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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget package authorizes the Department of Finance (DOF) to provide $8  million of the planned $500  million to HCD in 2025-26 to “prepare to administer ” Round 7. Housing-Related Budget Actions Additional Funding for California Dream for All Program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The Commission estimates that the initial state cost of claims from local governments related to the mandate between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22 could range between $37,000 and $1.2  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 2, 2023 - Beginning with the 2020 redistricting cycle, state law now requires the supervisor districts of the County of Los Angeles to be redrawn every ten years by a 14-member independent redistricting commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II The 2020-21 Budget Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II Constitution Requires the State to Reimburse Local Governments for Mandated Activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

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

May 12, 2021 - While 25 p ercent of cities received federal funds that constituted at least 20 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues, 5 p ercent of cities ( 24 c ities) received federal funds that constituted only between 0. 03 p ercent and 3. 8 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate The 2020-21 Budget U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate Constitution Requires the State to Reimburse Local Governments for Mandated Activities. State law tasks the Commission on State Mandates with determining whether new state laws or regulations affecting local governments create state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - The road improvement fee will begin July 1, 2020 and will charge an annual $100 vehicle registration fee on zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) model year 2020 and later. In flationary adjustments for the transportation improvement fee and the road improvement fee will begin January 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - Census will be conducted in 2020. Information Collected in the Decennial Census. The U.S. Census counts every person who lives in the United States (including territories like Puerto Rico) whether he or she is a citizen, legal resident, or undocumented immigrant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, a  2015   economic assessment  by the Risky Business Project estimated that if current global GHG emission trends continue, between $8 billion and $10 billion of existing property in California is likely to be underwater by 2050, with an additional $6 billion to $10 billion at risk during high tide.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575