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HUD Housing Data MCP Server

com.olyport/hud-housing
answering

HUD Housing Data is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Fair Market Rents, income limits, public housing, vouchers, and homeless counts

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
532 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hud-housing --transport http https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hud-housing": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hud-housing]
url = "https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hud-housing": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hud-housing": {
      "url": "https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

fair
get_fair_market_rents
Get HUD Fair Market Rent (FMR) values for 0-4 bedroom units. Returns FMR data used to determine Housing Choice Voucher payment standards and other HUD program parameters. Requires HUD User API token; returns registration guidance if token is not configured. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'WA'). county_fips: Optional 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '06037' for LA County). If omitted, returns statewide FMR data. year: FMR fiscal year (default 2024).
homeless
get_homeless_data
Get Point-in-Time (PIT) homeless count data by Continuum of Care region. Returns homeless population counts from the annual PIT count, broken down by sheltered/unsheltered status and sub-populations. Data sourced from HUD Exchange via ArcGIS open data. No API key required. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'WA'). At least one of state or coc_code must be provided. coc_code: Optional Continuum of Care code (e.g. 'WA-500', 'CA-600'). year: Optional year to filter results.
housing
get_housing_vouchers
Get Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) program data by Public Housing Agency. Returns information about voucher programs administered by PHAs in the specified state, including total vouchers, utilization rates, and spending. Queries HUD ArcGIS open data (no auth required). Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'NY'). limit: Maximum number of records to return (default 50, max 500).
income
get_income_limits
Get HUD income limits (very low, low, median) by family size. Returns income limit data used to determine eligibility for HUD assisted housing programs. Requires HUD User API token. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'CA', 'NY'). county_fips: Optional 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '06037'). If omitted, returns data for all areas in the state. year: Income limit fiscal year (default 2024).
public
get_public_housing
Get public housing buildings and developments in a state. Queries HUD's open ArcGIS data for public housing inventory. No API key required. Returns building names, addresses, unit counts, and managing Public Housing Agency information. Args: state: Two-letter US state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'TX'). city: Optional city name to filter results. limit: Maximum number of records to return (default 50, max 500).

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.olyport.com/hud-housing/mcp streamable-http answering 540 ms 5 min ago

HUD Housing Data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HUD Housing Data do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_fair_market_rents, get_homeless_data, get_housing_vouchers, get_income_limits, get_public_housing. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is HUD Housing Data working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 532 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect HUD Housing Data?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does HUD Housing Data need an API key?
No. HUD Housing Data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is HUD Housing Data?
It answers our handshake in 532 ms on average, which is faster than 20% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.