Jenn Largesse

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

I mean, New England's a rocky place.

And so this is from Vermont, the countertop from a quarry in Vermont that is still operating.

Let me grab my shoes.

We're gonna go to the basement stairs.

And I was really trying intentionally to build a home for the future.

Every experiment in building for the future isn't necessarily high tech.

It's how people choose to live together.

In Cumbee, Texas, a small community is offering a window into how some Americans are choosing to live out their golden years.

The Bird's Nest was founded by Robin Urien, a 70-year-old retiree who cashed out her 401k, bought five acres of raw land, and built a tiny house community.

So we've talked about housing from just about every angle, why people are being asked to build, how homes are being built differently, and how all that really changes the way we live inside them.

And what we've heard today is that people all over the country are being asked to make those choices consciously now.

Yeah, we heard about new ways of building too, you know, micro factories, mass timber, concrete systems, not as abstract innovations, but really as tools that people are using right now.

At the end of the day, a home isn't a product.

That's the work in front of us, definitely.

And that's really what building for the future comes down to.

Making deliberate choices about how we want to live, not just what we want to build.

If we get that right, the homes can change, the systems can evolve, but the lives inside them have a chance to truly thrive.

Thanks for listening.

I'm Jen Largess.

This was a special episode of This Old House Radio Hour.

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