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Download or read book California's Housing Element Law written by . This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation examines the effects of California's Housing Element Law on low-income housing production. Implemented in 1969, the law been lauded for addressing housing inequity and components have been replicated in other states (e.g., FL, IL, OR, WI). California evaluates the law by annually enumerating the municipalities that maintain compliant housing elements; yet, no agency can quantitatively state how the law has affected low-income housing production. My dissertation responds to this need. Using content analysis and regression, my mixed-methods investigation examined data from Los Angeles and Sacramento region municipalities (n=51), determined how low-income housing production changed over time (e.g., 1990 to 2007), and hypothesized that low-income and annual housing production were a function of housing demand, growth, political will, existing housing supply, subsidy--not the law. I found that as my sample's municipal compliance increased over time, their low-income housing production was deficient, but their market-rate production exceeded the State's goal--exacerbating inequity. For low-income housing production, the conceptual model did not establish a statistical relationship; however, tax and license revenues, state transfers, municipal area, and adjacent cities maintained statistical relationships (p