Defending Mobility & Homeownership
Defending Mobility and Homeownership
Mobility and homeownership are under attack. The Secretary of Transportation says the goal of the Obama administration is to “coerce people out of their cars.” The House Transportation Committee wants to require all rural areas to conduct land-use planning to prevent “sprawl” — and make single-family housing unaffordable to most people.
Now more than ever, it is time to come together to fight these threats to the American Dream. The 2010 Preserving the American Dream conference in Orlando on June 10-12 is your opportunity to meet dozens of experts and compare notes with activists from all over the world.
- Hear about Obama Administration plans for a national land-use planning system
- Find out how Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood expects to coerce Americans out of their cars
- Hear about how high-speed rail fits into anti-mobility plans
- Learn how to defend mobility and homeownership at federal and local levels
- Hear the latest research from the experts
- Exchange ideas with fellow activists
- Attend sessions on transportation reauthorization, land-use reform, environmental policy, property rights, and other key issues
Confirmed speakers include:
- Nick Gillespie, editor, Reason Magazine
- Steven Polzin, Center for Urban Transportation Research
- Joe Waggoner and Marty Stone of the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority
- Cheryl Thole, of the National Bus Rapid Transit Institute
- Steven Greenhut, Pacific Research Institute
- Clyde Hart, American Bus Association
- Joel Schwartz, Blue Sky Consulting Group
- Doug Guetzloe, Ax the Tax
- George Siler, former executive director, Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission
- Sam Staley, Reason Foundation
- Robert Poole, Reason Foundation
- Alan Pisarski, author of Commuting in America
- Wendell Cox, author of War on the Dream
- Randal O’Toole, author of Cato Institute
- Ron Utt, Heritage Foundation
- Gabriel Roth, editor/author of Street Smart
- Ed Braddy, American Dream Coalition
- Tom Rubin, transit expert
Conference registration is just $259. We also offer a student and low-income rate of $175. The optional Thursday tour of Tampa and Orlando transportation and land-use projects is $49.
The conference will take place at the Orlando Doubletree Resort on International Drive, a beautiful hotel just minutes away from SeaWorld, Universal Resort, and Walt Disney World. To make reservations at the conference rate of $99 (including free WiFi for conference goers), good for any time between June 6 and June 14, call 1-800-327-0363 and ask for the American Dream Coalition rate.
Date: March 9th, 2010 @ 19:42