The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement

Mar 11, 2025 - Campuses receive grants from California Volunteers that include funding for Fellows ’ living stipends. Campuses are responsible for distributing these living stipends to Fellows on a monthly basis. California Volunteers also gives campuses funding for some education award coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5015

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Specifically, the funding would support Adult Residential Facilities and Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly —often jointly referred to as board and care facilities or assisted living facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2020 Census: Potential Impacts on California

Dec 13, 2018 - In budgetary terms, this amount of money is very small. (Federal funds distributed directly to local governments also could be affected, but the size of this effect is unknown.) Complete and Accurate Count in 2020 Still Important.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3909

Considering Changes to Streamline Local Housing Approvals

May 17, 2016 - Developers are eligible for benefits under the Density Bonus Law if they set aside 10 percent of their housing for low-income households or 5 percent for very-low-income households. (While these are the minimum eligibility requirements, projects setting aside additional housing may receive additional benefits.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3470

The 2018-19 Budget: Census Outreach

Mar 8, 2018 - Reduced Follow Up. The Census Bureau expects to hire 50  percent fewer fieldworkers for nonresponse follow up in 2020. Consequently, field operations will be substantially reduced in 2020. In previous years, census field workers visited households that had not yet responded up to six times to complete their surveys.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3780

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during Public Safety Power Shutoff events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - In this follow up to California ’s High Housing Costs , we offer additional evidence that facilitating more private housing development in the state ’s coastal urban communities would help make housing more affordable for low –income Californians.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

Update on COVID-19 Spending in California

Nov 5, 2020 - We consider this “flexible funding, ” because, essentially, these additional federal funds free up General Fund dollars that can be spent on any purpose. Designated Funding Unemployment Insurance (UI).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4292

Mental Health Services Act: Proposed Bond to Fund Behavioral Health Facilities and Veterans Housing

Aug 17, 2023 - Bonds are a way that the state (as well as local governments and private companies) borrows money. The state sells bonds to investors to receive “up-front ” funding for projects and then repays investors, with interest, over a period of time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4790

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program

Oct 8, 2018 - The largest of these fees is the mortgage insurance premium (which pays for the FHA ‑backed mortgage), which is charged up front at 2  p ercent of the appraised value and ongoing of 0. 5  p ercent of the loan balance for standard HECM loans.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3885