Marketplace is paywall-free because of listeners like you. 🧡 Donate now

A Los Angeles-area developer gives advice on rebuilding after the fires

Feb 7, 2025
Waleed Delawari of Delawari Investment Group shares some of the lessons he's learned on what rebuilding a home might look like after the LA fires.

Marketplace's David Brancaccio on community, loss and rebuilding in Altadena

"Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio and his wife lost their new home to one of the fires that ravaged Southern California recently. Here's what they've learned about rebuilding in the aftermath.

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?
Catastrophe bonds can help stabilize the troubled property insurance market by spreading risk from insurance companies to investors.
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Nashville's downtown is still recovering a year after a bombing rocked the area

Dec 24, 2021
The Christmas Day bombing impacted dozens of businesses. Some have relocated, while others are waiting for the city to rebuild.
Buildings damaged in the Christmas Day 2020 bombing stand on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville. Some businesses have relocated out of the district.
Damon Mitchell/WPLN News

For public good, not for profit.

A year after a deadly tornado in Tennessee, people weigh the decision to rebuild

Mar 3, 2021
Rebuilding has been slowed by the pandemic, fears about future storms and the pain of lost lives.
Survivors have been dealing with the tornado's aftermath, from rebuilding homes to post-traumatic stress and grieving for lost loved ones.
Brett Carlsen/Getty Images

Bond remains strong between Puerto Rican evacuees and those who stayed

Dec 22, 2017
Families, now divided between the mainland and the island, start new endeavors and try to preserve old ties.
Wireless internet at an extended-stay FEMA hotel in Orlando is the main way the Hernandezes keep in touch with family still in Puerto Rico.
Renata Sago/Marketplace

New Orleans' mayor: Storm's crux was levee failure

Aug 17, 2015
Mitch Landrieu talks about the need to invest in infrastructure post-Katrina.