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City launches online housing-condition portal to map repairs, guide investments
Summary
City planners unveiled a public housing-condition portal mapping more than 53,000 structures and offering searchable, downloadable neighborhood reports and a resident request form.
The Dayton Department of Planning, Neighborhoods and Development on Wednesday launched an online housing-condition portal that displays ratings for more than 53,000 city structures and provides neighborhood data, printable PDFs and an address-search tool for residents.
Steve Bridal, director of Planning, Neighborhoods and Development, told the Dayton City Commission the portal is the product of a housing-condition survey conducted in fall 2023 and subsequent analysis with the city's GIS and public-works teams. Inspectors visited parcels in pairs, recorded structural conditions and assigned grades on a 1-to-5 scale: 1 (sound), 2 (minor repair), 3 (major repair), 4 (rehabilitation) and 5 (dilapidated). The portal shows both parcel-level grades and neighborhood average grades.
The portal, available from the city's Planning, Neighborhoods and Development website, combines a visual map dashboard and tabular data. Features demonstrated at the meeting include neighborhood filtering, parcel pop-ups with county property records, a Google Street View link, a 'request' form that routes questions to appropriate staff, and downloadable neighborhood PDFs. Mr. Bridal said the team built a separate mobile interface so staff and residents can access the data from phones during field work.
Bridal described immediate uses for the data: placing properties rated '3' into ARPA-funded rehab referral networks, informing demolition prioritization, and supporting the Housing Policy Steering Committee's use of Issue 6 housing funds. He said staff will re-survey in fall 2025; the portal stores snapshots to track percent change over time. The team also plans to integrate additional datasets such as water-usage indicators and to publish a resources list to connect residents to repair programs.
Commissioners praised the transparency and asked staff to plan neighborhood outreach and training for residents and leaders on how to use the tool. Bridal said staff will run roadshows, present at neighborhood summits and work with the housing inspections team to respond to resident concerns. He emphasized that the condition grades are point-in-time assessments and not an appeals process; residents with questions should use the portal's reporting form to request a staff visit and explanation. If code violations are found, the city will still begin its customary courtesy-notice process and escalate enforcement only as necessary.
The portal will be part of a suite of tools including the Dayton Recovery Plan dashboard and the housing tracker. Bridal said the new workflow will allow inspectors to collect field data on mobile devices that feed directly into the portal, shortening turnaround times for updates.
