The Community Investment Trust in Portland allows people to “buy back the block” by becoming investors in local buildings. The project aims to provide affordable real estate investment opportunities for people of color whose neighborhoods have been impacted by gentrification. The first building using this model is in Southeast Portland, and more than 200 people in the neighborhood have invested in the property. Now, several cities are interested in replicating the model. We talk with John Haines, the executive director of the Community Investment Trust, and Jennifer Breedlove, one of the neighborhood investors.