No Place Like Home Conference: The Past, Present, and Future of The American Dream Hosts Hundreds of Enthusiastic Home Industry Professionals

ANAHEIM, CA, June 08, 2013 (Press-News.org) Organizers of the No Place Like Home Conference (www.noplacelikehomeconference.com), announced the success of the information packed day-long conference about today's urban landscape for Southern California's shapers: architects and planners, home builders, real estate professionals and urban planning policy leaders. Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait and Howard Ahmanson welcomed more than 230 attendees who spent the day learning about the future of home building and urban planning in the region. The event was held June 3 at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.

In his speech entitled, "Retrofitting the Dream," Joel Kotkin, an internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends and author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, said, "The suburb of the future may well resemble more of a self-sufficient village than a prototypical suburb of the 1950s... They will increasingly not be limited to being a 'bedroom' community, since many will work at home, or commute to employment in another suburb... Its population will be far more diverse, by age and ethnicity, than its historic predecessor."

The conference moderator and emcee was Steve PonTell, chief executive officer and president of National Community Renaissance (CORE). Representatives of organizations such as Bank of America; the California Association of Realtors; Fieldstead and Company, Inc.; California State University, Los Angeles; and the cities of Aliso Viejo, Anaheim, Brea, Costa Mesa, Dana Point, Fountain Valley, Fullerton, Irvine, La Habra, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, Pico Rivera, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Tustin, and Yorba Linda as well as the County of Orange spent the day listening to presentations by subject matter experts, including Kotkin, Eric John Abrahamson, Robert Bruegmann, Walter Russell Mead, Kevin Starr, Shaheen Sadeghi, Sara Sutachan, and D.J. Waldie.

Barnes & Nobles staff members were onsite selling copies of many of the speakers' books, which can still be purchased online via http://www.barnesandnoble.com/.

About the No Place Like Home Conference
The No Place Like Home Conference, a day-long event to explore the cultural and economic history of Southern California through the lens of the meteoric rise in homeownership over the last century, was made possible by the Building Industry Association of Southern California Orange County Chapter; the Urban Land Institute, Orange County/Inland Empire; Union Bank; the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy; and the C. Larry Hoag Center for Real Estate and Finance, The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University as well as other generous supporters. For more information and a complete list of session topics and speakers, go to: http://www.noplacelikehomeconference.com.

National Community Renaissance (CORE) is a registered trademark of National CORE.

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