Healthy Communities
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Healthy Communities

American communities are ravaged by opioids, families are fearful about basic safety, and parents are forced to fight against a radical transgender movement that rejects fundamental truths about human biology and pushes children down a path of despair. After decades of our civic foundations being hollowed out, the Center for Renewing America is committed to defeating these societal poisons and reviving the health of our communities. 

This fight begins with support of intact families, where fathers, mothers, and guardians are present and responsible for the education, growth, moral grounding, and civic duty instilled in their children. 

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Primer: A Family First Vision to Lower Housing Costs

Housing affordability is not a technical problem to be tweaked at the margins of credit markets; it is a structural test of whether the United States still builds in proportion to its aspirations.

Primer: Reducing the Costs of Real Food for Families

The animating concern of this series of primers is the future of healthy family formation. It is a central purpose of government to cultivate a country in which citizens can marry, have children, and remain married. The financial obstacles to that way of life are addressed throughout the series. Here we address rising food costs.

Primer: Drawing the Line Around Innocence in the Generative AI Age

The escalation of harms to children enabled by generative AI demands a national legal framework that balances enforcement rigor with constitutional safeguards.

Primer: Family Formation and Child-Care Policies

The child-care affordability crisis, then, is best understood not as a failure to subsidize enough institutional care, but as a failure to sustain an economy ordered toward family life.