NAHMA Rural Update: USDA releases results of 2016 Occupancy Report

January 11, 2017

Attached, please find USDA-RD’s year-end results of the 2016 Multifamily Housing Annual Fair Housing Occupancy Report. The report, which is based on data from September 2016 and compares information from years 2014 to 2016, includes both Rural Rental Housing (RHH) Section 515 and Farm Labor Housing (FLH) Section 514 properties.

Please find highlights of the year’s data online here. You can also view Attachment 1 and Attachment 2, which break down the data by state, race/ethnicity, age, disability, income, and more.

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