Vacancy Entry and Search Tool

This application allows the public to search for affordable housing vacancies in Minnesota. The hList application consists of two pieces:

• An application that allows landlords to advertise information about their affordable housing vacancies in Minnesota.
• A search tool that allows housing seekers to search these vacancies based on location, rent amount, bedroom size and other attributes.

The application was built for HousingLink. The search tool is publicly available; it can be viewed here.

Unique Features:

The data entry portion of the application uses some fairly sophisticated validation rules to prevent incorrect data. It also performs some data cleaning routines to make some address and name data consistent. The search tool features an embedded PDF report that includes only the selected records on a previous page.

Technology:

The hList application uses the following technologies:

• ASP.NET 2.0
• VB.NET
• SQL Server 2005
• SQL Server Reporting Services