The Shared Prosperity Partnership—a collaboration of the Urban Institute, The Kresge Foundation, and the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program—convenes local leaders in select communities across the United States to discuss challenges to inclusive growth and provide data, research, and access to national experts, networks, and financial resources.

Nationally, the Partnership elevates promising models through publications, public forums, and peer learning opportunities to spark dialogue among practitioners and support evidence-based policy at the local and national levels. At a time of national challenge, the Shared Prosperity Partnership leverages the innovative work of local leaders across the United States to offer a hopeful vision for American civil society, economic competitiveness, and individual well-being

Shared Prosperity Partnership Projects at Urban

• Using Federal Economic Recovery Funds to Advance Local Inclusive Recovery Goals: This project is supporting local leaders in Chicago, Memphis, and Rochester on aligning federal economic recovery funds to local inclusive and equitable ecovery goals
• Opportunity for All : This project brought together Urban Institute scholars, community leaders, and national experts to identify innovative approaches for the federal government to help all neighborhoods become places of opportunity and inclusion.

Shared Prosperity Partnership Publications

• Building Shared Prosperity in America’s Cities: an introduction to the Shared Prosperity Partnership that provides a background on issues that cities are grappling with and includes an overview of three common principles that underlie strategies to ensure shared prosperity in cities.
• State Policies to Promote Shared Prosperity in Cities: a framing brief that highlights the policy challenges facing states and proposes three key areas where state and local collaboration could increase shared prosperity.
  
  
  • How States Can Support Shared Prosperity in Cities Through Affordable Rental Housing: In this brief, we discuss how state and local governments can more effectively partner to address rental housing affordability challenges in cities and how these policies could enable more families to prosper. In this brief, we discuss how state and local governments can more effectively partner to address rental housing affordability challenges in cities and why these policies could enable more families to prosper.
  • How States Can Support Shared Prosperity in Cities Through Quality Jobs: In this brief, we discuss how state and local governments can more effectively partner to grow quality jobs in cities.

• A Strategic Plan to Rebalance Power in Fresno for Inclusive and Equitable Growth: This essay describes how the Shared Prosperity Partnership supported local leaders in Fresno in developing a 10-year inclusive economic development plan
• Gauging Investment Patterns Across US: With this tool, search for a city, county, or state to see how it compares with its peers in how much investment it receives and how equitably capital is distributed across neighborhoods with different racial and income demographics.
• Partnering with Businesses for Shared Prosperity: In this brief, we seek to better understand the role of the business sector in advancing inclusive growth and local shared prosperity by offering reflections on existing, formalized business partnerships and identifying strategies for local leaders to engage business partners.
• Determining In-Lieu Fees in Inclusionary Zoning Policies: This brief has two goals. The first is to help local decisionmakers determine whether to include an in-lieu fee option in their inclusionary zoning ordinances. The second is to help local decisionmakers understand what variations of in-lieu fees exist and how to structure in-lieu fees.
• Equity Trade-Offs in the Design of COVID 19 Emergency Assistance: In this brief, we share lessons from interviews with local program leaders on how they considered equity and competing priorities when designing COVID 19 relief efforts for renters and small businesses.
• Chicago Housing Overview: Preserving Affordability and Expanding Accessibility: In this data chartbook, we provide a collection of data points and commentary describing Chicago’s housing market, past and present, with a focus on affordability, accessibility and racial equity. 

Related Research

• Inclusive Recovery in US Cities
• Financial Health of Residents
• The Cost of Segregation: National Trends and the Case of Chicago 1990–2010
• Scenarios for Regional Growth from 2010 to 2030
• Building the Next-Gen Federal Place-Based Program

Related Blog Posts

• Louisville is using zoning reform to tackle inequity. Could this work in other cities?
• How local philanthropy is addressing Fresno, California’s severe economic inequities
• What separates the most - and least-inclusive cities in the country?
• How Milwaukee can create more equitable investment flows