Housing and Dangerous Buildings

Housing and Dangerous Buildings enforces City and State mandated codes relating to residential and commercial structures that are dangerous, substandard, blighted, or vacant. This division also enforces codes related to pests and mechanical noise through our environmental health section. Building inspections are performed for permit holders repairing or demolishing substandard structures.

Building owners are legally required to maintain their property to the standards set forth in the City Housing and Dangerous Building Codes. If a structure is to remain vacant for more than three months, the owner is required to pay a monitoring fee to the City. In addition, fines may be levied if the property is not clean and secure.

Information on the new Residental Housing Inspection program.

Common Code Violations

• Ceilings, roofs, vertical supports or other horizontal support that sag, split or buckle.
• Plumbing, electrical or mechanical hazards creating a danger to human health.
• Excessive infestations of rodents, cockroaches or other vector violations.
• Unsafe electrical outlets which present a clear and present danger of fire or electrocution.
• Un-inhabitable buildings due to a lack of care, cleanliness, or sanitary conditions.
• Defective or inadequate weather protection of exterior walls.

Use the online form to report a vacant structure that is a blight, conditions that violate the safety and habitability of a building, and residential vermin or other pest infestations. Or you can call the Code Enforcement Department at (916) 808-5948 weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Housing and Dangerous Buildings Links

• Notice and Order Process for Code Violations

• Housing and Dangerous Buildings Brochure (pdf)
  
• Residential Rental Housing Inspection Program

Attention City of Sacramento Multi-Unit Landlords & Property Owners!

If you are currently designating at least 25 percent of your apartment community in the City of Sacramento as non-smoking, including private patios and balconies, you could qualify to receive recognition.

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Open Housing and Dangerous Building Cases
(Updated Monthly)

• OPEN HOUSING & DANGEROUS BUILDING CASES AS OF 06-02-08
• OPEN HOUSING & DANGEROUS BUILDING CASES AS OF 06-02-08- This file is compatible with Adobe Acrobat 5 and all later versions.
  

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