Housing Information Portal (HIP)

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is currently developing an upgrade to the Inventory Management System/PIH Information Center (IMS/PIC). The upgrade is needed because the current IMS/PIC system is is over 20 years old, unstable, and is need of myriad costly repairs and improvements.

The HIP system is being designed to reduce administrative burden on housing authorities in the collection of HUD-50058 tenant data, public housing building and unit inventory data, and Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) information. It also allows MTW Expansion PHAs to submit the MTW Supplement to the Annual PHA Plan and TDHEs to submit household information for the Tribal HUD VASH program.

The system will be cloud based which should result in fewer system outages. The HA users will transmit HUD-50058 data through their vendor software interface, allowing them to work more in their own system instead of having to go into a system to submit 50058 data and view validation results. A replacement to the HUD Family Reporting Software (HUD FRS) is also being developed and will be a fillable form within the system. PHAs will continue to log in to the system to maintain their public housing building and unit inventory.

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Housing Information Portal (HIP) Training - this page contains the training materials for the modules that are currently being used in production
Housing Information Portal (HIP) Technical Information - this page contains information for third-party HUD-50058 software vendors, PHAs that build and maintain their own HUD-50058 software, and other interested parties on the technical aspects of HIP. This includes:
- For those that build HUD-50058 software, how to request to start the process to be able to connect to HIP for testing.
- The errors used to validate HUD-50058 submissions.
- The JSON mapping information used for HUD-50058 submissions.
- The Technical Reference Guide (TRG)