Hi there, I’m Caitlin McCabe. I’m a housing and residential real estate reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, writing about everything from housing trends to gentrification to the larger-than-life investors and personalities shaping the Philadelphia region.
I started at the Inquirer in 2015 as a reporter in the Pennsylvania suburbs, covering everything and anything thrown my way. I followed presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they traveled across the region, and spent days in Western Pennsylvania after a grand jury report revealed perennial clergy sex abuse there. I hung around an old oil town struggling to reinvent itself, interviewed a Temple University professor accused of being a spy, and spent countless days and nights in Chester City — a small, overlooked city with the highest homicide rate in America.
Then, in December 2016, I became the Inquirer’s residential real estate reporter, a job that’s taken me around Philadelphia’s rapidly changing neighborhoods and inside some of the region’s most famous buildings amid the biggest development boom in the city’s history. I’ve analyzed housing trends, dug into real estate records, and interviewed some of the region’s big-personality developers and politicians about how they are changing the way the region lives.
Before joining the Inquirer, I spent months in New York City, interning for the telecom team at Bloomberg News and the health desk The Wall Street Journal. At the latter, I traveled to Dallas to help cover the Ebola crisis, and back in New York, wrote a quirky A-head for the front page about how Cyber Santa is changing Christmas.
I graduated in May 2014 from UNC-Chapel Hill, where I studied journalism and political science. There, I wrote for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s newspaper, where I broke multiple stories about UNC’s handling of sexual assault, which were referenced in publications including the New York Times, and incited numerous colleges to examine their own policies. After that, I spent my final year at UNC helping launch the university’s first interactive longform iPad magazine, Synapse.
You can find me tweeting at @mccabe_caitlin. Want to get in touch? Email me at caitlinmccabe14@gmail.com.
I started at the Inquirer in 2015 as a reporter in the Pennsylvania suburbs, covering everything and anything thrown my way. I followed presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they traveled across the region, and spent days in Western Pennsylvania after a grand jury report revealed perennial clergy sex abuse there. I hung around an old oil town struggling to reinvent itself, interviewed a Temple University professor accused of being a spy, and spent countless days and nights in Chester City — a small, overlooked city with the highest homicide rate in America.
Then, in December 2016, I became the Inquirer’s residential real estate reporter, a job that’s taken me around Philadelphia’s rapidly changing neighborhoods and inside some of the region’s most famous buildings amid the biggest development boom in the city’s history. I’ve analyzed housing trends, dug into real estate records, and interviewed some of the region’s big-personality developers and politicians about how they are changing the way the region lives.
Before joining the Inquirer, I spent months in New York City, interning for the telecom team at Bloomberg News and the health desk The Wall Street Journal. At the latter, I traveled to Dallas to help cover the Ebola crisis, and back in New York, wrote a quirky A-head for the front page about how Cyber Santa is changing Christmas.
I graduated in May 2014 from UNC-Chapel Hill, where I studied journalism and political science. There, I wrote for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s newspaper, where I broke multiple stories about UNC’s handling of sexual assault, which were referenced in publications including the New York Times, and incited numerous colleges to examine their own policies. After that, I spent my final year at UNC helping launch the university’s first interactive longform iPad magazine, Synapse.
You can find me tweeting at @mccabe_caitlin. Want to get in touch? Email me at caitlinmccabe14@gmail.com.