Chris Allen, Strong Towns’ director of Events and Partnerships, will present at a housing conference hosted by Housing Opportunities Made Easier in Camarillo, California.

LOCATION: The Serra Center |  DATE: October 16, 2025  |  TIME: 8:30 a.m. PDT

The 2025 Housing Opportunities Made Easier (HOME) Conference focuses on innovative housing solutions, collaboration, and policy advancements. This year's theme is "Connecting Communities."

Chris Allen will give a lecture titled “Breaking Out of the Housing Trap.” He’ll explain how a complex system that should be adaptive and self-correcting has become one prone to a never-ending cycle of boom-and-bust crises and overcorrections. He’ll also identify some rational responses that your city (and every city) can take to create a less fragile housing ecosystem, in which the bar to entry is low and every neighborhood can undergo incremental change over time.