{
 "mpls-licenses": {
  "name": "Minneapolis Active Rental Licenses",
  "publisher": "City of Minneapolis",
  "url": "https://opendata.minneapolismn.gov/datasets/cityoflakes::active-rental-licenses/about",
  "used_for": "Minneapolis rental addresses, licensed units, license tier, and the license owner's name when the county record has no business name",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-17"
 },
 "mpls-violations": {
  "name": "Minneapolis rental property violations",
  "publisher": "City of Minneapolis",
  "url": "https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/government-data/datasource/rental-property-violations-dashboard",
  "used_for": "Housing code violations by rental license, 2024-01-02 to 2026-10-15",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-17"
 },
 "sp-cofo": {
  "name": "Saint Paul Certificate of Occupancy – Residential",
  "publisher": "City of Saint Paul",
  "url": "https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/8908aa067a434a92b15cf7e61837ff2b_0",
  "used_for": "Saint Paul rental addresses, units, fire inspection grade (A to D) and registered student housing",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-17",
  "file_date": "the city's service shows its last edit on July 1, 2025, so grades and statuses may be more than a year old"
 },
 "sp-parcels": {
  "name": "Metro Regional Parcel Dataset, Saint Paul residential parcels",
  "publisher": "MetroGIS (Metropolitan Council and the seven metro counties), via the Minnesota Geospatial Commons",
  "url": "https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/groups/us-mn-state-metrogis-plan-regional-parcels",
  "used_for": "Saint Paul buildings missing from the certificate of occupancy list: non-homestead apartment, low-income rental and residential parcels owned by businesses",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-17",
  "file_date": "latest quarterly release on the retrieval date; the files carry no release date of their own"
 },
 "building-names": {
  "name": "Building names from listing and official pages",
  "publisher": "Various; see common_name_source on each row",
  "url": "see source_url in source-building-names.csv",
  "used_for": "Common or marketed building names tied to addresses",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-24"
 },
 "parcels": {
  "name": "Metro Regional Parcel Dataset (Hennepin and Ramsey parcel points)",
  "publisher": "MetroGIS (Metropolitan Council and the seven metro counties), via the Minnesota Geospatial Commons",
  "url": "https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/groups/us-mn-state-metrogis-plan-regional-parcels",
  "used_for": "Recorded owner name and the address where the property tax bill goes, used to name owners and link buildings into tax-bill groups",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-17",
  "file_date": "latest quarterly release on the retrieval date; the files carry no release date of their own"
 },
 "hud-mf-report": {
  "name": "Multifamily inspection report, MF-Inspection-Report.xls (latest three scores per property)",
  "publisher": "U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Multifamily Housing",
  "url": "https://www.hud.gov/stat/mfh/inspection-scores",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-24",
  "file_date": "the HUD page says data as of Oct. 6, 2026; the newest release date in the file is Aug. 14, 2026",
  "used_for": "hud_score, hud_score_released, earlier scores"
 },
 "hud-mf-scores": {
  "name": "Multifamily physical inspection scores",
  "publisher": "HUD, Office of Policy Development and Research (HUD User)",
  "url": "https://www.huduser.gov/PORTAL/node/6626",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-24",
  "file_date": "2026-04-08 (file name)",
  "used_for": "addresses and coordinates of HUD multifamily properties, to place them in a city and match them to buildings"
 },
 "hud-ph-scores": {
  "name": "Public housing physical inspection scores",
  "publisher": "HUD, Office of Policy Development and Research (HUD User)",
  "url": "https://www.huduser.gov/PORTAL/node/6626",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-24",
  "file_date": "2026-04-08 (file name)",
  "used_for": "scores of public housing developments"
 },
 "city-bounds": {
  "name": "Minnesota precinct boundaries (Minneapolis and Saint Paul precincts merged into city outlines)",
  "publisher": "Minnesota Secretary of State statewide precinct file, as packaged in civic-data-boundaries-us-mn-precincts (MIT license)",
  "url": "https://github.com/civic-interconnect/civic-data-boundaries-us-mn-precincts",
  "retrieved": "2026-10-16",
  "file_date": "snapshot 2026-05-01",
  "used_for": "deciding whether a HUD property is inside Minneapolis or Saint Paul from its coordinates"
 }
}