The People’s Community Land Trust is the latest organization working to keep residents in their homes as rising prices push many people out of Atlanta. The project is a collaboration between three economic and housing justice organizations: The Guild, Housing Justice League, and Atlanta Economic Justice Program.

At the 2023 Housing Supply Innovation Symposium, panelists discussed how policymakers can increase the housing supply equitably, with speakers highlighting innovative programs that center racial justice and community empowerment while expanding affordable homeownership opportunities.

Co-creating a just world is not a dream anymore. It is already happening. Instead of focusing on figuring out how communities can self-govern, it is important to recognize that BIPOC communities are already self-governing. The real challenge is, How do we challenge the status quo instead of maintaining it?

With a marquee greenspace, a planned Microsoft campus, and other flashy new developments, Grove Park and Bankhead are ground zero for Atlanta gentrification. What happens to the people who are already there?

Neighbors will buy shares of the mixed-use building, earning annual dividends and eventually owning the building outright.

Creating an affordable home for small businesses and local residents in a gentrifying area usually means hoping that some far-away developer will throw the community a bone. But at one site in Atlanta’s Capitol View, a social enterprise organization is trying to flip that script with a permanently affordable project the community itself would own and control.