Pillar · Coalitions
Coalitions
Bipartisan, state, and national initiatives aligning working class communities, capital markets, and Capitol Hill.
Why LSI convenes
A working-class future gets built where place, capital, and policy meet.
The American Dream is a working-class project. Its prospects rely on three forces.
- Place. The communities where families actually live and work.
- Capital. Whether private markets reach those places or write them off.
- Policy. The institutional architecture that defines who gets a shot and on what terms.
LSI runs coalitions where those forces meet to build the next generation of working-class mobility, arm-in-arm.
The coalitions
Current Initiatives
Learn more about each forum.
National Renter Wealth Coalition
The table where renters, housing capital, and housing lawmakers sit together.
44 million American households rent. For a growing share, rent is the end of the American Dream, not a step toward it. The NRWC is a standing forum where working-class renter leaders, housing investors and lenders, employers, state housing officials, and federal lawmakers develop what renter wealth, rental supply, and the path from renter to owner should look like in working-class places. LSI anchors the conversation in the Renter Wealth Index and the Housing research portfolio.
- Question
- How does the American Dream reach the 44M renter households?
- At the table
- Renters, housing capital, employers, state and federal officials
- Research anchor
- LSI Housing portfolio · Renter Wealth Index
State Employee Ownership Caucus
The table where state lawmakers of both parties, retiring owners, and the working-class employees who built the business meet.
2.9 million American businesses will change hands over the next decade. Who they change hands to is the question the State EO Caucus exists to answer. It is a bipartisan standing forum where state legislators, retiring business owners, working-class employees, employee-ownership practitioners, and the communities that host these firms develop what a working-class transition agenda should look like, state by state. LSI anchors the conversation in the Employee Ownership research portfolio and 535 Insights.
- Question
- Who ends up owning the businesses working-class employees built?
- At the table
- State lawmakers, owners, employees, practitioners
- Research anchor
- LSI Employee Ownership portfolio · 535 Insights
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Monthly briefings on where each LSI coalition is taking the conversation, who is at the table, and the working-class mobility questions the rooms are working through this quarter.