Land Without Lords: How an Oakland Real Estate Cooperative is Drafting New Blueprints for Shared Ownership

This week in the guest chair, we have Noni Session, Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC), a community-driven investment vehicle transforming how land and housing are owned. Based in Oakland, EB PREC is pioneering a model of permanent real estate stewardship rooted in cooperative economics, democratic governance, and cultural organizing. Under Noni’s leadership, the collective has raised over $15 million to remove properties from the speculative market and return them to community control—empowering longtime residents to buy back the block and co-create a future beyond displacement.

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