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US Building & Housing Code Violations

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US Building & Housing Code Violations

US Building & Housing Code Violations

Open building & housing code violations from public city open-data (NYC HPD + Chicago), normalized to one schema with severity class, status, address, and geocode. Distressed-property signal. Public data only.

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Filing Radar

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Find distressed and non-compliant properties. This Actor pulls open building & housing code violations from official city open-data portals, normalizes them to one clean schema — with severity class, status, address, and geocode — and flags the recent ones (last 30 days). An open violation means a property that needs work, has a problem, or is in distress.

Live coverage: New York City (HPD housing) + Chicago (building). More cities on request. 100% public government data — no logins, no gray areas.


Who uses this

  • Remediation / repair contractors (lead paint, mold, plumbing, electrical, roofing) — an open violation is a job that has to get done.
  • Real-estate investors & wholesalers — violation-heavy buildings signal distress and deals.
  • Property managers & owners — monitor a portfolio's open violations in one feed.
  • Proptech, lenders, insurers — property-risk scoring at the address level.

What's in every record

FieldExample
violation_id19018190
violation_categoryHousing maintenance · Building code
violation_classA (non-hazardous) · B (hazardous) · C (immediately hazardous) — NYC
violation_statusopen · complied · closed
violation_descriptionCorrect the lead-based paint hazard … bathroom, apt 7C
violation_date2026-06-12
change_typeNEW = dated in the last 30 days
address · city · county · state · zip… W 145th St, Manhattan, NY
lat / lnggeocoded where the city provides it (Chicago)
source / source_urlprovenance for every row

Export to JSON, CSV, or Excel, or pull via the Apify API.

Inputs

InputWhat it does
Cities / statesNY (NYC HPD), IL (Chicago building).
FilterEmpty = all. ["NEW"] = only violations dated in the last 30 days.
Max records per cityCap the volume (and your cost) per run.

Pricing

Pay per result — you only pay for the records you receive: $0.004 per delivered violation record. No subscription, no minimums.

Data sources & legality

100% public city open-data APIs, intended for reuse:

  • NYC — HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations (data.cityofnewyork.us)
  • Chicago — Building Violations (data.cityofchicago.org)

Public property-level enforcement records — no personal data. The Actor only touches public endpoints, never logged-in or ToS-gated sources, and rate-limits politely.

FAQ

How fresh is it? As fresh as the city portals — NEW flags any violation dated in the last 30 days.

Which cities? NYC + Chicago now. Want LA, Philadelphia, Boston, or your city next? Request it.

Is this AI-generated? The data is real government open-data; an automated pipeline normalizes and de-duplicates it. No fabricated rows, ever.

What do the NYC classes mean? A = non-hazardous, B = hazardous, C = immediately hazardous.