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V. Housing Inspection Services

QUICK FACTS
• Over 11,500 inspections conducted with
over 950 conducted monthly and over 45
inspections occurred daily.
• Over 2,000 of the inspections conducted were
of apartment buildings and/or residential hotels
of the more than 18,000 properties in the City.
• Over 4,500 complaints received with majority
found to be non-hazard and over 90%
responded to within three business days.
• Over 200 life hazard and 300 heat complaints
received with 92% responded to within one
business day.

Housing Inspection Services (HIS) implements
and enforces the San Francisco Housing Code
and pertinent related City Codes. HIS establishes
and maintains minimum maintenance standards for
existing residential buildings to safeguard life, limb,
health, property, and public welfare by conducting
periodic health and safety inspections and responding
to tenant complaints. HIS is also responsible for
the Code Enforcement Outreach Program which is
designed to provide support to tenants, owners and
the Department of Building Inspection, so that the City
and the community work together to bring housing
into code compliance, and thus improve safety and
habitability.

• Over 450 properties were sent to Director’s
Hearings for code enforcement processing.
• Over 4,000 properties receiving Notice of
Violations abated them.

IN REVIEW
Code Enforcement Focus Area
In response to deadly fires that occurred in early 2015, HIS developed the Code Enforcement Focus Area
program to concentrate routine inspection efforts in more densely populated neighborhoods that included
the Mission, Chinatown and the Tenderloin. HIS tracks the results of these code enforcement efforts in
collaboration with pertinent city agencies, and DBl's CEOP partners.

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