San Francisco building & housing maintenance 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the building & housing maintenance category residents of San Francisco have filed since April 2021.
Current release
Data through March 2026
Data from April 2021 through March 2026
Total Requests
20.8K
in the building & housing maintenance category
Latest Month
1.1K
March 2026
Share of total
0.5%
of all San Francisco 311 requests
Median Resolution
1.6d
half of requests close faster
Monthly building & housing maintenance requests
How many building & housing maintenance 311 requests San Francisco residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as building & housing maintenance: Complaints about the physical condition of buildings and housing — blight, code violations, failing plumbing and heat, unsanitary conditions, and property maintenance concerns on both residential and commercial properties.
In San Francisco’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into building & housing maintenance:
- Damage Property
- Residential Building
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <san_francisco_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Damage Property',
'Residential Building'
)Analyst tip: This is where NYC's HPD-style housing complaints live: 'HEAT/HOT WATER', 'PLUMBING', 'PAINT/PLASTER', 'DOOR/WINDOW', 'UNSANITARY CONDITION'. Chicago uses the single catch-all 'Building Violation'. Baton Rouge uses 'BLIGHTED PROPERTIES' and 'BUILDING CODE/ZONING VIOLATIONS'. Expect this category to be large in cities with aggressive code enforcement.
See how building & housing maintenance is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from San Francisco’s official open 311 data feed, covering April 2021 through March 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.sfgov.org.