How to check your HUD housing inspection results
Two different inspections answer to that phrase. HUD scores the whole property every one to three years, and that score is public. Your housing authority also inspects individual Section 8 units, and those results live somewhere else entirely. Here is where to find each one.
Your building's score: published by HUD, searchable here
Every property HUD assists gets a physical inspection on a recurring cycle, scored 0 to 100. HUD publishes the results in bulk data files, and this site indexes all of them: 329,924 inspections going back to 1998, covering 60,462 properties and 3,149 public housing authorities. The newest published inspection is from April 2026.
Three ways to find a building:
- Search it by name from the home page. Older HUD files spell names inconsistently, so try a shorter version of the name if the full one misses.
- Browse by state, then by city, or by housing authority if it is public housing.
- Paste a HUD property or development ID into the search box. If a HUD letter or notice gave you a number like 800009932, that resolves straight to the property's page.
What you get is the property's full scored history: the current number, every prior inspection, and how it sits against the rest of its state. If you have never read one of these scores before, start with what an NSPIRE score is and what a failing score means.
Your unit's Section 8 inspection: a different system
If you rent with a Housing Choice Voucher, the inspection you are probably waiting on is not HUD's property score. It is the unit inspection your local housing authority arranges before move-in and roughly annually after that, historically under Housing Quality Standards (HQS). HUD does not publish those results in its data files, so you will not find them here or anywhere else on the open web.
Where you will find them:
- If a contractor did the inspection, the notice names the contractor. Many housing authorities outsource unit inspections. One of the largest contractors, McCright & Associates, posts results on its own portal at results.mccright.com; you look yours up with the Event ID printed on the correspondence they sent you.
- Otherwise, ask the housing authority that issued the voucher. The inspection belongs to them, whoever performed it. Your caseworker can tell you whether the unit passed, what failed, and the deadline the landlord has to fix it. You can find your authority's HUD record by state here, which lists the developments it runs, but its phone number and voucher paperwork are on its own website.
Housing authorities are moving voucher-unit inspections onto the newer NSPIRE standards, but that changes the checklist, not the lookup: unit results still come from your housing authority or its contractor, not from HUD's published files.
Which result do you actually want?
- Checking out a building before you move in: the property score, on this site. It is the only inspection record you can see without being a tenant yet.
- Waiting on a pass so your lease can start: the unit inspection, from your housing authority or the contractor named on your notice.
- Bad conditions in a building you already live in: both are worth having. The unit inspection is the enforcement tool for your apartment; the property's published score history shows whether the problem is the whole building, which is useful context in any complaint.
Look up a property
Every score HUD has published is on this site, free. Search by name from the home page, or browse by state or by housing authority.