Locus housing supply balance

What the provider says

Quoted from x402 Bazaar · source record · read 2026-10-26

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Facts and where they come from

Price

0.01 USDC per call Provider claim

Recorded value: 0.01 USDC per call.

Unit

per call

Protocol

x402, REST · transport: HTTP Provider claim

Auth

x402

Endpoint

https://api.locus.report/api/locus-housing-supply-balance

Source

x402 Bazaar (Coinbase CDP) · Public discovery API (provider-published records)

Last checked

Not checked by us yet — the data is as the source published it

First seen

2026-10-24

Usage

3 calls · 1 unique payers in the 30 days before 2026-10-24. Measured by the x402 Bazaar, not by us and not by the provider.

Payments and earnings

No settled payment on record. Earnings for this service are unknown — not zero. The source counts 3 calls in 30 days, which at the published price is roughly $0.03 of activity. Activity is not revenue; no charge has been reconciled for it.

Payment rails

A payment rail is where the provider asks to be paid. It is not proof that anything was paid through it. See evidence levels.

Input and output, as published

Request

{
    "body": {
        "address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
    },
    "bodyType": "json",
    "method": "POST",
    "type": "http"
}

Response

{
    "example": {
        "caveats": [
            "Reported inputs and a computed ratio only. Locus performs no comparison against any published benchmark and applies no label of its own."
        ],
        "componentStatus": [
            {
                "component": "census_bps_county",
                "status": "ok"
            }
        ],
        "employment": {
            "annualAvgEmployment": 665775,
            "basis": "place of work, UI-covered employment (BLS QCEW annual averages)",
            "netChange": 12622,
            "priorAnnualAvgEmployment": 653153,
            "priorYear": 2024,
            "year": 2025
        },
        "geo": {
            "county": "Wake County",
            "countyFips": "37183",
            "state": "NC"
        },
        "kind": "housing_supply_balance",
        "note": "Awareness/diagnostic only. Full briefs are x402-paid. Agents can discover live free tools at https://api.locus.report/tools/list and paid tools, prices, and manifests at https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json.",
        "ok": true,
        "permits": {
            "imputedShare": 0.004,
            "multifamilyUnits": 5628,
            "present": true,
            "reportedTotalUnits": 15180,
            "singleFamilyUnits": 9620,
            "totalUnits": 15248,
            "year": 2024
        },
        "point": {
            "latitude": 35.780418000003195,
            "longitude": -78.63910200000142
        },
        "provenance": {
            "employment": {
                "granularity": "county, calendar-year annual average, place of work, UI-covered employment",
                "source": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages - annual averages, all ownerships, county total",
                "sourceUrl": "https://www.bls.gov/cew/"
            },
            "housingStock": {
                "granularity": "county, 5-year estimate",
                "source": "U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year, table B25001 (total housing units)",
                "sourceUrl": "https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2023.B25001",
                "vintage": "ACSDT5Y2023"
            },
            "permits": {
                "granularity": "county aggregate, calendar year",
                "source": "U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey - annual county file (residential units authorized by building permit)",
                "sourceUrl": "https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/"
            }
        },
        "publishedBenchmarks": [
            {
                "label": "NAHB stated balanced band, jobs per total housing unit permitted",
                "note": "NAHB describes this as a historical observation and does not source it further. NAHB computes at metro (MSA) level.",
                "source": "NAHB Eye on Housing, June 2026",
                "url": "https://eyeonhousing.org/2026/06/structural-demand-outpacing-supply-jobs-to-permits-ratios-highlight-housing-gap/",
                "value": "1.25 to 1.50"
            }
        ],
        "publishedCritiques": [
            {
                "source": "MPF Research / National Apartment Association, 2015, 'Job Growth-to-Absorption: Doesn't Add Up'",
                "summary": "NAA / MPF Research measured this ratio family at -161 to +130 jobs per unit of demand across 50 apartment markets over 14 years and called its reliability 'surprisingly bad'.",
                "url": "https://www.naahq.org/news-publications/units/october-2015-issue/article/job-growth-absorption-doesnt-add"
            }
        ],
        "ratios": {
            "convention": "jobs in year N divided by housing units permitted in year N-1 (NAHB convention; the one-year lag reflects the time permitted units take to move through construction)",
            "jobsPerMultifamilyUnitPermitted": 2.24,
            "jobsPerTotalUnitPermitted": 0.83
        },
        "status": "ok",
        "supplyPipeline": {
            "note": "Permits authorized, not units delivered.",
            "totalHousingUnits": 481999,
            "unitsPermittedAsShareOfStockPct": 3.163
        },
        "verifyNext": [
            {
                "step": "Read the county's full permit history in the Census Building Permits Survey.",
                "url": "https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/"
            }
        ]
    },
    "type": "json"
}

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Provenance

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Endpoint checks

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