HUD USER provides students with original, electronic data sets described in the booklet, Data Sets Available from HUD USER. This includes the American Housing Survey, the largest, regular national housing sample survey in the United States. This research tool quantifies apartments and single-family, mobile, and vacant homes; family composition and income; housing and neighborhood quality; housing costs, equipment, fuels, and sizes; and recent movers.

HUD's Office of University Partnerships (OUP) facilitates campus-community bonds by sharing information about OUP's funded research. OUP enables college and university students, faculty, and neighborhood organizations to work together to revitalize the economy and to generate jobs, thus building healthy communities.