The Abundance Agenda
New York is far less affordable, equitable, and sustainable than we need it to be. The common threat to increasing costs and declining quality of life is a failure to adapt our built environment to changing times. Instead of growing resources for everyone, we fight over the scraps.
But changing that is in our hands. The Abundance Agenda is about making more than enough of everything New Yorkers need in order to lower our cost of living, improve our quality of life, and advance our safety and security.
Housing and Homelessness
The problem: Decades of under-supplying new housing have led to sky-high rent prices, homelessness, displacement, segregation, and sprawl
The solution: Abundant housing of all kinds will mean no New Yorker will be rent-burdened or stuck. Anyone who wants to come here will be able to. No one will live in shelter or on the street
Public Transit and Public Space
The problem: Car-first streets deny resources to mass transit, micro-mobility, and a people-first public realm—while driving emissions and traffic deaths
The Solution: Abundant mass transit, micro-mobility, and clean, green streets, so that every community is joyful and safe for travel and play
Renewable Energy and Resiliency
The problem: As weather emergencies become more frequent and severe, critical renewable energy and resiliency projects are blocked
The solution: Abundant green energy and resiliency infrastructure to free us from carbon emissions, weather emergencies, and the adverse health impacts of pollution
More New Yorkers.
More New York.
This agenda is popular, but it is blocked by a mismatch in preferences between everyday New Yorkers and the politically empowered.
Further, insufficient government capacity prevents the delivery of these goods when our administrators and legislators agree to pursue them.
But we’re changing this!