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

Oct 22, 2025 - Our office ’s post, The 2025‑26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions , provides an update on this action as well as other wildfire-related actions included in the 2025-26 budget package. Suspends Four Newly Identified Mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - 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,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - Create public participation opportunities when updating and implementing various plans, guidance, and fact sheets. Develop a pilot program to control pollutant discharges from common interest areas and areas managed by homeowner associations or management companies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop a particular monitoring plan, update various maps in Geographic Information System format, and assess and report on effectiveness of runoff programs in meeting certain objectives, to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - 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,
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Mar 4, 2020 - The Commission ’s decision makes reimbursable by the state costs incurred by a local government to update policies and procedures, provide training, process requests from victims, complete certification documents for approved requests, and to report to the Legislature.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Update on AHSC Program Spending. In all, the AHSC Program has allocated nearly $2.5  billion GGRF over six rounds of funding through 2020 ‑21 and has contributed to the creation of 16,400  housing units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Major Milestones: Over Four Decades of the State-Local Fiscal Relationship [Publication Details]

Nov 29, 2012 - The latest version has been updated to reflect recent elections, 2011 realignment, and the dissolution of redevelopment and expanded to include milestones related to education finance. Note: The PDF file has three pages.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2669

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - LAO Comments Post Election Manual Tally Mandate Would Be Added to Backlog. Under the Governor ’s proposal, county costs related to this mandate would be added to the existing backlog for mandate claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327