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

Aug

01

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

by Fieldstead and Company

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Date and time

Wed, August 1, 2018

8:30 AM – 8:30 PM PDT

Location

USC, Town and Gown Ballroom

665 Exposition Blvd

Los Angeles, California 90089

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Description

What Would Howard* Do?

Home Ownership and the American Dream: Examining the Past and Plotting a Future

*Howard Ahmanson Sr., businessman, philanthropist, and purveyor of the American Dream.

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

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

Event starts at 9:00am.

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Presentations:

Eric Abrahamson and Adam Arenson - A Community Partner: Howard Ahmanson Sr.'s Mid-century Innovations

Robert Fishman - How Los Angeles became "exceptional" and how it ceased to be exceptional

Jason Sexton - California Values and Shifting Attitudes on Property Rights

William Fischel - Homevoters and Housing Prices: How did we get here?

Kenneth Stahl - Current land use law and reform: an expanded role for the county?

Joel Kotkin - The State of California Housing Today

Panel: 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?

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

Rick Cole - Housing Policy for the 21st Century



Speakers Include:

Eric Abrahamson - Institutional historian and author of Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream.

Adam Arenson - Professor of history at Manhattan College and author of Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California.

Rick Cole - City Manager of Santa Monica

William Fischel - Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College and author of Zoning Rules! The Economics of Land Use Regulation

Robert Fishman - Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman College, and author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia

Joel Kotkin - Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and author of The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us.

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.

Johnny Sanphilippo - writer and photographer, contributor to Strong Towns, and blogger at Granola Shotgun

Jason Sexton - Pollak Library Faculty Fellow, CSU Fullerton and editor of Boom California.



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

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