# Department of Housing and Urban Development

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/department-of-housing-and-urban-development/  
**Website:** https://www.hud.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 15.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **HUD USER FMR/IL API** — 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 end...
- **HUD eGIS ArcGIS REST Services** — 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, p...
- **FHA Mortgage Limits** — 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 Stat...
- **HUD Open Data Catalog** — 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, an...

## Security (1)

- **Department Of Housing And Urban Development Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Department Of Housing And Urban Development Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Affordable Housing, Fair Market Rents, Federal-Government, FHA, GIS, Housing, HUD, Income Limits, Mortgage, Open Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/department-of-housing-and-urban-development/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.