BIG IDEAS. COMMON GROUND. LASTING CHANGE.
HEALTH & CARE PROPOSAL
The full Lyra idea: specialty and community care, a future hospital, homes, training and childcare—with a $500 million example and a practical path through Merced County.
The Lyra campus vision. Conceptual illustration; geography, facilities and partnerships are not confirmed.
A REFERENCE, NOT A NEWS CYCLE
Care, training and workforce housing—considered together in Santa Nella.
A future rail connection from Santa Nella to Pleasanton: reuse the western-valley corridor, connect with ACE and Valley Link, and build toward access to California high-speed rail.
Timely support that helps households build their own stability.
Make better tools translate into capability, income or time.
See what households pay—and what public services deliver.
EVIDENCE BEFORE ALLEGIANCE
We examine ideas by the difference they could make in people’s lives—and keep the costs, tradeoffs and unanswered questions in view.
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