Our country’s future is jeopardized by policies and institutions that create scarcity. Today’s politics allows small groups of objectors to block homebuilding in the middle of a housing shortage. It puts up barriers to renewable energy in the middle of a climate crisis. And it leaves us with a government too broken to meet the scale of the challenges our generation will face.
We refuse to inherit a future defined by scarcity. We are choosing instead to fight for a future where there is room for all of us—a future where the most important things in life are affordable, where the state has the capacity to build and deliver what people need, and where bad regulations don’t let those with opportunity hoard it from those who are chasing it.
We believe in a future of abundance, where stability, opportunity, and the means to build a good life are within reach for all.
The Campus Abundance Network brings together students to build community, grow leadership, and push for the policies and projects we need to deliver this future. Our generation has a right to a seat at the table and a role in deciding the future we will inherit.
To that end, we support the following goals:
- Removing cost-of-living barriers. Costs for essential goods like housing, healthcare, childcare, and energy keep rising because of limiting policies, like onerous zoning regulations and permitting processes. We are fighting to change those rules so we can increase the supply of homes, healthcare, childcare, energy and other necessities for a good life.
- Making government work. Too often, good projects, from clean energy to high-speed rail, get stuck because the systems meant to approve and implement them are outdated. We want to modernize government and rebuild state capacity for the 21st century, ensuring we have the people, processes, and tools for realizing ambitious policy goals.
- Meeting the moment: America faces a host of unsolved challenges, including the affordability crisis, climate change, industrial decline, and terminal and chronic disease. We support investment in bold ideas, breakthrough technologies, and renewed institutions to bring them to life—and hold the conviction that our best days are ahead.
We focus on three key areas of action:
- Organizing Students. We mobilize young people to learn about the movement, take action in their own communities, and fight for pro-abundance policies.
- Public Advocacy. We shape narratives through writing, testimony, public comment, social media, and the press—making the case for what’s broken, what’s possible, and why it matters.
- Community Building. This is a long fight. We cultivate a network of new leaders through political education, relationship-building, and deep investment in each other.
We are organizing a generation that knows these problems aren’t permanent or inevitable—and who are willing to put their energy toward solving them. We hope you join us.
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