Low-wealth Residential

[djennings1301 0]

Does anyone have any tips to assure that a zoned off area stays low-wealth?  I can usually get it to begin as low wealth, but in a few years, it moves up to med or high.   Any help is greatly appreciated.

[SC4BOY 21]

no education and/or no water.. that will do it

[iConstruct 0]

Yeah, that will help. No water and education. I deal with high demand of R-$ constantly. Zone it as high density and you will get a good building pop up with couple thousand sims, granted you have a high enough R-$ demand.

[NetPCDoc 1]

Hello djennings1301,

Tip #1 - there are certain lot dimensions that will only grow R$ buildings - as only the R$'s have a building that will fit.

If you care to do your own research - you can check the various sizes - either in the EA/Maxis Lot Editor or in the SC4Tool.

I stumbled upon a 2x4 (2 wide x 4 deep) R$ building - holds approx. 6,000 sims, which later research showed that the reason I was only getting the R$ was because there were neither R$$ nor R$$$ buildings for on 2x4 lots. Note - this could change based on what lots/buildings you have downloaded and placed in your plugins folder.

Tip #2 - use your taxing powers to control the situation.

If you want to create a R$ city (with few or no R$$ or R$$$ sims) then raise the R$$ and R$$$ taxes up to the roof (19-20%);

or you can try a balancing act - of raising the R$$ and R$$$ taxes just enough to keep the R$$ and R$$$ demands for development at or near to zero, while lowering the R$ taxes to stimulate R$ demands for development.

-NetPCDoc

No detail is too small to be micromanaged.

[shmohel 1]

Yeah . . . Keep 'em stupid, Keep 'em thirsty. That'll do the trick!

[Prophet42 1,503]

Try zoning near a NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) structure. Like a power plant, sewer treatment plant or dirty industrial.  The poor land value around a NIMBY should keep the area in the poor house.  Also, make sure the R$ sims have enough job opportunities.  If all your industry and commercial are medium wealth or above, the R$ sims will not be able to find jobs and the areas will become abandoned or replaced with higher wealth sims.  Good luck.