Chambana Sun

The Code Compliance Division of the Neighborhood Services Department continued to receive a high number of tenant inspection requests and housing inspection cases in 2023. This continues a trend that began in 2021. Tenant inspection requests are requests for inspection from tenants in rental units. Housing inspection cases include exterior structure complaints, fire damaged properties, and referrals from the Fire Department for other issues that were observed (such as carbon monoxide issues, fire alarm issues, or frozen/leaking pipes).

2022 and 2023 saw a large number of tenant inspection requests and housing inspection cases from the Champaign Park Apartment (CPA) complex. Even when removing the CPA cases from the tenant inspection requests and housing inspection cases, the number of cases is nearly double the ten-year average from 2011-2020 for tenant inspection cases and more than double the ten-year average for housing inspection cases.

	2023	2022	2021	10-Year Average2013-2022	10-Year Average2011-2020
Tenant Inspection Requests	319	374	247	185	148
Tenant Inspection Requests (Non – CPA)	293	294	220	N/A	N/A
Housing Inspection cases	255	305	273	193	119
Housing Inspection cases (Non – CPA)	249	255	261	N/A	N/A

The month of January has historically been a relatively slow month for tenant inspection requests. January 2023 and January 2024 have had large numbers of tenant inspection requests. Even when taking out the tenant inspection requests from the Champaign Park Apartment (CPA) Complex the number of tenant inspection requests is more than double the five-year average from 2018 to 2022.

	January 2024	January 2023	January 2022	5-Year Average 2018-2022
Tenant Inspection Requests	41	50	21	16.6
Tenant Inspection Requests (Non – CPA)	38	37	20	N/A

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