In a volatile housing market, lenders, investors, and landlords determine who can afford to live where. To counter instability and profit motives, some of Oakland’s local organizations take a permanent and communal approach to land and housing, using the community land trust model to keep land off the market and in community control in perpetuity. In this episode we hear from Shekinah Samaya-Thomas and Chris Thomas, two homeowners with the Oakland Community Land Trust.