Bedcount: student housing data by campus MCP Server

by studenthousing Your server? Claim it

answering

Bedcount: student housing data by campus is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

IPEDS enrollment, college housing beds and bed gap at 693 US campuses, plus a loan sizer.

Uptime history 21 hours of history

21 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

78 of 78 checks

Tools

read from the server

253 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Bedcount: student housing data by campus every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add studenthousing-loans --transport http https://studenthousing.loans/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://studenthousing.loans/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.studenthousing-loans]
url = "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "studenthousing-loans": {
      "url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "studenthousing-loans": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://studenthousing.loans/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

campus

get_campus

One US four-year campus (3,000+ full-time students) from federal IPEDS data: fall 2024 enrollment (total, full-time, undergraduate, graduate, online share, change from 2023), college-controlled housing beds for 2024-25, beds per 100 full-time students, the bed gap, typical housing and food charges, aid-office housing budgets, and whether it meets Fannie Mae's 10,000-student campus-size test. Find it by name (with optional state) or IPEDS UNITID.

campuses

search_campuses

Lists US four-year campuses (3,000+ full-time students) filtered by state, city, name words, sector, whether the college offers housing, Fannie Mae campus-size test, or minimum full-time enrollment, ranked by bed gap, enrollment, college beds, beds per 100 students or housing charge. Each row gives fall 2024 enrollment, 2024-25 college-controlled beds, bed gap, housing charge and the campus page link.

size

size_loan

The studenthousing.loans by-the-bed loan sizer: from beds, rent per bed, months collected, vacancy, expenses, reserves, value and your own interest rate, returns net operating income and the loan allowed by max LTV, min DSCR and an optional debt yield, the maximum loan (the smallest), which test binds, annual debt service and loan per bed. Presets are Freddie Mac's published student housing LTV/DSCR tiers.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://studenthousing.loans/mcp	streamable-http	answering	131 ms	3 min ago

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Bedcount: student housing data by campus — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Bedcount: student housing data by campus do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_campus, search_campuses, size_loan. 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 Bedcount: student housing data by campus working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 78 of 78 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 253 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Bedcount: student housing data by campus?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Bedcount: student housing data by campus need an API key?

No. Bedcount: student housing data by campus completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Bedcount: student housing data by campus?

It answers our handshake in 253 ms on average, which is faster than 56% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.