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.

Primer: Age-Verification for Children's Online Safety

August 3, 2026 | by Jon Hovance

To protect American children, the federal government should adopt an age-verification scheme for adult websites, and states should enact age-verification requirements for social media.

Dominion of the Made: AI, America, and the Stewardship of What Comes Next

May 20, 2026 | by Colin Redemer

The task before us is to develop AI aggressively while binding it to a framework rooted in the American tradition, which is itself rooted in Christian anthropology. This paper surveys the landscape and proposes a path.

Primer: Family and Future Series Savings Compendium

May 5, 2026 | by CRA Staff

The American dream is not abstract or out of reach; it is something that can be achieved and maintained through intentional, sustainable actions. When families are strong, society is strong. When society is strong, the nation is strong.

Primer: Reducing Household Utility Costs

April 24, 2026 | by CRA Staff

By breaking the back of the administrative state—defunding the FCC’s slush funds, stripping the DOE’s appliance authority, and legally removing the EPA’s climate mandates—hundreds of dollars per year can be returned to American households, lowering essential household utility bills.

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Primer: Reducing Transportation Costs for American Families

March 26, 2026 | by CRA Staff

The path to reliable and affordable transportation does not run through more federal spending, heavier top-down regulation, climate extremism, or capitulation to union bosses. It requires dismantling the administrative hurdles that inflate costs, restrict choice, and punish the working class.

Primer: A Family First Vision to Lower Housing Costs

March 18, 2026 | by Benjamin Osborne

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

March 16, 2026 | by Paige Hauser

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

March 10, 2026 | by Benjamin Osborne

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