Build Small Live Large

The 2019 Build Small Live Large Summit offers solutions to steeply rising rents, displacement, and the pollution that is changing our planet's climate. Cities across the country face housing shortages and skyrocketing rents. Those conditions create an appetite in the market for ADUs and other small homes. The goal of the Summit is to build on this growing demand to promote a small housing movement where design, cost and care for the environment intersect with the needs of today's families and urban neighborhoods. On Thursday and Friday, November 7-8, 2019 in Portland, Oregon, this Summit will gather national housing experts for two days of events to share policy approaches, design solutions and practical tools for catalyzing smaller-footprint development.