California’s best days are ahead.
We’re focused on building a better California—generating and supporting forward-looking ideas to improve affordability and quality of life for all Californians, while ensuring the state remains a center of innovation, good-paying jobs, and economic opportunity for decades to come.
The California Dream is worth fighting for
California has always been the place where people dream big and the future is built. It’s the birthplace of new ideas, new ways of thinking, and entirely new technologies and fields—from Silicon Valley to Hollywood, to our leadership in the sciences, clean energy, agriculture, and beyond.
But today, the California dream is drifting out of reach for many. It's getting harder and harder for working families, entrepreneurs, and businesses to live, grow, and thrive here.
Across the state, families are feeling the pressure of an uncertain economy, rising housing costs, and a lack of stable investment in schools and other essential public services—from roads, to wildfire prevention and clean energy projects, to hospitals and emergency response infrastructure.
Building a Better California is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(4) organization that supports thoughtful, forward-looking public policy that will advance the California dream for generations to come. We believe California’s future shines brightest when we prioritize and invest in what has always made the state a cultural and economic powerhouse: the unparalleled quality of life, the ability to dream big, build for the future, and innovate, and the promise of jobs and economic opportunity for all.
Our focus
We support policies that will improve the lives of Californians and help build a better, stronger California, by:
Expanding access to affordable housing for middle-class Californians
Cutting the red tape that stalls building of homes and much-needed infrastructure
Securing stable funding for public education so every Californian has the opportunity to learn and prepare for good-paying jobs
Requiring more transparency and trackable progress of state programs
Protecting innovation and ensuring that the state remains an engine of economic growth and high-paying jobs
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