Permit Report now covers 8 metros nationwide

We're shipping live permit data adapters for eight US metros — pulling address-queryable permit records directly from each city or county's open-data portal on every lookup, no warehouse lag, no copy-paste.

What "live" means here

Every Basic report and every Premium PDF order triggers a fresh query against the upstream Socrata or ArcGIS dataset. We cache the result for 24 hours to keep public-portal cost down, but the underlying source is whatever the jurisdiction published this morning — same source your municipal portal pulls from, just through one API.

The adapters we shipped

San Francisco — Building Permits (Socrata i98e-djp9, combined view over filed + historical). Column tokens: permit_number, permit_type_definition, street_number, street_name, street_suffix, description, status, filed_date, issued_date, estimated_cost. Validator addresses 680 / 855 / 1140 Folsom St verified live within the freshness window.

Chicago — Building Permits (Socrata ydr8-5enu). The first adapter in production and still the workhorse — street_number/street_direction/street_name LIKE triplet, issue_date DESC.

Seattle — Building Permits (Socrata 76t5-zqzr). Flat address columns originaladdress1 / originalcity / originalstate / originalzip plus real statuscurrent.

Los Angeles — LADBS (Socrata pi9x-tg5x, 2020–present). Window is honest: 2020 forward; pre-2020 LADBS history lives in companion Socrata datasets that aren’t wired yet. Validator addresses 13400 Riverside Dr + 11611 San Vicente Blvd return rows inside the 12-month gate.

New York City — DOB (Socrata ipu4-2q9a). Permit Issuance dataset, house_no / street_name (direction stored as a full word inside street_name) / issuance_date with ordinal-street fuzz for 1st–12th.

Austin — Building Permits (Socrata 3syk-w9eu). The Datahub schema is the cleanest we read — single address column, issued_date, real status.

Washington DC — DCRA Permits (DC Open Data ArcGIS FeatureServer, maps2.dcgis.dc.gov FEEDS/DCRA). Year-partitioned layers queried in parallel (2023–2026). Field tokens: FULL_ADDRESS, PERMIT_ID, DESC_OF_WORK, APPLICATION_STATUS_NAME.

Houston — City of Houston Building Permits (ArcGIS FeatureServer cohgis-mycity.opendata.arcgis.com). Live adapter replacing a noop stub — the PublicSafety/BuildingPermits layer is real and address-queryable.

San Antonio — CoSA permits (locally ingested from the City of San Antonio permits_issued.csv feed). Read against san_antonio_permits — we ingest daily because Cloudflare-fronted CKAN datastore SQL blocks Render’s egress.

What an order looks like

Look up an address → render the structured permit history as a PDF → attach the source permit PDFs for Premium tier. No aggregator, no manual spreadsheet, every report is a fresh upstream query with the dataset ID printed on the cover page so your title committee can confirm the source themselves.

Coverage list and per-metro validator addresses: see /coverage. Live adapter freshness per metro: /status. Order a Basic or Premium report: /order.