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

May 5, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by the C ommission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Oct 22, 2025 - At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value. Borrowers ’ repayments, in turn, will be used to provide loans to additional homebuyers in the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Guerrieri, V., Hartley, D., & Hurst, E. (2013). Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics. Journal of Public Economics , Volume 100 (C), 45 –60 . Gyourko, J., & Linneman, P. (1990). Rent Controls and Rental Housing Quality: A Note on the Effects of New York City ’s Old Controls.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Adaptive Reuse Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Establishes New, Temporary Adaptive Reuse Program. The budget proposes $50  million General Fund in 2022 ‑23, and $50  million in 2023 ‑24, for a new adaptive reuse incentive grant program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 30, 2025 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified by CSM as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Despite the general federal direction to the state water boards to reduce the discharge of pollutants, however, courts have found that specific permit conditions required by the boards but not explicitly stated in federal law can be state ‑reimbursable mandates ( Department of Finance v.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Property Tax Agents at the Local Level in California: An Overview [Publication Details]

Jun 20, 2012 - Presented to Revenue and Taxation Committee, Hon. Henry T. Perea, Chair and Assebmly Local Government Committee, Hon. Cameron Smyth, Chair
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2646

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Comparing cities ’ permit growth in 2000 t o growth in 2001 we find no evidence of an increase in permitting. As Figure  4 shows, there were fewer cities with permit growth just above 12  p ercent in 2001 t han in 2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - While current state regulations require that landlords provide their tenants with heating facilities to maintain a minimum temperature of 70 degrees, there is no comparable requiremen t for cooling mechanisms to avoid exceeding any maximum threshold.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified b y the Commission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandates should be repealed, funded, suspended, or modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910