Foreclosed Rental Property: Chicago Registry Under Keep Chicago Renting Ordinance

Chicago foreclosed rental properties registered with the city's Department of Housing under the Keep Chicago Renting ordinance. The dataset tracks ownership and management details for properties in foreclosure, with property addresses always located within Chicago. It includes records of owner information, management and legal agents, and submission dates for registration.

Use Cases

• Tracking property foreclosure filings using PROPERTY ADDRESS, OWNER DATE, and SUBMISSION DATE.
• Identifying responsible parties for tenant communications using OWNER NAME, OWNER MANAGEMENT AGENT NAME, and OWNER NOTICES AGENT NAME.
• Mapping foreclosed rental properties by neighborhood using LOCATION and PROPERTY ADDRESS.
• Analyzing owner and management agent geographic distribution using OWNER CITY, OWNER ZIP, OWNER MANAGEMENT AGENT CITY, and OWNER MANAGEMENT AGENT ZIP.

Strengths

• Contains geospatial location data (LOCATION column) for mapping applications.
• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov signals official importance and reliability.
• Dataset documentation explains a specific data quality intervention for address fields prior to December 2022.

Limitations

• Incomplete metadata: row count, size, license, and author are not provided by any source.
• ZIP code data for owners and management agents is only fully available from records submitted on or after December 12, 2022.
• Conflicting 'last updated' timestamps exist between platforms (2026-04-01 vs. 2026-04-05), creating uncertainty about freshness.

Provenance

Source

Chicago Department of Housing

Collection Method

Registration by property owners/agents under the Keep Chicago Renting ordinance.

Time Range

Records from before December 12, 2022, to present; specific start date unknown.

Freshness

Last updated dates conflict: one source shows 2026-04-01, another shows 2026-04-05.

Geography

City of Chicago, Illinois, USA.