On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Congresswoman Nikema Williams about why ownership is the new black and how Atlanta keeps proving it. She drove here at 20 in a 1991 Honda Accord knowing nobody, taught in Fulton County schools, and lived at Centennial Place with the spot Roosevelt cut the ribbon on the country’s first public housing project sitting right outside her front door.

Twenty years later she represents that district in Congress and sits on the committee that shapes housing and banking for the whole country. She breaks down the HEIRS Act and the four years it took to pass a bill that helps families untangle land titles so they can finally sell, borrow against, and pass down what they already own.

She also gets into the $3 billion she secured to reconnect neighborhoods the highways cut in half, what data centers owe the communities they move into and more.