Nikishka Iyengar, founder and CEO of The Guild is named a 2025 Loeb Fellow

Across the country, neighborhood groups are uniting to fund mixed-use developments that meet housing and business demands, giving locals a place to live, work and learn new skills.

For this post, we interviewed Nikishka Iyengar, founder & CEO of The Guild, about prioritizing collective wellbeing, a model for community ownership and the importance of self-care when engaging with collective trauma.

So many people say property owners are pricing them out of their homes. Now one group is working to not only keep that from happening but says its goal is to lower what renters are paying.

From Atlanta to Burlington, four financial activists offer a window into their work flowing resources to front-line communities.

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.