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Locations of issued construction permits. This dataset can be a useful tool for tracking city real estate development trends, including neighborhoods most at risk of gentrification or disinvestment, as well as for tracking specific development projects and holding developers and city planners accountable. (More info)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licensed | Yes | CC0 |
| Available in bulk | No | Data broken into monthly extracts |
| Up-to-date | Yes | Published monthly. Data up to date but could be published more-frequently |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| In an open format | XLS | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | Keyword search "permit" on WPRDC | |
| licence_url | https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/city-of-pittsburgh-build | Refer to metadata |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Parcel numbers not standardized, and separate resources for each month are not ideal format for users. |
| collector_name | City of Pittsburgh Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections | |
| characteristics | Date of issue, Address, Permit type, Work description | |
| location | href="https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/city-of-pittsburgh-building-permit-summary" https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/city-of-pittsburgh-build">rel="nofollow">https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/city-of-pittsburgh-build - wprdc |