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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Narrative journalistic report with on-site reporting, expert interviews, and personal anecdotes—blending field audio, factory tours, and commentary like a radio documentary.
- The Key Players:
- David Brancaccio: Host and reporter for Marketplace APM; personally invested as his Altadena home burned in the fires, driving an authentic, firsthand perspective on rebuilding challenges.
- Experts: University of San Diego Prof. Daniel Lopez Perez (advocate for modular housing tech), Mercer Mass Timber's Matt Kramer and Nate Foster (factory insights), Seattle architect Susan Jones (pioneer of CLT homes).
- The Vibe: Educational and optimistic, blending urgency about fire recovery and housing crises with innovative hope—practical yet frustrated by real-world hurdles.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:01) **Rebuilding Homes After LA Firestorms**
- 2 (01:53) **Professor Daniel Lopez Perez on Housing Tech**
- 3 (02:23) **CLT in Action: Polyhouse Build**
- 4 (02:59) **Mercer Mass Timber Factory Tour**
- 5 (03:41) **On-Site Speed with Prefab CLT**
- 6 (04:03) **Fire Resistance of CLT**
- 7 (06:30) **Susan Jones' Pioneering CLT Homes**
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Show Notes
Altadena residents eager to build more fire-resistant new homes run up against obstacles of expense, labor, availability of materials, and of course, the question of whether insurance will pay for it.
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