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Ordinance supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title I, Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, by adding a new Chapter, "Chapter 173A: Housing Data Dashboard"
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WHEREAS, in 2014 the City of Pittsburgh added Chapter 162: Open Data Sets into City code to commit to the spirit of open government, with published datasets reviewed regularly for additions; and,
WHEREAS, open data increases transparency and access to government information, and enhances coordination and efficiencies among departments and partner organizations across all sectors, and is used internally for benchmarking and goal-tracking; and,
WHERAS, recent policy proposals regarding zoning reform in Pittsburgh have brought data discrepancies in tracking new development into focus; and,
WHEREAS, while disagreements on policy may persist, the City must immediately to collect and present quality data on housing production and availability, including existing housing, pipeline projects and housing that comes offline for neglect or for other projects; and,
WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of local government to maintain and increase housing affordability for middle- and low-income households and address the growing gap of affordable and deeply-affordable housing supply; and,
WHEREAS, What is measured is improved.
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title I, Administrative, Article VII, Procedures, is hereby supplemented as follows:
Chapter 173A - Housing Data
? 173A.01 PURPOSE
A. The purpose of this legislation is to establish easily accessible and accurate monthly data of newly constructed residential housing units that are available for occupancy as well as having easily accessible and accurate monthly data of residential housing units that are no longer available for occupancy.
B. While it may be useful to collect other data in this process, such as value, affordability, subsidy, code viola...
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