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    • Housing Affordability Data System (HADS)

    Metadata Updated: March 11, 2026

    The Housing Affordability Data System (HADS) is a set of files derived from the 1985 and later national American Housing Survey (AHS) and the 2002 and later Metro AHS. This system categorizes housing units by affordability and households by income, with respect to the Adjusted Median Income, Fair Market Rent (FMR), and poverty income. It also includes housing cost burden for owner and renter households. These files have been the basis for the worst case needs tables since 2001. The data files are available for public use, since they were derived from AHS public use files and the published income limits and FMRs. These dataset give the community of housing analysts the opportunity to use a consistent set of affordability measures. The most recent year HADS is available as a Public Use File (PUF) is 2013. For 2015 and beyond, HADS is only available as an IUF and can no longer be released on a PUF. Those seeking access to more recent data should reach to the listed point of contact.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from HUD JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    Maintainer
    Identifier HUD031
    Data Last Modified 2015-06-25
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 025:28
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/hads/HADS_doc.pdf
    Harvest Object Id 9c9f20cc-04b3-41e7-b2ac-05a3711181f9
    Harvest Source Id c98ee13b-1e1a-4350-a47e-1bf13aaa35d6
    Harvest Source Title HUD JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/hads/hads.html
    Program Code 025:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 688be18969327a223e3a34fe08a42bb01e69bbdd6525de6a2827b886b3bd7333
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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