New York gets a concrete abundance agenda

Last week, Abundance NY put out The Abundance Agenda, a roadmap to, well, Abundance for New Yorkers. I’m a fan of just how concrete the document is, both in terms of the big picture and the small. On the big picture, the agenda lays out some very specific ten-year goals: reduce capital project cost overruns and schedule delays by half, build 500,000 new homes, double average bus speeds city-wide. But it also zooms in to the small details that add up to big change: challenge-based procurement, pre-approved template plans for common building types, pre-emption of local authority to de-facto ban solar projects, and so on. This Abundance Agenda is tailored to New York - it has recommendations related to scaffolding and trash pickup - but it would be great to see more local orgs put together wide ranging roadmaps to abundance, tailored to their own local needs.