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: State Mandate—Disclosure Requirements and Deferral of Property Taxation

Feb 19, 2026 - After Proposition  19 went into effect, a backlog of claims developed, and some tax bills were sent to property owners that had not been updated to reflect the lower amounts they were entitled to pay under the terms of Proposition  19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5130

How High? Adjusting California’s Cannabis Taxes

Dec 17, 2019 - However, for a given type of product, heavy users might pay lower prices —and proportionally lower ad valorem taxes —than infrequent users. This could happen, for example, if heavy users tend to obtain bulk discounts or if they tend to be more price ‑sensitive than infrequent users.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4125

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: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - Some of the revenues from this tax pay for CDTFA ’s administration of the program, including enforcement activities. Most of the revenues pay for child care, environmental protection, and other types of programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5132

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

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24

Sep 16, 2025 - Racial/Ethnic Composition of Rebate-Paying Jurisdictions Noticeably Different From Statewide Average. Figure  5 shows that the racial and ethnic composition of rebate-paying jurisdictions is substantially different from other parts of the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5074

Local Sales Tax Rebates in 2023-24 [Publication Details]

Sep 16, 2025 - Some of California's local governments offer partial sales tax rebates to try to boost the amount of taxable sales within their borders. In 2023-24, these rebates totaled $140 million. In this post, we describe the distribution of rebate payments across cities and counties. We also examine some economic and demographic characteristics of rebate-paying jurisdictions.
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