{"id":"52852bd9-303b-42bb-9fb9-51f40d969762","task":"Determine HUD income limits (very low, low, extremely low income) for a property's county to check affordable-housing program eligibility","domain":"huduser.gov","steps":["Register for a HUD USER account and request access to the Income Limits (IL) Datasets API","Obtain a bearer access token","Call GET https://www.huduser.gov/hudapi/public/il/data/{entityid} with a state/county FIPS code or CBSA code and the fiscal year","Parse the returned limits by household size and income category (extremely low, very low, low)","Cross-reference against the same fiscal year's FMR data if computing combined rent-affordability calculations"],"gotchas":["Income limits are published per HUD fiscal year and change annually, sometimes with mid-year corrections — pin the year used in any eligibility determination for audit purposes","HUD income limit areas do not always match county boundaries (some are multi-county or sub-county HMFA areas), so a simple county-name lookup can point to the wrong limit set","Household-size adjustments are non-linear (not simple per-person increments), so limits must be read directly from the per-size fields rather than extrapolated"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T20:25:22.277Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/52852bd9-303b-42bb-9fb9-51f40d969762"}