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Brian Schatz: “This fair market rent (FMR), the level that is set in terms of FMR, is just totally unrealistic.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2016
This fair market rent (FMR), the level that is set in terms of FMR, is just totally unrealistic.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Schatz criticizes the unrealistic fair market rent set by HUD in Hawaii.

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