I’m a journalist and writer. My work makes people read, think, and take action.

I ask the questions people want answered.

Why is housing so expensive?

What would actually happen if the United States decided to default on its debt?

What will really happen if construction workers are deported en masse?

My writing makes complicated topics understandable and relevant.

In this story explaining a new financial product, I compared mutual funds to mix tapes

What the Federal Reserve does matters to your bank account. Here’s what that actually means.

Here, I showed how Zillow wanted to make trading houses as easy as trading stocks

Bio

I’m an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience breaking news, telling stories, and making complicated things make sense. I've covered the U.S. housing market, financial markets and investing, and public finance. I’m a runner, College Jeopardy! alum, trauma survivor, and basset hound mom.

Writing

The housing crisis threatens the American dream

The traditional American Dream – putting down roots, investing a little sweat equity, watching the nest egg grow steadily – is in peril.

'The civil rights issue of our generation'? A battle over housing erupts in Massachusetts

Do cities and towns have a responsibility to help house all kinds of residents in homes they can afford – and can states compel them to do so if they refuse? 

Come hell or high water: building community resilience

The climate crisis is increasingly manifesting itself as a water crisis: too much or too little. 

Reconnecting Communities 

I covered this ambitious Biden Administration infrastructure program twice for ImpactAlpha. This piece looked at its successes.

Four years, $13 million and dozens of hands

This visually compelling deep dive into why it's so expensive to build affordable housing won a national award in 2020

The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors

I spent several years covering the efforts to reform the realtor business model, including this blockbuster feature on the class-action lawsuit

Selling your home to an iBuyer could cost you thousands

I was the first national journalist to quantify the cost of using an 'iBuyer' to sell your home

Investing legend Burton Malkiel on day-trading millennials

In the midst of the pandemic day-trading craze, I interviewed Burt Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street

A mostly Black Alabama county has no municipal sewer service

This 2021 expose connected the dots between a DOJ investigation and the use of the Civil Rights Act for environmental justice

 Contact me

andreathescribe@gmail.com
New York, NY 10016