{"id":125,"date":"2024-02-26T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metroabundance.org\/?p=125"},"modified":"2024-12-02T06:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:04:56","slug":"hello-were-the-metropolitan-abundance-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metroabundance.org\/hello-were-the-metropolitan-abundance-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello! We\u2019re the Metropolitan Abundance Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cities are our greatest invention. They\u2019re the places where we transcend our individual limitations.<\/span><\/p>\n

When we think about our defining achievements, we think of places. In the arts, we celebrate the Harlem Renaissance and the Golden Age of Hollywood. It\u2019s impossible to tell the history of ideas leaving out fifth-century Athens or Enlightenment Edinburgh. Global prosperity now depends on the ferment underway in the Pearl River Delta and the San Francisco Bay Area. When you gather a lot of people together, competing and cooperating, we do amazing things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our goal at the Metropolitan Abundance Project (MAP) is to reinvigorate America’s cities through an urban abundance agenda. We reject the scarcity mindset that has held our metropolitan areas back. We believe plentiful housing, great transit, and effective governance are the keys to addressing our generation’s most pressing problems. We take a global perspective, married to a distinctly Californian sensibility: we believe that a better world is possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2017 California YIMBY has led on statewide pro-housing policy. Working with a broad coalition, we have passed dozens of laws making it easier to build housing, transforming the global discourse around planning along the way. But since we started this work, two things have become clear.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, as YIMBYism matures, we need a space to develop, track, exchange, and promote the movement’s best ideas. That includes both reforms from across the U.S. and international best practices from global cities like Tokyo, Medell\u00edn, and Auckland. Second, housing abundance is a necessary but not sufficient condition for helping cities thrive. We need abundance in all aspects of urban life: in public transportation, public amenities, and shared prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re starting MAP. Drawing on our on-the-ground advocacy and policymaking, we\u2019re building a policy center to develop and implement an urban abundance agenda. This includes:<\/span><\/p>\n