The Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) was created in 1975, vide an act of the State Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
Its jurisdiction was expanded in 2008 by merging it with the surrounding mandals to form the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority.
The first Vice Chairman and chief executive officer, was Vasant Bawa, of the Indian Administrative Services.
In early 1976 the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) from Ahmedabad was engaged to prepare a zonal plan, and Christopher Charles Benninger was engaged to prepare a low income township at Yousufguda, which included more than 2000 "growing houses" on plots ranging from two hundred to one thousand square feet.
The idea was to provide a hygienic wet core for each house, a plinth and to allow the participants to construct their own homes.