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

Oct 22, 2025 - Housing-Related Budget Actions Additional Funding for California Dream for All Program. The budget appropriates $300  million one-time General Fund for the California Dream for All program. The program, which is administered by the California Housing Finance Agency, provides downpayment assistance to eligible first-time, first-generation homebuyers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 30, 2025 - All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018. The Governor ’s January budget proposal addressed the first mandate, proposing to retroactively suspend the mandate and not fund local governments ’ past costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - Hypothetically, if CSM approved all costs submitted by local governments in every test claim, the state could face —at most —costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In most cases when CSM approves a municipal stormwater test claim, however, it only partially approves costs (because it usually does not find all requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 2, 2023 - In order to provide equal and lawful representation of residents across all districts of a representative body for a jurisdiction, district boundaries of elective offices must be redrawn every ten years after the federal government releases the findings from the census.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - Moreover, depending on the amount of eligible costs subm itted by all state and local entities for reimbursement, the federal government may need to further increase the appropriation to DRF if it is to ensure that all affected governments receive full reimbursement for all eligible costs, as it did with the passage of the CARES Act.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment [Publication Details]

Feb 17, 2012 - The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment [Publication Details] Video Description: On February 1, 2012, all redevelopment agencies in California were dissolved and the process for unwinding their financial affairs began.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2564

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - The administration estimates that providing $134  million would cover half of the cost to update all counties ’ voting equipment. This estimate assumes almost all counties implement the vote center model.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Then, average the percentages across all income categories to obtain a single progress rate. ( 3)   C ompare RHNA Progress to Statewide Average. Average the progress rates across all cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Should all of SCO ’s remaining audit reductions remain unchallenged or upheld, however, the commission estimates that state costs for reimbursing this mandate could be as low as  $8.8   million. No Future Costs Anticipated for This Mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565