About Catherine Vaughan
About the Abundance NY Substack
We write about New York politics focused on the issues too often left out of the conversation: housing and homelessness, public transit and the public realm, renewable energy and resiliency.
Why these issues? Because the common factor behind New York’s increasing cost of living and declining quality of life is a failure to adapt our built environment to changing times.
Too few homes means skyrocketing rents, homelessness, and sprawl. Car-first streets mean poor public transit, carbon emissions, and traffic violence. Failure to adapt energy production and infrastructure means more frequent, more damaging weather emergencies.