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May 30, 2025 - In this post, we discuss the Governor's May Revision budget proposal to retroactively suspend three municipal stormwater mandates.
May 5, 2025 - In this budget post, we discuss a municipal stormwater mandate issued by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board in 2009 for local governments in Orange County.
March 5, 2025 - The Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) program provides grants for local communities to address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there. To assist the Legislature in its fiscal oversight role of this large and multiyear program, this post: (1) provides data on the size of the population of people experiencing homelessness in California and recent state spending on housing and homelessness; (2) describes the ERF program’s goals, funding, and reporting requirements; (3) provides an update on ERF grantee awards, spending, and outcomes data available as of this writing; and (4) provides an assessment and makes an associated recommendation to the Legislature.
February 27, 2025 - Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on State Administration
May 28, 2024 - In this post, we discuss the Juvenile Custodial Interrogations mandate, which is a newly identified state mandate funded in the Governor’s 2024-25 May Revision budget.
August 22, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Health and Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development
July 14, 2023 - Review of Recent Department of Social Services Housing and Homelessness Augmentations
May 2, 2023 - In this post, we discuss the County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate, which is a newly identified state mandate funded in an amendment to the Governor’s 2023-24 budget.
March 7, 2023 - Presented to: Senate Housing Committee Senate Committee on Human Services
February 28, 2023 - Presented to: Senate Housing Committee Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development
February 15, 2023 - Presented to: Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, Assembly Committee on Health, Assembly Committee on Human Services,
February 6, 2023 - Presented to: Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
April 5, 2022 - This report focuses on how a changing climate is affecting the housing sector and key issues the Legislature faces in responding to those impacts. This is one of a series of reports summarizing how climate change will impact different sectors across California.
April 5, 2022 - This report contains four primary sections: (1) a description of the five key climate hazards affecting California, (2) the major ways those hazards impact sectors across the state, (3) significant existing state‑level efforts underway to address climate change impacts, and (4) key issues for the Legislature to consider in response to these impacts. This is one of a series of reports summarizing how climate change will impact different sectors across California.