About
West Campus is a market where the buyers turn over completely every two years and the sellers remember everything. This is an attempt to give the buyers a memory.
A student signs two or three leases in a lifetime. The operators on the other side of the table are concentrated national companies running revenue-management software — some of them the subject of federal antitrust enforcement. Every channel a student could use to choose well is compromised: incentivized tour reviews inflate the ratings, genuine complaints get flagged and deleted, code violations are invisible at the decision moment, and the price is quoted in a deliberately incomparable unit.
The West Campus Integrity Index is a scorecard built the way politicalintegrity.us grades Congress: pick one accountability unit, grade every instance of it by the same public rules, back every grade with primary-source receipts, and run the whole thing off an automated pipeline so it doesn't decay when its authors graduate.
What this is not
- Not a review site. User-submitted reviews inherit the exact capture problem we're routing around.
- Not anti-landlord. When every building shows 4.6 stars, an honestly well-run one can't signal it. Clearing the noise rewards good operators.
- Not a legal authority. We reproduce public records and report patterns. We link the rules and the reporting channels; we don't adjudicate.
Correction channel
Operators and residents who believe a record is wrong or missing context can submit a correction, and our response will be posted. Same rules for everyone requires it.
Correction submission form — coming with launch.
Building on others' work
This federates with, rather than competes with, the student-built efforts already in this space — including RateMyRentUT's crowdsourced rent data and the University Tenants' Union's advocacy. It adds what neither has: automated public-records pipelines, review forensics, and the operator graph.