HUD FMR and Income Limits with AI: Housing Research Needs Source Data
Housing research questions are easy to ask and easy to answer badly.
"Is this county affordable?" "What does HUD say about rent here?" "Which income limit should I use?" "How much cost burden shows up in CHAS?"
An agent can only answer those questions well if it works from source data: HUD Fair Market Rents, standard income limits, MTSP income limits, geography identifiers, and CHAS affordability tables. A language model alone will blur those concepts together.
We rebuilt the HUD Housing Data MCP server around that evidence path, so agents can retrieve the HUD rows first and then explain what they mean.
