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 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Second, any unawarded credits from the previous fiscal year can be added to the pool of available credits for the current fiscal year. Credit Pool Has Ballooned to over $923  million for the Current Year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2026-27 Budget: State Mandate—Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation

Feb 19, 2026 - The Commission determined that Los Angeles County incurred reimbursable costs processing deferment requests and adding the required disclosure to property tax bills. The Commission determined that the county incurred a total amount of about $30,000 in back-year costs (incurred between 2022 and 2024), and about $8,000 in ongoing costs thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

An Analysis of Proposition 4: The Gann "Spirit of 13" Initiative [Publication Details]

Dec 1, 1979 - An Analysis of Proposition 4: The Gann "Spirit of 13" Initiative [Publication Details] An Analysis of Proposition 4: The Gann "Spirit of 13" Initiative Format: PDF Description: On November 6, 1979, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 4, the "Spirit of 13" Initiative sponsored by Paul Gann.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3524

California’s First Film Tax Credit Program

Sep 29, 2016 - (We have previously commented on these, http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/stadm/letters/evaluate–film–tax–credit–061312.pdf and http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3489/cdfi–tax–credit–063016.pdf , and have controlled for some in our approach.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3502

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - If the Legislature approves this proposal, we recommend adding explicit requi rements to assess a grant applicant ’s inability to use tax credits. California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprises Grant Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - Tiered Ad Valorem Also Good for Administration and Compliance. A tiered ad valorem tax would be somewhat more complicated to administer than a basic ad valorem tax. However, as long as the number of rates were relatively small, a tiered ad valorem tax should not be overly difficult to administer.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125