database of nyc housing data
Project description
a tool for building a database of NYC housing data
This is a Python library and cli tool for installing, updating and managing NYC-DB, a postgres database of Housing Data for NYC.
why is this needed?
New York City is in a housing crisis. Some landlords leave their buildings in despair and let their tenants suffer without heat in winter. Others evict their tenants, legally or illegally, in order to flip buildings and profit off of gentrification. Affordable housing is a scarce resource.
Residents, lawyers, tenants, and organizers who want to use data in their struggle turn to proprietary databases and resources, like PropertyShark, designed for real estate or contend with CSV and printouts from city websites. NYC-DB aims to give technologists and researchers who want to volunteer their time helping community groups who are defending the city against the real estate industry a leg up by providing a ready-to-use database filled with housing data.
How to use
After installing via pip:
pip3 install nycdbYou’ll be able to use the program nycdb to import a database.
For example to load all of hpd violations:
nycdb --download hpd_violations
nycdb --load hpd_violations -P YOUR_PG_PASSWORD -D YOUR_DATABASETo see more options run: nycdb –help
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