Department of Housing and Urban Development

aid: department-of-housing-and-urban-development
name: Department of Housing and Urban Development
description: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the federal agency responsible for overseeing programs
  that address the country's housing needs and promote sustainable urban development. HUD exposes programmatic data through
  the HUD USER FMR/IL API for Fair Market Rents and Income Limits, the HUD eGIS storefront and ArcGIS REST services for geospatial
  assets, the data.hud.gov data catalog, and various FHA tools including mortgage limits and condominium lookup services.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/department-of-housing-and-urban-development.png
tags:
- Affordable Housing
- Fair Market Rents
- Federal Government
- FHA
- GIS
- Housing
- HUD
- Income Limits
- Mortgage
- Open Data
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-housing-and-urban-development/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: government
position: Producer
access: Public
apis:
- aid: department-of-housing-and-urban-development:hud-user-fmr-il-api
  name: HUD USER FMR/IL API
  description: The HUD USER FMR/IL API publishes Fair Market Rents (FMRs), Small Area Fair Market Rents, and Income Limits
    (IL) for U.S. metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. It exposes endpoints for listing states, metros, and counties as
    well as retrieving annual FMR and IL values for specified geographies and fiscal years. Access requires a free token obtained
    from the HUD USER portal.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html
  baseURL: https://www.huduser.gov/hudapi/public
  tags:
  - Fair Market Rents
  - Housing
  - HUD USER
  - Income Limits
  - PD&R
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html
  - type: Datasets
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdrdatas_landing.html
  - type: FMR Data
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
  - type: Income Limits
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/hudapi/public/register
  contact:
  - FN: HUD USER
    email: helpdesk@huduser.gov
    url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/home.html
- aid: department-of-housing-and-urban-development:hud-egis-arcgis
  name: HUD eGIS ArcGIS REST Services
  description: The HUD eGIS storefront publishes ArcGIS-based REST services and feature layers for the Department's geospatial
    assets, including Continuum of Care boundaries, CPD activities, public housing locations, low-income housing tax credit
    properties, and HUD-administered geographies. The services are accessible via the HUD-GIS open data portal as well as
    directly from egis.hud.gov.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/
  baseURL: https://egis.hud.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services
  tags:
  - ArcGIS
  - eGIS
  - Geospatial
  - GIS
  - HUD
  properties:
  - type: Open Data Portal
    url: https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/
  - type: ArcGIS Services
    url: https://egis.hud.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services
  - type: HUD CPD Activities Service
    url: https://egis.hud.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/cpdmaps/HudCpdActivities/MapServer
  - type: GIS Tools
    url: https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/gis-tools/
  contact:
  - FN: HUD GIS
    email: gis_helpdesk@hud.gov
    url: https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/
- aid: department-of-housing-and-urban-development:fha-mortgage-limits
  name: FHA Mortgage Limits
  description: The FHA Mortgage Limits service lets users look up the FHA or Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) mortgage
    limits for one or more areas, by state, county, or Metropolitan Statistical Area, with results that also include a Median
    Sale Price for each jurisdiction.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/hicostlook.cfm
  baseURL: https://entp.hud.gov
  tags:
  - FHA
  - Lookup
  - Mortgage Limits
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/hicostlook.cfm
  - type: FHA Resources
    url: https://www.hud.gov/fha
  contact:
  - FN: HUD FHA
    url: https://www.hud.gov/contact_us
- aid: department-of-housing-and-urban-development:hud-data-catalog
  name: HUD Open Data Catalog
  description: The HUD Open Data Catalog at data.hud.gov is curated by HUD's Office of the Chief Data Officer and lists the
    Department's open datasets across housing, community development, and fair housing. Datasets are cross-listed on Data.gov
    and accessible via Data.gov's CKAN-compatible API.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://data.hud.gov/
  baseURL: https://catalog.data.gov/api/3
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.hud.gov/open_data
  - type: Datasets
    url: https://data.hud.gov/datasets
  - type: Data.gov HUD Catalog
    url: https://catalog.data.gov/organization/hud-gov
  - type: CKAN Reference
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/
  contact:
  - FN: HUD Open Data
    email: OpenData@hud.gov
    url: https://data.hud.gov/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/department-of-housing-and-urban-development-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hud
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hud.gov
- type: Open Data
  url: https://data.hud.gov/
- type: HUD USER
  url: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/home.html
- type: HUD GIS
  url: https://hudgis-hud.opendata.arcgis.com/
- type: FHA
  url: https://www.hud.gov/fha
- type: HUD Exchange
  url: https://www.hudexchange.info/
- type: News
  url: https://www.hud.gov/press
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.hud.gov/contact_us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hud.gov/notices/privacy_policy
- type: Data.gov HUD Catalog
  url: https://catalog.data.gov/organization/hud-gov
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/HUD-USER
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/department-of-housing-and-urban-development-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/department-of-housing-and-urban-development-vocabulary.yml
- type: Capabilities
  url: capabilities/department-of-housing-and-urban-development-capabilities.yml
- url: https://www.hud.gov/rss.xml
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com