The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

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

Oct 22, 2025 - In addition, the budget provides $883,000 General Fund for the Community Reconciliation Unit, which provides community-based conflict resolution an d training services. The funding extends both initiatives through June 2026.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 30, 2025 - For a more detailed discussion of the administration ’s rationale —which also applied to the mandate addressed in the Governor ’s January budget proposal —and our corresponding assessment, please see our recent post .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. (These are in addition to the four mandates —including the Santa Ana regional board mandate —which CSM already identified and assigned cost estimates over the past year.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - The majority of this funding —which includes the state General Fund, special funds, voter-approved bonds, and certain federal funds —has been allocated to the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and Cal ICH.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate [Publication Details]

May 28, 2024 - In this post, we discuss the Juvenile Custodial Interrogations mandate, which is a newly identified state mandate funded in the Governor’s 2024-25 May Revision budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4910

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Below, we discuss the Juvenile Custodial Interrogations mandate, which is a newly ide ntified state mandate funded in the Governor ’s 2024-25 May Revision budget. Background Arrested Youths Have Rights to Prevent Self-Incrimination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate [Publication Details]

May 2, 2023 - In this post, we discuss the County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate, which is a newly identified state mandate funded in an amendment to the Governor’s 2023-24 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4766

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

May 2, 2023 - Unlike Chapter  508, which established a similar redistricting commission for the County of San Diego, the requirements established under Chapter  781 were not requested by the County of Los Angeles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This pattern has been particularly notable in the last few years, which have seen some of the worst wildfires in the state ’s recorded history. For example, the 2018 wildfire season included the Camp Fire in Butte County, which became the single most damaging wildfire in state history with nearly 19,000  structures destroyed and 85 fatalities, including the near ‑total destruction of the town of Paradise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575