EVENTS

Upcoming Events:

• Does traffic congestion have you down?
• Are heavily subsidized developments infesting your city?
• Is utopian urban planning making housing unaffordable in your region?

If so, you need to attend the 2007 Preserving the American Dream conference, co-sponsored by the Public Interest Institute. This conference will give you the opportunity to meet dozens of expert speakers and activists from all over the world.

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)
• Robert Poole, the Reason Foundation
• 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
• Don Racheter, Public Interest Institute
• Randal O'Toole, Cato Institute
• Also Thomas Rubin, Peter Gordon, Samual Staley, Joel Schwartz, and many more!

For more information, including on-line or mail-in registration forms, see the American Dream Coalition web site.

In addition to the Public Interest Institute, the conference is co-sponsored by the Cascade Policy Institute, Cato Institute, Grassroot Institute of Hawai'i, Heritage Foundation, Home Builders Association of Central Arizona, Independence Institute, Independent Institute, Reason Foundation, Taxpayers' League of Minnesota, Washington Policy Center, and Thoreau Institute.