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24 alternatives to Reveal- Water Bills Bleeding Them Dry

The soaring costs of water in NYC in low-income areas

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reveal- Water Bills Bleeding Them Dry launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1AI
An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data▲70
historically, rentals in NYC have been pretty wild. the median 1BR in West Village as of July 2025 cost $5,750/month. about a month ago, NYC passed a law to ban broker fees which many predicted would have increased rents. I realized I had access to some original data from a previous project so I built a dashboard to help me visualize the changes and see for myself. you can filter by neighborhoods, bedrooms, original source where the rentals were posted, and select a timeframe. this is still a work in progress, so apologies in advance for any issues you encounter. I would love any…
2025 · leaseswap.nyc · its alternatives →
2
Detroit Water Project▲130
Connects donors to unpaid water bills
2015 · its alternatives →
3SO
Sonification of Income Inequality on the NYC Subway▲15
2015 · datadrivendj.com · its alternatives →
4
Puddle▲93
Borrow money easily and cheaply from your community.
2014 · its alternatives →
5
Vox's The Weeds - Gentrification, a budget deal, and the decline of floating voters▲59
The good and bad of gentrification + swing voting
2015 · its alternatives →
6
Seeking Wisdom: Why Millennials Need To Carry The Water▲60
Lessons to help accelerate your learning.
2016 · its alternatives →
7
Exponent - Competing Against Non-Consumption▲63
Apple's earnings and Twitter's troubles
2016 · its alternatives →
8
Subspotting▲65
Visualizing available cell phone coverage on the NYC subway
2016 · its alternatives →
9AS
A status dashboard for the NYC power grid▲54
2012 · nycpowerstatus.com · its alternatives →
10AH
A housesharing vs. affordability map we made for London▲15
2014 · splittable.co · its alternatives →
11
Open Loans Project▲63
An open data set for student loans.
2014 · its alternatives →
12DT
Density – The Heartbeat of a City▲57
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
13
99% Invisible - The Magic Bureaucrat▲62
How overgeneralized correlational data influenced US welfare
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Reveal - Do not drink: The water crisis in Flint, Michigan▲61
How Flint, MI went from trusting tap water to fearing it
2016 · its alternatives →
15
Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything- New York After Rent▲1
The AirBnb economy in New York
2015 · its alternatives →
16SA
Spendy – a simple money tracker (iOS app)▲59
2014 · dl.dropboxusercontent.com · its alternatives →
17SD
Swift Demand – A Basic Income Experiment▲16
2017 · swiftdemand.com · its alternatives →
18SA
SpendTree – A tool to analyze income properties▲50
2015 · spendtree.com · its alternatives →
19
Stacks▲83
Make it rain real money on your friends using Venmo
2014 · its alternatives →
20
Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars▲65
An urban transformation is underway
2016 · its alternatives →
21
99% Invisible: Public Works: Rethinking America’s Transportation Infrastructure▲66
Roads? Where we're going ... we need better roads!
2016 · its alternatives →
22
The Zero-Sum Society▲61
Distribution and the possibilities for economic change
2016 · its alternatives →
23
Money Trail▲72
Venmo analytics. See who your friends are paying.
2015 · its alternatives →
24ET
Exploring the US Budget, 1962-2019▲69
2014 · learnforeverlearn.com · its alternatives →

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