One day. Shared language. Shared understanding. Shared 30-day commitments.

Local Housing Strategy

An effective housing strategy requires community alignment. We can help your team bring together local government, business, philanthropy, and non-profits to craft a strategy and execute it. We’ll help to educate, inspire, and assign roles and responsibilities for needed community change.

Pricing and Timing: 90-day sprints from $18,000, 1-year overhauls from $60,000, 6–10 week lead time

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See The Big Picture

It’s the right fit…

For these roles:

  • Regional planning commissions and councils of government

  • Community foundations with active housing portfolios

  • Chambers of commerce leading housing or workforce initiatives

  • Mayor's offices and county executive offices with housing mandates

  • Coalitions of nonprofits, cities, and funders coming together on regional housing

  • State agencies convening regional technical assistance work

With these conditions:

  • Community embarking on a new housing plan.

  • Foundation committing to a multi-year housing strategy and looking to align grantees and community partners.

  • Regional housing crisis making local headlines

  • New county or city executive with a housing mandate

  • Funder requires backbone capacity before further grants can flow

This workshop was designed to address these challenges:

Our planning department and community stakeholders keep having the same housing conversation without making progress.

Stakeholders can't agree on the scope of the problem, let alone the solution.

A foundation has seeded housing work but it's fragmented across grantees with no shared framework.

A plan exists to solve our housing issue but momentum keeps dying in committee.

Your mayor or executive is ready to lead but needs a coalition behind them.

What You Get

  • 2-hour pre-workshop planning call

  • Optional pre-workshop participant survey—recommended for groups over 25

  • Full-day (or 2-day) facilitated workshop with custom materials

  • Data brief, interactive exercises, and visual tools (Flywheel framing, Pace & Scale calibration, coalition mapping)

  • Post-workshop summary report with explicit 30-day action commitments from participants

  • 30-day follow-up coaching call

Investment

  • From $22,500 (full day)

  • 6–8 week lead time

How It Works

  • Ryan meets with the convenor to understand the coalition, the stakes, the friction, and the desired outcome. If we're not the right move, we say so on the call.

  • We send a written proposal with format (full day vs. multi-day), attendance target, and fixed price. Contract plus 40% deposit to lock the date.

  • Two to four planning sessions to customize the agenda, surface the political terrain, and align on what success looks like.

  • Flywheel leads the session. Participants leave with shared language, shared facts, and explicit 30-day commitments — in writing.

  • A 60-minute coaching call with the convenor 30 days later to review what's moved, what hasn't, and what's next.

Common Questions

  • Ideal is 20–40 people representing the full decision-making geometry — cities, counties, CDCs, funders, builders, employers. Under 15 and you're missing voices; over 50 and dynamics shift. We've run sessions as small as 12 and as large as 65.

  • The full-day format is designed for in-person. Interactive exercises don't translate well to video. We can run a half-day virtual adaptation for $12,000 when in-person isn't feasible, but the outcomes are meaningfully weaker.

  • This is common — and often exactly why the workshop works. The pre-workshop planning sessions surface the conflict honestly. The workshop gives the room a structured way to work through it instead of around it. We don't pretend conflict doesn't exist.

  • Three things, reliably: shared language (everyone leaves with the same vocabulary), shared facts (the data brief becomes a reference document), and shared 30-day commitments (explicit, in writing, named owners). Anything more — a funded initiative, a new policy, a capital campaign — depends on what your coalition does with those three things.

  • No. Regional workshops are almost always multi-stakeholder (10+ orgs); city-level workshops are usually single-organization (department leads, council, advisory board). Both formats exist — the pre-call determines which is right.

  • Yes. The default framing is 'housing system' because that's how most regional coalitions think. We also deliver topic-specific versions — zoning reset, financing reset, engagement reset — for organizations with a narrower scope. Same price structure.

“Flywheel helped us see opportunities we didn’t know existed. Their ability to connect policy, financing, and community vision gave us the confidence to move forward on projects that seemed impossible before. They don’t just give you a plan — they help you build the momentum to actually make it happen.”

- Mason County Chamber of Commerce / The Right Place

Housing System Reset Workshop

Shared language. Shared facts. Shared 30-day commitments.
Measured in outcomes, not meetings.

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