Editorial Process
PlainRent publishes under one organizational byline rather than personal ones. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Fair Market Rents span more than 3,150 counties and 400 metro areas as of FY2026, and the publisher owns the methodology, data framing, and corrections process behind every figure published here.
Download the compiled state FMR extract: plainrent-state-fmr-homeownership.csv (HUD FMR state extract).
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PlainRent is an independent data-journalism portal that focuses on fair-market-rent data from HUD, providing in-depth analyses of rent trends and housing markets. The team draws on public government data to create informative content compiled by our editorial process from official source data. The team does not accept payment from entities it covers to ensure unbiased reporting.
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PlainRent is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Fair Market Rents cover more than 3,150 counties and 400 metro areas for FY2026. Our editorial standards, sourcing, and the way we handle corrections are described on our about, methodology, and editorial & corrections pages.