[nickonline]

What's FMR?

"Housing wage for two bedroom FMR"

Also what does this all mean? What percentage of their income is this representing to afford this house?

The article was surprisingly short of this information even though it was 4 pages long.

[jacobolus]

The linked PDF has a detailed explanation of their definitions in the appendix at the back: http://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/oor/OOR2014.pdf

The number for “fair market rent” in each market is provided by the US Dept of Housing and Urban Development, and:

> Out of Reach is consistent with federal housing policy in the assumption that no more than 30% of a household’s gross income should be consumed by gross housing costs. Spending more than 30% of income on housing is considered “unaffordable.”

[sliverstorm]

Which, in this tax bracket, corresponds to roughly 40% of net income

[dmoy]

In this context it is probably referring to Fair Market Rent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_market_rent