California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video]

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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video]

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

Oct 22, 2025 - With this appropriation, General Fund support for this initiative since 2021-22 totals nearly $1  billion. The purpose of ERF is to help local communities address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate

May 27, 2016 - As the state law applicable to this mandate was repealed in June 2012, the Governor ’s budget makes no proposal to suspend, amend, or repeal the mandate. LAO Comments Sheriff Court-Security Services Mandate Would Be Added to Backlog.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3478

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Moreover, average summer temperatures in California were the hottest on record in 2021, breaking the previous June ‑through ‑August record set in 2017. In addition to higher average temperatures, California also will experience more frequent, intense, and prolonged heatwaves .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD plans to release the NOFA for $30 million (of the $45 million provided in 2021‑22) in March 2022 and anticipates making awards to facilitate excess site development in June 2022. HCD transferred the remaining $15 million to DGS through an architectural revolving fund in September 2021 for the investigation and remediation of environmental conditions on excess sites.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - These protections are set to expire on January 31, 2021. The 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget identifies his desire to continue some type of eviction protection past January 31, 2021, however, the budget does not provide details about an extension of the eviction moratorium.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312