STLCA examines Seattle's housing enforcement record to determine what the public can verify, what the City can demonstrate, and where accountability gaps remain.
Each of Seattle's seven council districts carries a distinct record signature. Shade the map by a chosen accountability flag, hover for the district's figures, and click through to its full dossier.
The volume is real. The closures are real. What is missing, at scale, is evidence that conditions were actually corrected.
The most common ending to a complaint is not a documented repair or a cited violation — it is a closure with no inspection result attached.
Roughly one in four housing complaints converts to a Notice of Violation — and the rate has fallen sharply since the early years of the dataset.
The share of records carrying no inspection date is not a fixed artifact — it grows across the timeline as intake outpaced documented follow-through.