AHS: Housing Affordability Data System Updated for 2011

The Housing Affordability Data System (HADS) is a set of files derived from the American Housing Survey (AHS). This system categorizes housing units by affordability and households by income, with respect to the Adjusted Median Income, Fair Market Rent (FMR), and poverty income. It also includes housing cost burden for owner and renter households. We are provided these files to give the community of housing analysts a consistent set of affordability measures. The files contain the AHS CONTROL variable, and so they can be linked to the regular AHS public use files.

The HADS file based on the 2011 AHS is now available for download from
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/hads/hads.html, in both SAS and ASCII formats.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890