Trafficking needs a place: a massage storefront, a rented apartment, a motel room, a crowded labor house. Every one leaves a data trail in leases, business licenses, ads and payments. Survivors need a place too, and there aren't enough beds. This briefing maps both in every state.
States are shaded by hotline-identified trafficking cases per 100,000 residents. Each glow is a documented spa, apartment, hotel or labor-housing case, or a survivor-housing finding; red marks cases involving minors. Safe-house locations are never shown.
National counts and recent state cases, newest first.
A house needs a lease, a business license, utilities, ads and a way to take payment. The audit follows those records, through lawful requests and public sources, to find the places and the people behind them.
Illicit massage businesses that reopen under new names and owners. Business registrations and licensing boards show the pattern.
Residential brothels rented with fraud or forged documents. Leases and property records show who signed.
Short stays paid in cash or by third parties. Lodging records and complaints cluster by property.
Crowded houses tied to farms, restaurants and construction. Employer filings and housing inspections connect them.
Online commercial sex ads, about 1.95 million a month, tie phone numbers to addresses.
Cash deposits, payment apps and shell companies show who profits.
Hotline tips, ads, reviews and storefront patterns flag a location.
FAFO Apex Intel checks business, property and ad records against each other.
Findings go to the task force and law enforcement through an authorized handoff. BB2G never acts on a house itself.
Officers act, with advocates on site.
Survivors go to a safe house with a confirmed open bed.
Licensing, zoning and property actions keep the place from reopening.
Survivors who leave with nowhere to go often go back. South Carolina has under half the long-term beds it needs and none for men; Georgia's victim-services funding fell more than 60%.
Open beds across vetted providers, by type: minors, men, women, families. Counts only, no survivor identities.
Where victims are identified versus where beds exist, by county.
VOCA, federal trafficking grants and state funds traced from award to beds actually open.
Housing run with survivors, with case management, therapy, school and work.
Specialized beds for the groups with the fewest options.
Long-term recovery and co-housing that bridge shelter to independence.
A tip has to become a verified location, a referral, a rescue, a bed and a recovery plan. At 95% per handoff, only 36% of cases make it through. Move the sliders.
With BB2G, every handoff is confirmed; a check catches 99% of dropped or wrong handoffs and alerts a named person.
Rank 1 has the most hotline-identified trafficking cases per 100,000 residents in 2025. Select a column to re-sort.
Documented cases at trafficking venues and findings on survivor housing, newest first, each linked to its source. No victim is named and no safe house is located.
2025 hotline cases, illicit massage business counts where published, and every documented venue case in each jurisdiction.
How a place becomes a trafficking house, and the records that shut it down.
Start with the records, then build the beds.
Authorize a scoping session with the state task force and survivor-housing providers to set up the bed registry and storefront audit.