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

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 augmentation will be the third round of funding for this program (with $500  million authorized in 2022-23 and $20  million in 2023-24). Funding for Affordable Housing. The budget provides $120  million one-time General Fund for the Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), HCD ’s flagship affordable housing program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 20, 2019 - For example, providing $ 500  m illion in subsidies to affordable housing builders would almost certainly yield around 5, 000 n ew units of housing. Given the uncertain benefits, we recommend the Legislature not appropriate $ 500  m illion for one ‑time rewards for locals.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Governor ’s 2022 ‑23 Budget Proposal Continues One ‑Time Expansion of State Low Income Housing Tax Credits. In addition to the $100  million annually that the state makes available for housing tax credits, the Governor ’s budget proposes $500  million for tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low ‑income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 9, 2022 - The budget proposes $1  billion General Fund in 2022 ‑23 and $500  million General Fund in 2023 ‑24 to address the immediate housing and treatment needs of people with complex behavioral health conditions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The budget allocates $500  million to the California Housing Finance Agency ’s Mixed-Income Loan Program, which provides loans to builders of housing targeted at low- and middle-income households. Funding for Housing-Related Infrastructure Funding.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - The budget proposes a total of $ 500  m illion one ‑time General Fund towards housing tax credit programs. Of this amount, $ 300  m illion would be allocated to the state ’s existing Low ‑Income Housing Tax Credit program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

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

Jan 24, 2020 - How Maintenance of Local Streets and Roads Is Funded The 482 cities and 58 counties in California own and maintain over 325,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads, which represents 82  percent of the total lane-miles in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - In 2017 ‑18, tasks completed by the assessor staff in a participating county resulted in an increase of $500  million in taxable property values. In 2018 ‑19, the county receives SSCAP funding to hire five new staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

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

May 5, 2025 - Citing previous court decisions, including the 2002 and 2022 appellate court decisions, CSM also concluded that local governments in the Santa Ana case lacked sufficient authority to raise fees during the historic period and that SB  231 did not apply retroactively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - In total, about 58  percent of the 14.6  million ballots cast in the November election in California were VBM ballots. The share of voters casting VBM ballots in that election varied across the state from fewer than one-half of voters casting their ballots by mail in Los Angeles, Lassen, and Merced Counties to more than 90  percent of registered voters voting by mail in Napa, Alpine, Plumas, and Sierra Counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786