Does traffic congestion have you down?
Is utopian urban planning making housing unaffordable in your region?
Are you worried that expensive light-rail projects are a waste of money?
If so, you need to attend the 2007 Preserving the American Dream conference, sponsored by the American Dream Coalition. This conference will give you the opportunity to meet dozens of expert speakers and activists from all over the world.
Think housing is expensive in your city?
Thanks to its urban-growth boundary, a 2,400-square-foot lot in San Jose costs more than $230,000, while the median home price is $670,000, so few people there can afford a house with a yard.
The 2007 conference begins with a tour of San Jose, one of the most heavily regulated and least-affordable cities in America. The tour will also feature San Jose's light-rail lines, part of one of the worst-managed transit systems in the country. Later, conference speakers will suggest ways that cities like San Jose can recover from the damage done by years of intrusive urban planning.
A partial list of conference speakers includes:
Mary Peters, U.S. Secretary of Transportation (invited)
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed (invited)
William Thomas Bogart, author of Don't Call It Sprawl
Joel Kotkin, author of The City: A Global History (invited)
Wendell Cox, author of War on the Dream
Edward Stringham, housing economist, San Jose State University
John Charles, Cascade Policy Institute
Robert Poole, the Reason Foundation
Randal O'Toole, Cato Institute
Also Thomas Rubin, Peter Gordon, Samuel Staley, Joel Schwartz, and many more!
For more information, including on-line or mail-in registration forms, see the conference web site.
In addition to the American Dream Coalition, the conference is co-sponsored by the Cato Institute, Grassroot Institute of Hawai'i, Heritage Foundation, Independence Institute, Independent Institute, Public Interest Institute, Reason Foundation, Taxpayers' League of Minnesota, Washington Policy Center, and Thoreau Institute.