The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - BCSH = Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; CHHA = California Housing and Homelessness Agency; Cal ICH = California Interagency Council on Homelessness; and HDFC = Housing Development and Finance Committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Since 2021, the state ’s California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), an entity within the Business, Consumer Services and Housing (BCSH) Agency charged with coordinating the state ’s efforts to address homelessness, has maintained a Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II The 2020-21 Budget Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II Constitution Requires the State to Reimburse Local Governments for Mandated Activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Federal law also requires applicants provide a certification document —completed by certain government officials within an agency responsible for criminal investigations and prosecutions (such as a police department, district attorney ’s office, or child protective services agency) —certifying that the applicant (1)  is a victim of a qualifying crime and (2)  has been or is likely to be helpful in the investigation or prosecution of that crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2011-12 Budget: Should California End Redevelopment Agencies? [Publication Details]

Feb 8, 2011 - The 2011-12 Budget: Should California End Redevelopment Agencies? [Publication Details] The 2011-12 Budget: Should California End Redevelopment Agencies? Format: HTML Description: California’s expansive use of redevelopment has engendered significant controversy.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2440

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Designate Administrative Agency to Track and Monitor Investments. A state agency (or agencies) should be tasked with tracking and monitoring compliance of Opportunity Zone investments. Investors (or entities carrying out Opportunity Zone investments) should be required to report to the state the location and amount of the investment, as well as
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2014 - Instead, they have opted to use alternative methods to fund infrastructure, including using redevelopment agency funds. The dissolution of redevelopment agencies in 2011 has prompted calls for a review of the financing tools available to local governments to fund infrastructure and local economic development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2970

The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2012 - The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment [Publication Details] Video Description: On February 1, 2012, all redevelopment agencies in California were dissolved and the process for unwinding their financial affairs began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2564

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Although the state ultimately is responsible for paying the costs local agencies incurred complying with a reimbursable mandate while the commission was reviewing associated claims, the Legislature can modify or repeal the associated statute to adjust state fiscal liabilities moving forward.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565