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Throughout this series, we have explored how California can ensure that essential goods and services reach the people who need them. Across housing, food, energy, education, and care, one question connects these challenges: How can we ensure that the people most affected by public problems play a central role in shaping solutions?

Three policy experts explore how California can expand access to childcare, healthcare, and eldercare through abundance policy design.

California researchers propose abundance-oriented policy solutions to make quality education, jobs, and internet access accessible for everyone.

Designing abundance into policy: creating opportunities to improve the supply, distribution, and allocation of food, water, and safety to meet basic needs.

Designing “abundance” into Californians' lives means policies that challenge the status quo and re-examine how, what, why and where we build.

California is a state of immigrants. Research shows how current state and federal policies are affecting immigrant communities and California as a whole.

Communities, labor, and government will each play a role in building the 2.5 million homes that Californians need.

Across California, communities and developers are coming to the negotiating table in an effort to distribute prosperity. Community Benefits Agreements can help.

What tradeoffs are Californians willing to make for the future they want? New public opinion data reveals possible paths forward.

How can government and diverse communities work better, together? Here’s a step-by-step framework to help make it happen.