In plain English
It lets someone place a reported housing problem into a general kind. The choice shows which category the problem fits into, rather than giving a full description. The exact categories can vary.
In context
Here, "issue type" asks the resident to choose which category their maintenance problem belongs to.
- Situation
- Setting up utilities and submitting maintenance, repair, and access requests
- What it communicates
- asks the resident to classify the maintenance problem.
Meaning limits
By itself, the term identifies only the kind of housing problem being reported, not any further details about it.
Examples
“The issue type was "electrical," but the description said only that the bathroom light kept flickering.”
“When the resident reported a broken radiator, she chose "heating" as the issue type.”