not only are financial and human resources often scarce there is also low flexibility with respect to how resources are allocated and used this is detrimental to a city s ability to increase the quality of life for its residents for example an evaluation of subnational financing dimensions relative to cities that scored in the top five for quality of life based on the universidad catolicas quality of life index signals a moderate to strong correlation between higher rankings and a municipality s ability to generate ownsource income and the amount of income budgeted per resident table