The hard path to rebuilding, with "This Old House Radio Hour"

Marketplace Morning Report

American Public Media

News, Business

4.5 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

"This Old House Radio Hour" — now a radio show and a podcast — helps listeners tackle home projects both big and small. "Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio is on that program this week, talking about the process of rebuilding his Altadena home after it was destroyed by the January wildfires.

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0:00.0	Hi, Morning Report listeners, David here. On Marketplace in recent months, I've been doing stories about what I'm learning about rebuilding after disaster.
0:08.4	Of those 16,000 structures that burned up in the California wildfires this year, one was mine.
0:14.6	With the 99-year-old house gone, we need to plan for a house for the next hundred years.
0:20.1	How do we build the new one while
0:21.7	respecting the old? Well, this old house radio hour, another radio show and podcast from
0:26.9	American Public Media, asked me to share the story with their audience, rebuilding, disaster
0:32.4	hardening, and new beginnings. Also, if you need any tips for your own home improvement
0:37.1	projects, this Old House
0:38.7	Radio Hour has you covered. You'll hear that episode play next. Hope you enjoy.
0:44.5	From LAS and APM, American Public Media, it's This Old House Radio Hour. I'm your host, Jen Larges.
0:51.5	On today's show, the founders of the Neat Method are here to help bring order to your
0:55.4	closets, drawers, and every space in between. Anybody could tackle a drawer. And I think if you start
1:01.6	with the one that kind of makes you cringe the most, you'll see, oh, okay, that wasn't so bad.
1:06.4	Marketplace's David Brancaccio lost his beloved cottage to the fires that devastated Los Angeles.
1:11.8	He shares what it means to start over.
1:13.8	This beautiful little house was a house for the last century.
1:17.7	How can we honor that house but build a house for the next 99 years?
1:22.1	Ethan and Elizabeth Finkelstein are back with more cheap old houses.
1:26.0	All of this, plus we're answering your home improvement questions at 877-864-740.
1:32.6	That's 877-864-740.
1:36.5	Coming up right after the news.
1:50.3	Welcome back to This Old House Radio Hour from L.A.S. and APM. I'm your host, Jen Largess.
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