generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  Registry lookups against pypi.org/pypi/<pkg>/json, registry.npmjs.org,
  crandb.r-pkg.org and cran.r-project.org, plus the HUD USER Datasets API
  documentation at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html
provider: Department of Housing and Urban Development
providerId: department-of-housing-and-urban-development
summary: >-
  HUD publishes NO first-party client libraries for any of its APIs. The HUD
  USER Datasets API documentation shows raw curl, Python `requests` and R
  `httr` examples only — there is no HUD-maintained SDK on npm, PyPI, Maven
  Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev, RubyGems, Packagist or crates.io, and the
  official HUD GitHub organization (https://github.com/hudgov) publishes no
  client library. The packages below are COMMUNITY-maintained wrappers,
  recorded here for accuracy and explicitly marked official: false.
official_package_count: 0
community_package_count: 2
packages:
  - name: hudpy
    registry: pypi
    url: https://pypi.org/project/hudpy/
    language: python
    official: false
    maintainer: etam4260 (independent, not HUD)
    repository: https://github.com/etam4260/hudpy
    version: 0.2.0
    published: '2022-06-13'
    description: >-
      A Python interface to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
      APIs (FMR, IL, CHAS, USPS Crosswalk).
    note: >-
      Third-party. Last release 2022-06-13, more than four years before this
      probe — it predates the 2025 Income Limits FIPS-code change that HUD
      documents on the FMR API page, so consumers cannot assume it tracks the
      current API.
  - name: rhud
    registry: github
    url: https://github.com/etam4260/rhud
    language: r
    official: false
    maintainer: etam4260 (independent, not HUD)
    repository: https://github.com/etam4260/rhud
    version: null
    published: null
    description: An R interface for the HUD USER Datasets APIs.
    note: >-
      Third-party and NOT distributed through CRAN — https://cran.r-project.org/package=rhud
      returned 404 on 2026-09-06 and crandb.r-pkg.org/rhud carried no Version or
      Date/Publication field, so no registry metadata endpoint exists to read a
      version or release date from. Recorded as null (checked, nothing to record),
      not omitted.
gaps:
  - >-
    No first-party SDK in any language. A HUD-maintained Python client would be
    the highest-value addition given the documented Python example on every HUD
    USER API page.