Fleetwood Rice — HUD inspection scores

Public housing · 1605 20th St, Northport, AL 35476

Latest published score NSPIRE
23 Failing
out of 100 Inspected August 4, 2025

Scores higher than 1% of Alabama’s 715 currently scored properties · state median 93

Under NSPIRE, a score below 60 is failing; 60–79 puts a property on a more frequent inspection cycle.

What a failing score sets in motion

HUD refers a failing development for enforcement: the owner surveys what the inspection found, corrects it, and documents both back to HUD. Inspections speed up too — scoring below 80 already means a roughly annual cycle. A failing score does not by itself close a building, end its subsidy, or mean anyone has to move; most failing properties are re-inspected and recover. More on failing scores.

This development’s physical score also rolls uphill into HA Northport’s own assessment by HUD — its full portfolio shows how many of its developments are failing at once.

If you live here: conditions in your unit go first to the housing authority that runs it. If that goes nowhere, HUD’s Public and Indian Housing customer service line is 1-800-955-2232. A voucher unit’s own inspection is a separate system — check your own results.

100 80 60 0 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 HUD replaced REAC scoring with NSPIRE in 2023. Scores on either side of this line come from different standards and are not directly comparable. REAC → NSPIRE · 2023 October 1, 2014 — scored 89 (REAC (UPCS)) May 31, 2016 — scored 97 (REAC (UPCS)) September 11, 2019 — scored 89 (REAC (UPCS)) May 26, 2022 — scored 97 (REAC (UPCS)) August 4, 2025 — scored 23 (NSPIRE)
Scores as published by HUD. NSPIRE (2023–) and REAC (2000–2023) scores come from different standards and are not directly comparable.
Inspection date Score Standard
August 4, 2025 23 NSPIRE
May 26, 2022 97 REAC (UPCS)
September 11, 2019 89 REAC (UPCS)
May 31, 2016 97 REAC (UPCS)
October 1, 2014 89 REAC (UPCS)

HUD's published files sample the record: each snapshot carries a property's latest score at publication, so an inspection can be missing between snapshots, and no inspections conducted 2010–2012 appear in any file HUD still publishes. History here is assembled from every file HUD offers.