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Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel

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Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
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Darrel Ramsey-Musolf joined the faculty of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2013. He holds a PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Master's degrees from Cal Poly Pomona and Suffolk University. While at Madison, he received a HUD Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant that supported his mixed-method examination of California's Housing Element Law and a 2-year AOF research grant from the College of Letters and Science.

While at Cal Poly Pomona, he was co-chair of the Graduate Student Planning Association, received the California Planners' Roundtable and UCLA Hagman scholarships, and served on APA's Student Representatives Council representing Region VI.

In April 2013, he proposed and moderated a session on affordable housing as part of APA's inaugural “Research Day” in Chicago. Professionally, he has worked as a municipal planner for the California cities of Glendora and Hawaiian Gardens, a planning intern for the City of Pomona, and a graduate management intern for the City of Pasadena.
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    According to the Plan: Testing the Influence of Housing Plan Quality on Low-Income Housing Production
    (2017-01-01) Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel
    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.
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    (2018-01-01) Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel
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    Data for "Evaluating California's Housing Element Law, Housing Equity, and Housing Production (1990-2007)"
    (2016-01-01) Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel
    Since 1969, California’s Housing Element Law has required that municipalities address housing equity and housing production. In California, housing equity means that a municipality has planned for the future production of low-income housing that is priced from 0 to 120% of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s median family income, and market-rate housing that is priced higher than 121%. For a purposive sample of municipalities (Sacramento and Los Angeles regions, 1990 to 2007, n = 53), this research found that as compliance with the law increased, the sample experienced deficient low-income housing production but surplus market-rate housing production. Mixed-effects models indicated that compliant municipalities were associated not only with increased low-income housing production but also with decreased annual housing production in comparison to noncompliant municipalities. While these associations contrast with Lewis, they suggest that municipal compliance may support California’s goal of providing housing equity but may also constrain California’s overall housing production.
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    Ramsey-Musolf According data
    (2017-01-01) Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel
    This CSV file contains the data pertaining to my research on housing plan quality and low-income housing production that was published in Urban Science.
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    Data for "The Efficacy of Allocating Housing Growth in the Los Angeles Region (2006-2014)"
    (2020-01-01) Ramsey-Musolf, Darrel
    This data set contains the data used in the descriptive and inferential analyses referenced in all tables, figures, and maps.