PourWatch reads building permits straight from 49 cities and counties (55 separate open-data feeds — some publish one per permit type). If your metro is on this list, you'll see new permits the morning after they're issued. If it isn't, the app has nothing to show you yet — so check here before you subscribe.
Paused means that city's portal has stopped publishing — their data, not ours. We keep watching and the metro comes back on its own when they resume. We'd rather tell you than quietly show you an empty list.
Coverage depends on whether your jurisdiction publishes permits as machine-readable open data — plenty still don't. Tell us where you work and we'll look; if a feed exists, adding it takes days, not months.
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