Shared Equity and a New Dream of Homeownership with Tony Pickett

Building Better Cities · Sep 17, 2026 · 38m · transcript

Homeownership has long been sold as a single path with a single set of rules — but what happens when that path stops working for most people? In this episode of Building Better Cities, Kate Gasparro sits down with Tony Pickett, CEO of Grounded Solutions Network, to explore how community land trusts and shared equity models are reshaping the relationship between housing, wealth, and city development.

Tony's career spans public housing revitalization in Atlanta, the founding of the Atlanta Land Trust, and now a national push to bring shared equity into the mainstream of urban infrastructure and…