What Is CORE—and Why Capital Matters

Own the Block · Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 9m · transcript

This first episode of Own The Block sets the table for the season: what community-owned real estate actually is, how mature the field is in 2026, and what it will take for community ownership to become a durable, repeatable part of the real estate system rather than a one-off exception. Curt Lyon (Executive Director at Transform Finance) and Ahmed Mori (Co-director of the Community Ownership Learning & Action Lab at the University of Miami) zoom out to the state of the field and its policy landscape, while Nikishka Iyengar (Founder and CEO at The Guild) brings it down to the ground through…