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

Oct 22, 2025 - Reinvestment of Equity in Affordable Housing Projects. The budget package allows affordable housing developers funded by HCD to access and reinvest equity in their affordable housing projects in order to finance further investments in other affordable housing projects, subject to specified limitations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Of the 72 projects that received tax credits, 18 projects shared the $200  million set aside for mixed ‑income housing. Collectively, these tax credits have resulted in the new construction of 6,550 low ‑income units.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 9, 2022 - DSS indicated that a joint request for applications (RFA) portal for CCE capital expansion projects and BH ‑CIP shovel ‑ready projects will be launched February 15 for counties, cities, tribes, non ‑profits, and for ‑profit organizations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Specifically, the basic steps of a new process could be: ( 1)   D etermine Household Growth Projections. The HCD would determine projections of total households for each county based on DOF demographic projections. ( 2)   A djust Household Growth Projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Provides financing for eligible projects that provide affordable multifamily rental housing for individuals, families, seniors, veterans or special needs tenants. Multifamily Lending. Provides long ‑term financing for affordable multifamily rental housing projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Climate models project that by mid‑century, Los Angeles County will experience an average of nine days of extreme heat per year, growing to 12 days per year by the final decades of the century. In contrast, Sacramento County is projected to experience 20 days per year of extreme heat by mid‑century and 28 days annually by the end of the century.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Ultimately the Governor aims to solicit affordable housing developers to build demonstration projects on excess state property that use creative and streamlined approaches to building (for example, using modular construction).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Of this amount, $410  million is available to projects in all communities through a competitive grant process. The remaining $90  million is reserved for projects in counties with populations less than 250,000 or cities within those counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Additionally, this proposal is in line with previous action by the Legislature to streamline CEQA for specific projects or types of projects. Refer to our March   2015 r eport, California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences , to learn more about how CEQA affects development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

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

Mar 4, 2020 - In the three years used by the Commission to determine the cost of the mandate, the number of fact-finding projects in a fiscal year ranged from 37 to 44 —averaging to about 40 cases each year. PERB provided us data on the number of fact-finding projects opened in the eight fiscal years between 2011 ‑12 and 2018 ‑19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190