Landscape Analysis
Drawing from interviews with organizations in the abundance ecosystem, we offer our view of notable successes and future opportunities.
Read analysis (PDF)The Abundance Landscape illustrates the diversity of abundance-oriented organizations pushing for a new way to solve some of the biggest challenges facing Americans today.
Drawing from interviews with organizations in the abundance ecosystem, we offer our view of notable successes and future opportunities.
Read analysis (PDF)Serve the public interest as a watchdog group for the government agencies tasked with managing land use issues, and operate independently of partisan politics.
Cutting-edge think tank advancing creative, equitable, and fiscally responsible solutions to NYC's most challenging problems.
Through education and advocacy, we seek to impact the public conversation
Organizing a new generation of civic leaders to build a 21st-century government.
Push for housing and against homelessness, for more vibrant public transit and public spaces, for renewable energy and resilience infrastructure, and for more effective government delivery of all of the above.
Dedicated to making Los Angeles County a more affordable, diverse, and vibrant region where everyone can afford a place to live.
Identifying pro-housing changemakers, building the power of local organizers, and connecting a statewide network.
Advocates for laws and regulations that make it easier to build homes across the state.
Focus on reforming outdated regulations and bureaucratic barriers that restrict the creation of diverse, affordable homes and keep smaller, local developers from participating in the market.
All-volunteer grassroots urbanist organization focused on building an Austin for everyone by improving land use and transportation through policy analysis, public involvement, and political engagement.
Building a movement of people who fight for more affordable, inclusive, vibrant communities.
CPE works with local and state government agencies, advocacy organizations, researchers and academics to support successful design and implementation of public goods programs.
San Diego-based think tank that produces research and advocates for transit, safe streets, and sustainable growth at the state and local level.
Community Solutions is a nonprofit that leads Built for Zero, a movement of more than 100 cities and counties using data to radically change how they work and the impact they can achieve — and proving that it is possible to make homelessness rare and brief.
Works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities. and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests, and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.
Connect emerging leaders into full-time government jobs and provide the training, mentorship, and community they need to build the skills to lead while sparking a lifelong commitment to public service.
Supports state and local governments across the country in designing and implementing solutions to pressing social problems.
Inform, engage, and influence the public and policy makers to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing throughout Greater Washington.
Inform, engage, and influence the public and policy makers to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing throughout Greater Washington.
Advocates for building more homes at all levels of affordability to help alleviate the Bay Area and California's housing shortage, displacement, and affordability crisis.
Coalition of organizations united around a common vision that everyone benefits when all Granite Staters have an affordable place to call home.
Conducts innovative applied research, working with cities to take on critical challenges of urban living.
Champions resilient forests, clean waters, and healthy communities across the Southern Blue Ridge.
Stands up for secure, abundant homes for everyone in the Twin Cities.
Grassroots network of neighbors advocating for more homes.
Develops permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for everyday neighbors, advocates to address structural inequities and meet community needs, and supports neighbors in building the community they want to live in.
Help cities identify and implement innovative strategies to leverage public assets and fund public infrastructure for public benefit, with a focus on supporting inclusive and equitable growth.
A research, planning, and advocacy organization that operates in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It oversees the DesegregateCT Program, which is a pro-homes coalition of neighbors and nonprofits that will be hosting the YIMBYtown 2025 Conference.
Funding, supporting, and connecting high-impact community organizations, partnering with government, and advocating for what works so that New York City can be an engine of upward mobility for all.
Through research, education, and advocacy, SPUR works to create an equitable, sustainable, and prosperous region.
Advocates for policy reforms that lead to an abundance of homes in all shapes and sizes.
Builds grassroots support and political power to address housing insecurity in the Tetons.
Equip leaders with practical policy solutions, arguments to advance them, and unusual coalitions to win them.
In collaboration with utilities, state and local governments, environmental and community groups, businesses, national laboratories, federal agencies, and other energy experts, SWEEP promotes programs, policies, and funding to help mitigate climate change and its impacts, lend support to underserved and disadvantaged communities, and save people money on energy bills and transportation costs.
Advocate for cities of all sizes to be safe, livable and inviting. We elevate local government as the highest level of collaboration for people working together in a place, not merely the lowest level in a hierarchy of governments.
Advocates for changes in law to make it easier to build more housing in Texas in proximity to daily needs, resulting in greater affordability, lower tax burdens for homeowners, and lower environmental costs.
Create common sense solutions to problems that face everyday Texans.
Uses a combination of neighborhood-level grassroots organizing and citywide advocacy to push for changes in public policy, street design, enforcement, and resource allocation that transform our city's streets for the better.
Leveraging applied research and community-building to promote government policies that expand California's capacity to sustainably supply essential resources, goods, and services to its people.
We advocate for a vital kind of Littleton: convenient, connected communities...; walking and rolling-friendly neighborhoods...; and abundantly available housing that's within reach of all kinds of people.
Nonpartisan organization of over 40 faith communities that organize together to build power to improve the lives of our families, communities, regions, and nation.
Helps state and local governments recruit, retain, and empower the next wave of public servants, ensuring better services and a stronger America.