RentSmart Boston
Housing violations, complaints, and inspections for Boston rental properties — civic data with real housing-justice questions in it.
The City of Boston’s RentSmart dataset: housing violations, building complaints, service requests, and inspection outcomes tied to rental addresses. Self-hosted copy of the export from Analyze Boston.
The course’s largest file and one of its most meaningful — analyses here feed directly into questions about neighborhood disparities and tenant protections. Bring patience (and a filter) — 77 MB of CSV rewards loading only what you need.
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