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Amy Scott

Host & Senior Correspondent, Housing

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Amy Scott is the host of “How We Survive,” Marketplace's climate solutions podcast, and a senior correspondent covering housing, climate and the economy. She is also a frequent guest host of Marketplace programs.

Since 2001, Amy has held many roles at Marketplace and covered many beats, from the culture of Wall Street to education and housing. Her reporting has taken her to every region of the country as well as Egypt, Dubai and Germany.  Her 2015 documentary film, “Oyler,” about a Cincinnati public school fighting to break the cycle of poverty in its traditionally urban Appalachian neighborhood, has screened at film festivals internationally and was broadcast on public television in 2016. She's currently at work on a film about a carpenter's mission to transform an abandoned block in west Baltimore into a community of Black women homeowners.

Amy has won several awards for her reporting, including a SABEW Best in Business podcast award in 2023, Gracie awards for outstanding radio series in 2013 and 2014 and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting in 2012. Before joining Marketplace, Amy worked as a reporter in Dillingham, Alaska, home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run. These days she's based in Baltimore.

Latest Stories (1,696)

Rebuilding after a fire: lessons from previous disasters

Jan 21, 2025
After losing their home to a wildfire three years ago, this couple aimed to make their new property fire-resilient.
Homes burn during the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado. Matteo Rebeschini and Melanie Glover lost their Boulder home in the blaze but rebuilt it to be fire-resilient.
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The role of catastrophe bonds in paying to rebuild after fires and other disasters

Jan 15, 2025
Catastrophe bonds play an important role in keeping the insurance market functioning at a time when it’s getting harder for homeowners to get affordable coverage. But what happens catastrophe actually strikes?

As wildfires burn in Los Angeles, insurers brace for a potential financial disaster

Jan 9, 2025
The system is already strained by climate-induced disasters, says Wharton's Ben Keys. Homeowners across the state may bear some of the cost.

Home equity could fuel a massive wealth transfer in the coming years

Jan 6, 2025
But even if baby boomers plan to pass on housing wealth to their heirs, they might end up needing it themselves.

For millennia, the Arctic absorbed more carbon than it emitted. That's changed.

Dec 24, 2024
The region is warming much faster than the rest of the planet and releasing greenhouse gases from its thawing soil. Umair Irfan of Vox explains.
As the Arctic warms, it is releasing greenhouses gases from its thawing soil and becoming more accessible to oil and gas extraction.
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Asheville tea maker is “working hard to stay optimistic” after hurricane

Dec 23, 2024
Jessie Dean, owner of Asheville Tea Company, has sold out of her Christmas blends but is still waiting for affordable loans to rebuild.

Money starts flowing from national "green bank"

Dec 17, 2024
But the future of climate investment is uncertain under the incoming Trump administration.
Green banks combine public and private financing to fund green energy projects, like wind farms.
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Some stores have reported hand basket theft after plastic bag bans went into effect.
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Awaiting immigration crackdown, some homebuilders wonder who'll build the homes

Dec 6, 2024
About a quarter of construction workers are immigrants. They may be vulnerable at a time when more housing is needed across the country.