The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - Because 9   percent tax credits generally deliver more than twice the equity of 4   percent credits, they can be a powerful tool for supporting deeply affordable housing projects (that is, projects targeting people with the lowest income levels).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - Extending the funding aims to allow counties to continue drawing down the funding to support home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to children in foster care and their foster caregivers. $4  million General Fund for Addressing Complex Care Needs is reappropriated for encumbrance and expenditure through June 30, 2027.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The  main differences between our estimates  include: Revenue Estimates Higher by $9   Billion. Over the budget window —2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑ 26 —the administration ’s estimates of revenues (excluding policy proposals) are higher than our November 2024 estimate by $9  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

The 2023-24 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2023 - Specifically, the administration forecasts operating deficits ranging from $4  billion to $9  billion over the multiyear period. We recommend the Legislature avoid enacting a budget that plans for future deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4662

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Figure  4 shows how 2024-25 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels compare to 2025-26 maximum SSI/SSP grant levels and the administration ’s estimates of the 2026-27 federal SSI grant increase. The projected increases to maximum SSI/SSP grant levels in 2026-27 are entirely due to the estimated federal SSI COLA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2020-21 Budget: Department of Social Services

Feb 24, 2020 - The administration projects that IHSS caseload would increase, on average, by 968 c ases in 2020 ‑21, increasing to roughly 4, 600 c ases in 2021 ‑22. The administration estimates the costs of this proposal to be $5. 9  m illion in 2020 ‑21, increasing to $ 120  m illion in 2021 ‑22.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4175

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The spending plan also includes $9  million General Fund on a one-time basis for the Diaper Bank program, which provides funding to food banks for the distribution of diapers and wipes to low-income families with young children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  9 , the statewide CalWORKs participation rate was about 9  percent in 2023 ‑24. However, across counties, county ‑level CalWORKs participation rates (among families with children) varied from under 3  percent in certain counties (such as San Mateo, Placer, and Marin Counties) to over 20  percent in other counties (such as Del Norte and Imperial  Counties).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor's IT Project Proposals

Feb 20, 2020 - The total cost of these resources are $72. 8  m illion ($37. 8  m illion General Fund) in 2020 ‑21, $12. 6  m illion ($9. 1  m illion General Fund) in 2021 ‑22, $4. 9  m illion ($3. 1  m illion General Fund) in 2022 ‑23, and $2. 2  m illion ($1. 5  m illion General Fund) in 2023 ‑24 and ongoing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4170