TransparentSF is now Transparent City
Now live in nine cities, with data all the way down to your block
Today TransparentSF becomes Transparent City, live in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Austin, Oakland, Seattle, Denver, and Cincinnati. Same mission, same deep read on the numbers, and a much bigger offering: what has been a monthly, citywide newsletter is becoming a weekly briefing built around where you actually live.
Four things are changing, and the last one needs a click from you.
You’ll get a weekly briefing instead of a monthly roundup, built from far more metrics and data than we’ve ever covered.
It’s tailored to you: what’s happening around your home, on your block, and in your district, not just across the whole city.
The name and the sender are changing. Your newsletter will now come from Transparent City instead of TransparentSF. If you don’t see it, check your spam or promotions folder and add us to your contacts.
Watch for a welcome email from Transparent City. This is the important one: you need to click the link in that email to set your location. No click, no briefing about your neighborhood, so please don’t skip it.
What about this Substack? We’re pivoting it to the nationwide view: posts that put cities side by side and ask what one place can learn from another. We’ll share more soon about what it took to get from one city to nine, and some of the stranger things we’ve found in the data along the way.
Want a city that’s not San Francisco, or know someone in Detroit or Austin who should see this? Send them to transparent.city.
Thank you for being here since the SF days. Come see your city at transparent.city.
Rob and Adam