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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget authorizes $500  million for the state Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program. (This amount is in addition to about $130  million in statutorily required state tax credits for the program in 2025-26.) 2025-26 is the seventh consecutive year the Legislature has authorized a $500  million tax credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - For example, providing $ 500  m illion in subsidies to affordable housing builders would almost certainly yield around 5, 000 n ew units of housing. Given the uncertain benefits, we recommend the Legislature not appropriate $ 500  m illion for one ‑time rewards for locals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - How Maintenance of Local Streets and Roads Is Funded The 482 cities and 58 counties in California own and maintain over 325,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads, which represents 82  percent of the total lane-miles in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - In total, about 58  percent of the 14.6  million ballots cast in the November election in California were VBM ballots. The share of voters casting VBM ballots in that election varied across the state from fewer than one-half of voters casting their ballots by mail in Los Angeles, Lassen, and Merced Counties to more than 90  percent of registered voters voting by mail in Napa, Alpine, Plumas, and Sierra Counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

The 2016-17 Budget: Local Government Mandates--Reasonable Reimbursement Methodology

Mar 17, 2016 - Currently, there are 58 active education mandates and 22 active local government mandates for which the CSM has adopted Parameters and Guidelines. Of these, six mandates —Habitual Truants, Graduation Requirements, Behavioral Intervention Plans, Immunization Records (Pertussis), Peace Officers Procedural Bill of Rights, and Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharge —use an RRM.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3395

California's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit [Publication Details]

May 1, 1990 - In 1989 the Legislature enacted legislation (58 726, L. Greene) to continue the state low-income housing tax credit program as long as a related federal program exists. That legislation also requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to evaluate the effectiveness of this program. This policy brief provides the evaluation, and makes recommendations for changes to improve the program's effectiveness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/538

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget allocates $500  million to the California Housing Finance Agency ’s Mixed-Income Loan Program, which provides loans to builders of housing targeted at low- and middle-income households. Funding for Housing-Related Infrastructure Funding.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - The budget proposes a total of $ 500  m illion one ‑time General Fund towards housing tax credit programs. Of this amount, $ 300  m illion would be allocated to the state ’s existing Low ‑Income Housing Tax Credit program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A  2018   report  by the State Coastal Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy found that 55 percent of California’s existing coastal habitats are highly vulnerable to five feet of sea‑level rise, including 60 percent of the state’s iconic beaches and 58 percent of its marshes. 
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - The budget proposes $1  billion General Fund in 2022 ‑23 and $500  million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 to address the immediate housing and treatment needs of people with complex behavioral health conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521