Amy Scott
speaker
372 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 19 Mar
Amy Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Those job losses would show up in the unemployment rate, which as of last month was 4.4 percent, relatively low by historic standards.
I'm Megan McCarty Carino for Marketplace.
We're coming up on the spring home buying market, but we're still catching up on data from earlier this year, thanks to the lingering effects from last fall's government shutdown.
Today, the Census Bureau reported new home sales for January.
And as Daniel Ackerman reports, the news was not great for builders.
I'm seeing that they are building a lot of homes and giving the farm away on incentives.
We are pricing on the lower end of the comps of the area because our buyers won't come through the door if we're even a bit overpriced.
Wall Street singing the blues today.
We'll have the details when we do the numbers.
To buy one of those new houses Daniel Ackerman was talking about, most Americans need a mortgage.
But there are some parts of the country where it's harder to get one.
You've heard of food deserts and banking deserts.
Sharon Cornelison, director of housing at the Consumer Federation of America, has studied mortgage deserts.
She's here today to tell us about her work.
Sharon, good to have you on.
What exactly is a mortgage desert?
How do you define it?
Yeah, I covered housing in Baltimore for a long time where people often had trouble getting mortgages because the home values were too low.
And especially when interest rates were low, the banks sort of wouldn't justify the cost.
What are the impacts of this on equity in homeownership?
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