The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - (Separately, the Legislature has provided Caltrans with funding for encampment clean-up purposes and to improve coordination with local jurisdictions.) Figure 2 Through 2024 ‑25, the State Has Provided $900 Million for Four Rounds of ERF General Fund (In Millions)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Some key questions to consider about the current proposal include: (1) what would happen to resources once permanent housing comes online, (2) how quickly can the bridge‑funded units be up and running, (3) how does the timing align with the anticipated schedule for more permanent options, (4) does the proposed bridge housing solution make sense for individuals with behavioral
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details] The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding Format: HTML Description: The Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) program provides grants for local communities to address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

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

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

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget Act appropriates $100  million one-time General Fund for Round 5 of the ERF initiative —consistent with an agreement between the Legislature and Governor as part of June 2024 negotiations over the final 2024-25 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - There may be certain targeted areas where providing some financial support for these activities has merit, such as providing “seed money ” to help spur local adaptation project planning efforts. (As discussed above, the 2021 ‑22 budget package included funding through both HCD and OPR for regional planning activities.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Households forced to live somewhere else do not show up in a community ’s past demographic trends and therefore are not reflected in RHNA calculations. They nonetheless contribute to the unmet demand for housing and resulting high housing costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Census identifies (1)  the number of people who live in the United States and (2)  where people live across the country. The census shows changes in the number of people living in a jurisdiction and collects information regarding the demographics and characteristics of those people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Specifically, our office revised estimates for monthly nonhousing costs upward from $8, 000 p er person, per year to $12, 000 p er person, per year to reflect a higher cost of living in California. We also revised available savings downward from the original model assumption that renter households had 5  p ercent of their annual income in available savings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312