Building a Unified Housing Strategy to Expand Economic Opportunity
The City of Spartanburg, FUSE, and Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) are working together to channel years of planning and partnership into coordinated action on housing. Spartanburg has a deep body of knowledge to draw on, including community engagement findings, a racial equity index, an economic mobility analysis, and an emerging... Read more
Establishing a Citywide Children’s Cabinet in Rochester
The City of Rochester, FUSE, and ROC the Future are working together to turn strong but informal collaboration into a formal structure for shared decision-making. ROC the Future, a mature cradle-to-career backbone organization, convenes more than 30 cross-sector partners around milestones like kindergarten readiness, third-grade reading, and high school graduation,... Read more
Delivering Missing-Middle Housing through Small-Scale Development
The City of Rogers and FUSE are working together to help Rogers move from policy readiness to real housing production. The City has already adopted a form-based code that allows a wider range of housing types and launched Pattern Zones, a publicly funded library of pre-approved designs for duplexes, accessory... Read more
Advancing a Mixed-Income Housing Department Pipeline in Spartanburg
The City of Spartanburg, FUSE, and Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) are working together to turn promising development sites and interested partners into real, financeable housing projects. Spartanburg's nationally recognized Northside revitalization shows what coordinated, place-based investment can achieve, and Movement 2030 offers a shared framework for economic mobility. SAM's research... Read more
Growing a Vibrant Economic Ecosystem in Downtown Fresno
The City of Fresno and FUSE are working together to help Downtown and Chinatown capture the full value of several major investments arriving at once. Chinatown has been a cultural and commercial hub since the 1870s, but redlining, racial covenants, and surrounding highways left these neighborhoods isolated and underinvested. Now,... Read more
Financial & Policy Analysis for Sustaining and Stabilizing Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Hotels
The City and County of San Francisco and FUSE are working together to stabilize roughly 20,000 Single-Room Occupancy (SRO) units in about 500 buildings across the City. SROs date back to San Francisco's earliest days, when single workers rented rooms with shared kitchens and baths, and the 1981 Hotel Conversion... Read more
Streamlining Lease-Up Processes to Accelerate Affordable Housing Access
The City and County of San Francisco and FUSE are working together to build on the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD)'s success with DAHLIA, the centralized platform where residents find and apply for affordable housing through a single application and lottery. After the lottery, though, leasing is... Read more
Missing Middle & Innovative Housing Delivery Models
The City and County of San Francisco and FUSE are working together to close a housing gap estimated at 82,000 units, with the largest shortfall for non-affluent households. Exclusionary zoning historically pushed lower-cost housing into the eastern and southern parts of the city while the north and west stayed low... Read more
Advancing Community Development Through Permanent Supportive Housing Implementation
The City of Louisville and FUSE are collaborating to accelerate the implementation of permanent supportive housing as a proven strategy to address chronic homelessness. FUSE Executive Fellow Stacy Shireman will engage stakeholders across housing, healthcare, philanthropy, and government to identify barriers to scaling permanent supportive housing (PSH), including fragmented funding... Read more
Revitalizing Neighborhoods Through Blight Reduction Strategies
The City of Tulsa and FUSE are working together to address blighted and vacant properties that undermine housing stability and economic growth, particularly in historically underserved neighborhoods. FUSE Executive Fellow Shelly Termini will conduct a comprehensive listening tour with city agencies, community organizations, and residents to identify systemic barriers, including... Read more