The Guild

a worker-owned cooperative building community-owned models of land, housing and real estate.

people + planet over profit.

[The Guild @guildatl]

Today is May Day, #InternationalWorkersDay, and we’re celebrating our official transition to a worker-owned cooperative! 🥳 Its been a journey in which we've learned so much about ourselves, each other, our values and how to reimagine work in our lives and our lives in our work.

[Odetta MacLeishWhite @OdettaMacLeishW]

So much to love: local journalism lifts up p'ship for community focused aff hsing efforts. FUNDERS this is where you need to put yr $! THIS is an anti-displacement strategy for the people! 🗣️🗣️
@guildatl @RWJF @kresgefdn @philanthropyATL @BlankFoundation https://t.co/mvh5dOHgT1

[Odetta MacLeishWhite @OdettaMacLeishW]

Yyyyeeeessss!!! Local journalism for the people, affordable housing for the people, I LOVE IT!!!! Congrats to @guildatl @HJL_Atlanta and partners in the Peoples’ CLT! @Tonypmc @cyndisuarez @thecathyshow

[Odetta MacLeishWhite @OdettaMacLeishW]

Can I get a little commotion for the permanently affordable, community owned housing?!?!?!? Congrats @guildatl @HJL_Atlanta and People's Community Land Trust!! @Vacant2Vibrant @PSEquityMatters @DwayneP75201838 @dianeyentel @GA_STANDUP @GeorgiaACT @BambieHayes @StaciFox

[ImpactAlpha @ImpactAlpha]

#InclusiveEconomy: Community actors are harnessing legal structures and evergreen investment funds to preserve ownership of commercial and residential assets. @EBPREC @guildatl @KCTPhilly @indianland

https://t.co/eIFI7Af0MR

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

Who are the radical real estate lawyers in Atlanta? Working on something at @guildatl for our community land trust and need some low bono support 👀

[Small Business Anti-Displacement Network @SBANinPlace]

Member Spotlight: Avery Ebron, Head of Community Products at @guildatl in Atlanta, is focused on closing the racial wealth gap through cooperative real estate, entrepreneurship, and access to capital for BIPOC communities. Read the full story: https://t.co/3VygE8IWan

[Kresge Foundation @kresgefdn]

The @guildatl works to preserve #housing affordability & the cultural identity of historically Black neighborhoods through a development model that centers #BIPOC communities that have been disenfranchised. Hear about the history of displacement & what's being done to address it.

[Kresge Foundation @kresgefdn]

The @guildatl's Dani Brockington describes how to create space for people to dream and what she envisions the future of this community will look like: block parties, cook-outs, music, people actually living in community together. #Atlanta
https://t.co/8uExjDwCu7

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

First of all at least the majority is being used to turn land in ATL into a community land trust, hopefully stewarded by folks like @guildatl who know better than me

A significant portion would be used for a participatory budgeting process that all residents could participate in

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

Still looking for 3-4 volunteers to sign up for a shift this Saturday! If you care about permanently affordable housing and taking land off the speculative market, hit us up [email protected]

We’ll be ripping up old carpet and painting the first home in our land trust!

[Odetta MacLeishWhite @OdettaMacLeishW]

You love to see it!! 😍😍😍 These are powerhouse orgs, the sum of the parts is going to be #belovedcommunity made manifest. GOOOOOO @guildatl and @HJL_Atlanta !!!!

[The Guild @guildatl]

If you're looking to volunteer, we're having our first volunteer renovation day this Saturday 6/17 11am-5pm. Email [email protected] to sign up!

[The Guild @guildatl]

New Community Land Trust just dropped! 🧵 on our partnership with @HJL_Atlanta and @afsc_org ATL Economic Justice Program.

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

Excited to announce @guildatl and @HJL_Atlanta have partnered to incubate the People's Community Land Trust, aimed at addressing the urgent need for permanently affordable housing in Atlanta.

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

Forgot to mention new season of road to repair is out! In this season we talk to practitioners (and elders like Ed) who’re building cooperative ownership structures and an alternative financing ecosystem to support co-ops. #coopsnotcops

[LIFT Economy @LIFTEconomy]

The real estate market is undoubtedly one of the most powerful and overlooked forces in shaping our cities and communities. 🏡 Learn how @guildatl is transforming the way communities build wealth in our conversation with founder @Nikishka.

Listen now ➡️ https://t.co/eScfcWWF35

[LIFT Economy @LIFTEconomy]

Our latest episode from our #NextEconomyMBA mini-series features @Nikishka, founder of @guildatl. Learn how they're building community wealth through cooperative real estate & and access to capital for marginalized communities.

Listen now ➡️ https://t.co/eScfcWWF35

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

I was 1 of 288 people that gave public comment to urge @atlcouncil to vote no on allocating $33.5M of public $$ to Cop City. Public comment went on for SEVEN HOURS and not a single person spoke in favor. The people don’t want Cop City, and Cop City will never be built.

[The Guild @guildatl]

Don’t forget to RSVP for our groundbreaking this weekend of Atlanta’s first community-owned mixed-use property!

https://t.co/8aYUhJtls0

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

It’s a groundbreaking, it’s a block party, it’s a combination groundbreaking block party…

After 2 yrs of design, permitting, supply chain issues, increased interest rates, and a host of pandemic challenges, we're breaking ground on @guildatl's first community-owned property!

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

We're constantly fighting the institutions and systems we *don't* want to see in the world. Our solidarity economics lab will be a space for workshops, gatherings, political education events, to be in active imagination and practice with ways to build the world we *do* want.

[The Guild @guildatl]

Join us to celebrate this milestone and learn about how you can join our Community Stewardship Trust!

We’ll have free food, music, mutual aid and activities for kids. RSVP here:

https://t.co/uXAdT3HyHu

[Nikishka Iyengar @Nikishka]

We’re finallyyy breaking ground on construction on the first property in our Trust! 18 units of cooperative housing, a small-format grocery store, 3 commercial kitchens for food entrepreneurs of color, + ATL’s first neighborhood solidarity economics lab.

https://t.co/5t8BowqL6T