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    • American Housing Survey (AHS)

    Metadata Updated: March 11, 2026

    The AHS is the largest, regular national housing sample survey in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the AHS to obtain up-to-date housing statistics for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The AHS national survey was conducted annually from 1973-1981 and biennially (every two years) since 1983. Metropolitan area surveys have been conducted annually or biennially since 1974.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from HUD JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date March 11, 2026
    Publisher U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
    Maintainer
    Identifier HUD025
    Data First Published 1973
    Data Last Modified 2018-09-09
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 025:28
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 1313a528-8bd1-4882-bab9-c97bb2e0aefc
    Harvest Source Id c98ee13b-1e1a-4350-a47e-1bf13aaa35d6
    Harvest Source Title HUD JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data.html
    Old Spatial USA
    Program Code 025:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 400bcc60715266b0abd62187c2fedabad5510d78d92145b1a605c0b89514ffbb
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial

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