PILOT Agreements through the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County.

All Permits within the City of Chattanooga applied for to the Development Review and Permitting Office of Public Works.

Business license information from 1990 to current date.

Chattanooga city parcel data contains data on all parcels within the City of Chattanooga. Common interested data fields include information about the owner of the property, sale and appraisal values, and general information on the parcel itself. For a complete understanding of the fields and their values, please reference the attached PDF.

The dataset contains all instances of "letters" being created within the Cityview system related to code violations.

Data on all 504 and 7A loans for Chattanooga from 2000 to the Present provided by the Federal Small Business Administration.

Code enforcement cases for the City of Chattanooga from 1999 to present date.

All Permit inspections within the City of Chattanooga performed by the Development Review and Permitting Office of Public Works.

The Federal government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation between 1935 and 1940, used data and evaluations organized by local real estate professionals--lenders, developers, and real estate appraisers--in each city, assigned grades to residential neighborhoods that reflected their "mortgage security" that would then be visualized on color-coded maps. Neighborhoods receiving the highest grade of "A"--colored green on the maps--were deemed minimal risks for banks and other mortgage lenders when they were determining who should received loans and which areas in the city were safe investments. Those receiving the lowest grade of "D," colored red, were considered "hazardous."

Conservative, responsible lenders, in HOLC judgment, would "refuse to make loans in these areas [or] only on a conservative basis." HOLC created area descriptions to help to organize the data they used to assign the grades. Among that information was the neighborhood's quality of housing, the recent history of sale and rent values, and, crucially, the racial and ethnic identity and class of residents that served as the basis of the neighborhood's grade. These maps and their accompanying documentation helped set the rules for nearly a century of real estate practice that has systematically disenfranchised communities of color.