David Brancaccio

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2,652 appearances 78 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 5 May

David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Marketplace All-in-One · Building Tomorrow: A Special Look at the Future of Housing · 21 Feb 2026 podcast

Large sections were built elsewhere and assembled here.

I've never met

Aloe Blacc, who happens to be a well-known musical artist.

But when I saw the prefab, I wanted to know more, and we were shaking hands for the first time.

We didn't get to meet before the fire, but one of the things about the fire is you get to meet the neighbors.

Howdy, neighbor.

You're the Aloe Blacc, aren't you?

Yeah, I'm a singer and a songwriter, entertainer, lucky enough to be part of this beautiful community and help restore it in the way that I can.

A modern, high-quality dwelling.

So five months from contract signing to having something here,

It's near completion.

What's it look like on the inside?

Can we peer in?

It's really nice on the inside.

I'd be happy to show you guys.

Well, this is like Euro.

For more than a century, the U.S.

has turned to factory-built homes in moments of urgency, from Gold Rush-era kit houses shipped west to Sears catalog homes delivered by rail to post-war efforts to house millions of returning GIs.

Again and again, the idea made sense on paper, but a truly national prefab housing system never quite took hold.

To understand why, we need to revisit one of the boldest housing experiments in American history, a federal program called Operation Breakthrough.

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