The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research has updated its Guide to HUD USER Data Sets. The Guide provides descriptions for each of the twenty datasets that the Office maintains, as well as describes release information, timelines, formats and URLs for each. The Guide is comprised of the following data sets:


  • Fair Market Rents
  • Income Limits
  • 50th Percentile Rent Estimates
  • Annual Adjustment Factors
  • The 2001 Residential Finance Survey
  • Assisted Housing: National and Local
  • Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Database
  • Qualified Census Tracts and Difficult Development Areas
  • American Housing Survey (National and Metropolitan Data)
  • Property Owners & Managers Survey
  • Consolidated Plan Data (CHAS Data)
  • HUD Subprime and Manufactured Home Lender List
  • Special Tabulations of Households
  • Government Sponsored Enterprise Data
  • State of the Cities Data Systems
  • Neighborhood Stabilization Program Data
  • Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) Reports
  • Housing Affordability Data Systems
  • HUD Aggregated USPS Administrative Data on Address Vacancies


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