Violations issued by the Department of Buildings in the City of Chicago from 2006 to the present. The dataset contains more than 1 million records/rows of data and cannot be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel. Therefore, when downloading the file, select CSV from the Export menu. Open the file in an ASCII text editor, such as Wordpad, to view and search. Violations are always associated to an inspection and there can be multiple violation records to one(1) inspection record. Data fields requiring description are detailed below. VIOLATION DATE: The date the violation was cited. INSPECTION CATEGORY: Inspections are categorized by one of the following: COMPLAINT – Inspection is a result of a 311 Complaint PERIODIC – Inspection is a result of recurring inspection (typically on an annual cycle) PERMIT – Inspection is a result of a Permit REGISTRATION – Inspection is a result of a Registration (typically Vacant Building Registration) PROPERTY GROUP: Properties (lots) in the City of Chicago can typically have multiple point addresses, range addresses and buildings. Examples are corner lots, large lots, lots with front and rear buildings, etc.. As a result, inspections (and their associated violations), permits and complaints related to a single property could have different addresses. This problem can be reconciled by using Property Group. All point and range addresses for a property are assigned the same Property Group key. Data Owner: Buildings Time Period: January 1, 2006 to present Frequency: Data is updated daily Related Applications: Building Data Warehouse http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/bldgs/provdrs/inspect/svcs/building_violationsonline.html

Data collected from CSR production system. Data begins 01/03/2014 and is refreshed daily at 4:00am. For more info: http://austintexas.gov/department/311/socrata

Properties on the Vacant and Abandoned Property list. Note: some properties may no longer be vacant or abandoned. Conditions are in no way an endorsement or guarantee by the city of what repairs are required at each property

Pursuant to New York City’s Housing Maintenance Code, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) issues violations against conditions in rental dwelling units that have been verified to violate the New York City Housing Maintenance Code (HMC) or the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law (MDL). Violations are issued when an inspection verifies that a violation of the HMC or MDL exists. It is closed when the violation is corrected, as observed/verified by HPD or as certified by the landlord.

Current and historical information about complaints received that have become cases for further investigation.

n 2006, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began acquiring quarterly extracts of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) data and publishing this data as a possible indicator of blight and vacancy for cities nationwide. In this report, addresses coded as “no–stat” in the HUD data are used as proxies for blighted housing units in New Orleans because a parcel–by–parcel census of all properties in New Orleans is not available. (HUD data description available at: http://www.huduser.org/portal/datasets/usps.html)

Contains information about problems associated with complaints.

A list of complaints received and associated data. Prior monthly reports are archived at DOB and are not available on NYC Open Data.

All 311 Service Requests from 2010 to present. This information is automatically updated daily.

Post-Katrina damage assessment conducted by City inspectors, published by address with breakdown by category. These data formerly supported the "Damage Assessment Wizard" web tool. Also see attachment 'DA_Categories' for insight as to how damage was assessed.