Daniel Herriges Strong Towns Editor-In-Chief, will give an Escaping The Housing Trap webinar on October 17, 2023.

LOCATION: Online Zoom Event | DATE: October 17, 2023 | TIME: 6:00 PM ET

Talk of a "housing crisis" pervades American cities—be it about off-the-charts rents in coastal cities or hyper-vacancy in the Rust Belt. These problems are symptoms of a deeper dysfunction. Over nearly a century, through often well-intended top-down policy interventions, we've turned a complex system that should be adaptive and self-correcting into one prone to a never-ending cycle of boom and bust, crises and overcorrections.

To address the dysfunction at the root of our housing problems, we need to shift our approach. We must move away from a model in which large developers and centralized financial institutions have unprecedented sway over what is built and where, to a more antifragile housing ecosystem in which the bar to entry is low, and every neighborhood can undergo incremental change over time.

This webinar, will help you understand the root causes of America's interrelated housing crises, and identify some rational responses that your city (and every city) can take.

This webinar is part of the Lake County, Florida Community Action Lab. Through the Community Action Lab, Strong Towns is bringing to Lake County everything we have learned over the last decade not only about building stronger and more resilient cities, but also about building a movement. Strong Towns is helping to shift the vital center of dialogue using our broad reach, nonpartisan appeal, and accessible messaging.