or an individual household payment.",
    "Broad FMR areas, not city-only observations or ZIP-level Small Area FMRs.",
    "This comparison does not update HousingStabilityIQ annual scores.",
    "The April 21, 2026 revision notice lists no Georgia areas or either selected cross-state area.",
    "Augusta includes Aiken and Edgefield counties in South Carolina; Columbus includes Russell County in Alabama. Other listed counties are in Georgia."
  ],
  "areas": [
    {
      "hud_area": "Albany, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Albany",
      "counties": [
        "Dougherty",
        "Lee",
        "Terrell",
        "Worth"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1129,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1103,
      "change_usd_month": -26,
      "change_percent": -2.3029
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Athens-Clarke County, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Athens\u2013Clarke County",
      "counties": [
        "Clarke",
        "Madison",
        "Oconee",
        "Oglethorpe"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1331,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1285,
      "change_usd_month": -46,
      "change_percent": -3.456
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Atlanta\u2013Sandy Springs\u2013Roswell",
      "counties": [
        "Barrow",
        "Bartow",
        "Carroll",
        "Cherokee",
        "Clayton",
        "Cobb",
        "Coweta",
        "Dawson",
        "DeKalb",
        "Douglas",
        "Fayette",
        "Forsyth",
        "Fulton",
        "Gwinnett",
        "Heard",
        "Henry",
        "Jasper",
        "Newton",
        "Paulding",
        "Pickens",
        "Pike",
        "Rockdale",
        "Spalding",
        "Walton"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1820,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1762,
      "change_usd_month": -58,
      "change_percent": -3.1868
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Augusta\u2013Richmond County (GA\u2013SC)",
      "counties": [
        "Burke (GA)",
        "Columbia (GA)",
        "McDuffie (GA)",
        "Richmond (GA)",
        "Aiken (SC)",
        "Edgefield (SC)"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1261,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1329,
      "change_usd_month": 68,
      "change_percent": 5.3925
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Brunswick-St. Simons, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Brunswick\u2013St. Simons",
      "counties": [
        "Brantley",
        "Glynn",
        "McIntosh"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1293,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1378,
      "change_usd_month": 85,
      "change_percent": 6.5739
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Columbus, GA-AL HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Columbus (GA\u2013AL)",
      "counties": [
        "Chattahoochee (GA)",
        "Harris (GA)",
        "Marion (GA)",
        "Muscogee (GA)",
        "Russell (AL)"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1088,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1212,
      "change_usd_month": 124,
      "change_percent": 11.3971
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Dalton, GA HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Dalton",
      "counties": [
        "Whitfield"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1121,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1127,
      "change_usd_month": 6,
      "change_percent": 0.5352
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Gainesville, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Gainesville",
      "counties": [
        "Hall"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1514,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1543,
      "change_usd_month": 29,
      "change_percent": 1.9155
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Hinesville, GA HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Hinesville",
      "counties": [
        "Liberty"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1406,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1396,
      "change_usd_month": -10,
      "change_percent": -0.7112
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Macon-Bibb County, GA HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Macon\u2013Bibb County",
      "counties": [
        "Bibb",
        "Crawford",
        "Jones",
        "Twiggs"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1307,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1309,
      "change_usd_month": 2,
      "change_percent": 0.153
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Rome, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Rome",
      "counties": [
        "Floyd"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1192,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1204,
      "change_usd_month": 12,
      "change_percent": 1.0067
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Savannah, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Savannah",
      "counties": [
        "Bryan",
        "Chatham",
        "Effingham"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1680,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1679,
      "change_usd_month": -1,
      "change_percent": -0.0595
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Valdosta, GA MSA",
      "chart_label": "Valdosta",
      "counties": [
        "Brooks",
        "Echols",
        "Lanier",
        "Lowndes"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1192,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1179,
      "change_usd_month": -13,
      "change_percent": -1.0906
    },
    {
      "hud_area": "Warner Robins, GA HMFA",
      "chart_label": "Warner Robins",
      "counties": [
        "Houston"
      ],
      "fy2026_usd_month": 1362,
      "fy2027_usd_month": 1396,
      "change_usd_month": 34,
      "change_percent": 2.4963
    }
  ]
}