State abundance agendas

One thing we’ve been tracking is the proliferation of state and local abundance agendas. In the last year, we’ve seen Abundance New York publish a detailed policy roadmap across housing, transit, energy, and governance; Governor Newsom sign a package of housing and permitting reforms under the banner of the “California Abundance Agenda”; Abundant Housing Massachusetts put together a legislative agenda for the current session; Utah’s Office of Energy Development launch Operation Gigawatt, a statewide plan to address growing energy demand; and a recent ChinaTalk episode covered what an abundance playbook looks like for semiconductor reshoring. Finally, Inclusive Abundance is accepting proposals for their federal abundance agenda through June 18.

These vary a lot in scope, specificity, and political orientation, and we’re not endorsing every item in any of them, but the pattern itself is notable: “abundance” is becoming a shared vocabulary across very different political contexts, and concrete policy agendas are starting to follow. Are there other state or local abundance agendas in development that we should know about? We’re thinking about keeping a running directory, and we’d love to hear what we’re missing!