David Brancaccio

The rooms had us gather in certain ways.

The kitchen would allow us to create beautiful things to share.

the systems that would tell us what's comfortable, what's not.

The building materials would show us what was really possible.

We no longer are just taking the home we were handed by fate.

We're, if we can, designing our futures by figuring out how it is that we want to live through materials that are more resilient given everything that's outside, through systems that use less energy, through layouts that reflect how families actually live today.

And we heard something I think just as important that better building is not about chasing square footage or chasing some kind of perfection.

It's in a way about alignment between climate considerations and cost considerations, between resilience and comfort, between the house and the human life that's inside the house.

No, I mean, can we say it?

It's a relationship, really.

One that, you know, can unfold over decades.

Ours unfolded over two months, but we hope the next one will be many decades.

One that has to hold change and stress and healing, growth and care.

Yeah, so when we talk about building for the next hundred years... You're really talking about how we want to live together for the next decades or even hundreds of years.

What do we value?

What do we want to hold on to?

What do we choose to pass on?

Yeah, not just rebuilding homes, but building lives so that they can thrive inside those homes.

And I'm David Brancaccio.

President Trump had no legal right to impose many of those tariffs the way he did.