The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - The amount of private activity bonds CDLAC has designated for affordable rental housing in recent years has varied somewhat —from a high of 93   percent to a low of 86   percent. We find that designating the vast majority of private activity bonds for this purpose, as CDLAC has done, is consistent with good public policy given (1)  the state ’s priority to
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - What role do county policies and processes and the design and operation of automation and data systems play in determining the state ’s error rates in each program? Do some counties have significantly higher or lower error rates than others and are there practices or other circumstances that contribute to this  variation?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program Favorable Effects Well ‑supported At least two studies with nonoverlapping samples carried out in usual care or practice settings must achieve a rating of moderate or high on design and execution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2025-26 Budget: CWS-CARES

Mar 5, 2025 - The project ’s holistic design approach incorporates additional milestone design review focused on understanding how program processes work from start to finish under different scenarios. The additional design review incorporates user feedback, and looks across child welfare service areas to identify milestone interdependencies prior to their development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5006

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget package allocates funds authorized by Proposition  4, which provided $10  billion in bond funds for activities designed to increase the state ’s resilience to the impacts of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As mentioned, CalWORKs is designed to assist families in poverty. Therefore, the fact that many CalWORKs families have characteristics more similar to those of Californians in poverty than to those of the general population is not surprising.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Major project milestones for 2025-26 are expected to include the design, build, and testing of numerous system modules related to case plans, aftercare, adoptions, hearin gs, facilities, tracking costs and claiming, and tracking service delivery.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Federal CalWORKs Pilot

Feb 21, 2025 - It is our understanding that pilot states will be required to participate in a federally funded pilot implementation and outcomes study, which will be designed by a federal third-party contractor in consultation with the pilot states (the timing of the study is not known at this time).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4978

The 2024-25 Budget: IS and IT Project Proposal Tables

Feb 9, 2024 - The table focuses on 2024 ‑25 funding and positions. c CalSTRS is not required to submit their IT projects through CDT ’s IT project approval and oversight processes, so there is no open CDT project number. d DCA completed the initial design, development, and implementation of the BreEZe IT system, so there is no open CDT project number.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4836

The 2024-25 Budget: Department of Social Services Immigration and Equity Programs

Mar 15, 2024 - As shown in the figure, many previously state funded programs designed to support immigrant populations are set to expire in the budget year. Additionally, the Governor ’s budget proposes a few reductions to immigration and equity programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4885