CONFERENCE: What Would Howard* Do? Conference: Home Ownership and the American Dream

What Would Howard* Do?
Home Ownership And The American Dream: Examining The Past And Plotting A Future

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*Howard Ahmanson Sr., Businessman, Philanthropist, And Purveyor Of The American Dream.

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$50 Registration fee (includes breakfast, lunch, cocktail reception, and dinner).

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Doors open at 8:30am for registration and continental breakfast.

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Event starts at 9:00am.

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Visit wwhd.eventbrite.com to register.

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Presentations:

Eric Abrahamson (Institutional historian and author) and Adam Arenson (Professor of history at Manhattan College) – A Community Partner: Howard Ahmanson Sr.’s Mid-century Innovations 

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Robert Fishman (Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman College) – How Los Angeles became “exceptional” and how it ceased to be exceptional

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Jason Sexton (Pollak Library Faculty Fellow, CSU Fullerton) – California Values and Shifting Attitudes on Property Rights

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William Fischel (Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College) – Homevoters and Housing Prices: How did we get here?

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Kenneth Stahl (Professor of Law and the director of the Environmental, Land Use, and Real Estate Law certificate program at Chapman University Flower School of Law) – Current land use law and reform: an expanded role for the county?

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Joel Kotkin (Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University) – The State of California Housing Today

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Panel: Allan Carlson (moderator), Brian Hanlon, Kristen Jeffers, Karla López del Rio, Manuel Pastor, Tim Piasky, Karthick Ramakrishnan – The future of the American Dream: Where do we go from here?

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Johnny Sanphillippo (writer and photographer) – Beginning, Middles, Ends: A Return to Household and Community Productivity (slideshow)

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Rick Cole (City Manager of Santa Monica) – Housing Policy for the 21st Century.

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For more information contact Ann Hirou at ahirou@nonnobis.com.