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| Month | What happened | Tool | Reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | Cited in a Bronx Defenders housing-court filing; HPD violation history used to contest an eviction. | Building Report | 1 case |
| Apr 2026 | Featured in a community newsroom investigation into a 14-building Bronx portfolio with 218 open violations. | Landlord Watch | 28k reads |
| Mar 2026 | School-budget data presented at a District 9 Community Education Council hearing on Title I allocation. | School Budget | 1 hearing |
| Feb 2026 | Eviction-history lookups quoted in a Brooklyn tenants' union newsletter circulated to 4,200 households. | Eviction Records | 4,200 hh |
| Jan 2026 | 311 complaint patterns referenced in a community-board testimony on noise enforcement gaps. | 311 Lookup | 1 board |
| Dec 2025 | Building Report used by mutual-aid organizers to triage heat complaints during the December cold snap. | Building Report | 11 buildings |
The marshal already had the order. I pulled the building's record on my phone in the lobby and showed the judge — fourteen open violations, six of them Class C. We got an adjournment. — Housing-court tenant · The Bronx · April 2026
I'd been asking the district for our school's PTA breakdown for two years. It was already public; I just couldn't find it. Found it on CivicByte in ninety seconds. — Parent association co-chair · Brooklyn · March 2026
We use Landlord Watch as the first pass on any tenant who walks into our clinic. Saves an hour of FOIL requests per case. — Pro-bono housing attorney · Manhattan · February 2026
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Numbers on this page are rounded to the nearest hundred. Anything quoted as a case, hearing, or filing has been verified with the person involved before publication.
Method note · 2026 H1
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