generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  hud.gov press releases and program pages, the AFFH-T data documentation on
  docs.huduser.gov, and the ArcGIS service metadata fetched into arcgis/ on
  2026-09-07.
provider: Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
providerId: fair-housing-and-equal-opportunity
summary: >-
  FHEO publishes no API versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no Sunset or
  Deprecation header commitment, no SLA and no status page. What DOES version
  here is the data and the underlying rule — and the governing rule for the
  AFFH-T surface has been terminated, which is the material lifecycle fact on
  this record.
api_versioning:
  policy_published: false
  scheme: platform-version
  in_url: false
  current:
    arcgis_online_rest: 12
    egis_arcgis_server_rest: 10.71
  note: >-
    The only version numbers on the wire belong to Esri's platform, not to any
    FHEO contract. A consumer has no FHEO-published signal that a layer's schema
    changed.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  note: >-
    No RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header was returned by any probed
    endpoint. Layers can be republished or withdrawn from HUD Open Data without
    a machine-readable notice.
sla:
  published: false
status_page:
  published: false
  note: >-
    Neither HUD nor FHEO publishes a status page for these services. The AFFH-T
    web front end at https://egis.hud.gov/affht/ returned HTTP 503 on
    2026-09-07 with no status surface to explain it, while the ArcGIS REST
    services behind it returned 200 — an outage a consumer can only discover by
    calling.
data_versioning:
  scheme: AFFHT data version
  current: AFFHT0007
  current_note: >-
    As of the August 2024 documentation, AFFH-T maps and tables use data version
    AFFHT0007, built on the FY2023 list of program participants and Census 2020
    geographies.
  documentation: https://docs.huduser.gov/archives/sites/default/files/datasets/affh/AFFH-T-Data-Documentation-AFFHT0007-August-2024.pdf
  geographic_vintages:
    - layer: RECAP
      vintages: [1990, 2000, 2010, current]
    - layer: RECAP_2020
      vintages: [2020]
regulatory_lifecycle:
  - event: 2021 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule terminated
    date_recorded: '2026-09-07'
    source: https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-25-034
    http_status: 200
    impact: >-
      The AFFH-T Data and Mapping Tool exists to support the AFFH obligation.
      HUD has announced termination of the 2021 AFFH rule, so the AFFH-T surface
      is at material risk of withdrawal even though its REST services answered
      200 when probed. Anyone depending on egis.hud.gov/arcgis/rest/services/affht
      or the R/ECAP layers should treat them as unsupported and mirror the data.
  - event: HUD proposed rule / red-tape reduction coverage
    date_recorded: '2026-03-13'
    source: blogs/2026-03-13-secretary-scott-turner-applauds-president-trump-for-cutting-red-tape-restoring-h.md
    impact: Contextual — same policy direction, captured in this repo's blog pull.
change_log:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No dated API or dataset changelog is published. HUD press releases at
    https://www.hud.gov/press are the only dated public record, and they are
    policy announcements, not change entries.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com