As Florida’s charter schools continue to grow, access to affordable facilities remains a major challenge, forcing schools to spend significant resources on private space even as many district buildings sit underutilized. A report by the Florida Charter Institute and Momentum Strategy & Research finds that declining district enrollment has left hundreds of thousands of empty seats statewide, yet few charters operate in district-owned facilities due to weak laws and local resistance. Drawing on examples from other cities, the article argues that meaningful facility sharing requires not just state policy changes, but genuine local collaboration to treat public school buildings as shared community assets.