About Housing Data Hub

Who we are

Housing Data Hub is an independent, free directory of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data, organized by city and town. We are not affiliated with HUD, with any state housing authority, or with any landlord or property-management company. We don't process applications, we don't take fees from renters, and we don't sell anyone's contact information. Everything on the site is published in the open, indexed by search engines, and free to read without an account.

What problem we're trying to solve

If you live in a major U.S. metro area, you have your pick of websites that explain how Section 8 works and how to apply. If you live in a town of 4,000 people in central Iowa, central Kentucky, or eastern Oregon, your options drop off a cliff. The local housing authority might not have a website. The county-level Fair Market Rent might be buried in a 600-row HUD spreadsheet. The income limits might be labeled by metropolitan statistical area names that don't match anything on a map.

Illustrative photo — a rural residential street, representative of the small towns and counties this site covers.

We built Housing Data Hub to give those communities a clean, readable starting point. Each city page covers the local geography, links directly to HUD's official Fair Market Rent and Income Limits tools, points you to HUD's official Public Housing Agency directory to find the agency serving that area, and includes a short FAQ about what rent ranges and eligibility actually look like in that area. We are not currently publishing our own dollar-figure tables or per-agency contact details on city pages pending a verified data refresh — HUD's own tools, linked from every page, are the authoritative source for those specific figures today.

Where our data comes from

The community list is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau 2023 TIGER/Line Gazetteer, which is the federal government's official list of incorporated places, towns, and census-designated places. Fair Market Rent and income-limit baselines come from HUD User's FY2024 Fair Market Rent dataset and the corresponding income-limit publications. Public Housing Agency contact information should always be verified against HUD's official PHA contacts directory, which is the authoritative source.

What we are not

Housing Data Hub is not an application portal. We can't add you to a waiting list, check your eligibility, or expedite a voucher. For any of those, you need to contact the housing authority listed on your city's page. We're a starting point, not a replacement for the official process — and we are very deliberately upfront about that.

Get in touch

If you find inaccurate information on a city page or want us to add a community we don't yet cover, please reach out via the resources page. We refresh the data once per HUD fiscal year as new FMR and income-limit tables are published.