I'll give an overview of stable rank one and the C*-algebras known to have it, then describe a new approach to studying stable rank one in possibly nonnuclear crossed products. As an application, we show that stable rank one is generic for two natural classes of minimal actions of free groups on the Cantor set. Time permitting, I will discuss some examples to motivate parts of the proof. This is joint work with Shirly Geffen and David Kerr.