More from the Planning Penalty

The American Dream Coalition website has a map of the calculated planning penalty by state. Very informative but it should have been done on a per capita basis. Otherwise, states with large populations are disproportionally marked as red. For instance, Florida and New Jersey have the same planning penalty but different populations; NJ has twice as much per capita penalty as FL.

Annual per capita penalty for the top three, using 2000 census data:
1. California - $3700
2. Massachusetts - $2300
3. New Jersey - $1950

CA tops the list for both total and per capita penalty. Wow.