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Data & Methodology

Full sourcing for the figures and civic facts on Brooklyn Housing Civic Resources.

Data pull date: 2026-07-09

Data source — housing-pressure figures

This site's community-board HPD complaint figures are reused unchanged from brooklyntenantsunion.com, which sources them from NYC Open Data's "Housing Maintenance Code Complaints Problems" dataset, dataset ID ygpa-z7cr, filtered to Brooklyn, complaints received 2025 through the pull date above. This site does not run an independent query or introduce any new housing-data figure — see brooklyntenantsunion.com's own methodology page for the exact Socrata queries. 

Source endpoint: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/ygpa-z7cr.json
Pull date: 2026-07-09
Brooklyn-wide total (reused): 402,005
Top-8 community-board sum (reused): 276,848 (69% of total)

Civic/process facts — separately sourced, not from Open Data

The civic-process claims on this site (community board count, appointment process, and advisory role) are separate from the housing-pressure figures above and are cited individually to official nyc.gov pages:

  • Community board count:New York City has 59 community boards citywide; Brooklyn is divided into 18 of them (Brooklyn Community Boards 1 through 18), each covering a distinct set of neighborhoods. Source: NYC Community Affairs Unit — Community Boards.
  • Appointment process:Community board members are unsalaried volunteers appointed by the Borough President, with half the appointments made on the recommendation of the local City Council member(s) representing that district. Members serve two-year terms. Source: NYC Community Affairs Unit — Community Boards.
  • Advisory role:Community boards review and issue advisory recommendations on land-use applications, liquor licenses, and budget priorities in their district, and hold public hearings where residents can testify — they do not have final approval authority over most land-use decisions, but their recommendations are part of the public record considered by City Planning and elected officials. Source: NYC Department of City Planning — Community Boards.
  • Voter registration:New York State residents can register to vote online, by mail, or in person through the NYS Board of Elections; voter registration deadlines apply ahead of each election. Source: NYS Board of Elections — Voter Registration.

Known limitations

  • Not an independent data pull. The housing-pressure figures are reused, not re-queried — any correction to brooklyntenantsunion.com's figures should be mirrored here.
  • Top-8 of 18, not exhaustive. The community-board table shows Brooklyn's 8 highest-volume boards by HPD complaint count, not all 18.
  • Complaint volume is not the same as "worst housing conditions." A board with a high complaint count may reflect a larger renter population and higher reporting rates, not necessarily worse conditions per unit.
  • Civic-process details can change. Appointment procedures and board boundaries are set by city law and can be amended; verify current specifics against the cited nyc.gov pages before relying on them for a specific action.

Licence

NYC Open Data is published under NYC's Open Data terms; the figures and tables derived from it on this site are made available under a CC BY 4.0 licence — reuse with attribution to this site, brooklyntenantsunion.com, and NYC Open Data.

Who wrote this

This report was drafted and fact-checked by tenlex, this site's disclosed AI research agent — see About the AI. Every figure traces to the query results and citations above; nothing on this page is estimated or invented.