Article
According to the Plan: Testing the Influence of Housing Plan Quality on Low-Income Housing Production
Urban Science
(2018)
Abstract
For more than 20 years, scholars have assessed a plan’s content to determine the plan’s quality, with quality serving as a proxy for planning efficacy. However, scholars rarely examine the relationship between a plan’s quality and the plan’s intended outcome. Thus, it is unclear whether quality influences planning outcomes or even advances equity. To close this gap, this study assessed a non-random sample of housing plans from 43 cities in California’s Los Angeles and Sacramento regions to observe how cities accommodated low-income housing needs and to observe whether each plan’s quality influenced low-income housing production. The analysis indicates that the plans identified 42 different planning tools to accommodate low-income housing needs, and nearly 60% of the implementing objectives proposed construction programs. Quality is influential after the city’s location, land-use, population, and the plan’s compliance with state housing law are taken into account. In summary, quality illuminated how these cities accommodated low-income housing needs and, in conjunction with other city conditions, quality influences low-income housing production. Due to this non-random sample, this study calls on planning scholars to subject quality to more empirical tests on planning outcomes in other areas to increase quality’s importance in scholarship.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci2010001
Citation Information
Darrel Ramsey-Musolf. "According to the Plan: Testing the Influence of Housing Plan Quality on Low-Income Housing Production" Urban Science Vol. 2 Iss. 1 (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/darrel_ramsey-musolf/12/
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