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

Oct 22, 2025 - Chapter  22 imposes a six-year suspension (through mid-2031) of new residential-building standards by both the state and local governments, with specified exceptions for standards pertaining to health and safety and certain other exceptions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 14, 2022 - In all, the AHSC Program has allocated nearly $2.5  billion GGRF over six rounds of funding through 2020 ‑21 and has contributed to the creation of 16,400  housing units. Across all six rounds, the projects are estimated to reduce pollutants in the air equivalent to getting about 90,000 cars off the road for one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 5, 2025 - (In addition, four of the six required activities were one time in nature and thus local governments have already completed them without cause to incur further costs.) …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A recent scientific  study  by United States Geological Survey researchers predicted that under scenarios of three feet to six feet of sea‑level rise, up to two‑thirds of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded by 2100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - As compared to additional funding for supportive housing —which would take years to result in new housing units —allotting funding for short ‑term assistance would help move more people out of homelessness in the near term while NPLH is ramping up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - We then summarize state funding in recent years related to housing and homelessness. Last Year ’s Point-in-Time Count Identified More Than 180,000 Californians Experiencing Homelessness. A long-standing way that California and the rest of the United States have estimated the number of people experiencing homelessness is through a point-in-time count.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Mar 4, 2020 - PERB provided us data on the number of fact-finding projects opened in the eight fiscal years between 2011 ‑12 and 2018 ‑19. Like the three years used by the Commission, the average number of opened fact-finding cases across these eight fiscal years also averaged to about 40 cases each year; however, the range was much more wide with only 15 cases in 2011 ‑12 and 59 cases in 2012 ‑13.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - If investors hold on to the investment for multiple years, their tax liability on their deferred capital gains can be reduced. In addition, investors that maintain their investment for at least ten years will not be taxed on any capital gains earned on their Opportunity Zone investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - In recent years, much of the new housing construction in the state has occurred in areas that are at significant risk of the effects of climate change. For example, over the past decade, six out of ten of the state ’s fastest growing counties have been in the Central Valley and Inland Empire, which are regions that are a comparatively high risk of excessive heat.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 9, 2022 - DHCS intends to make BH ‑CIP grant funds available through six rounds. Under this schedule, funding through rounds one and two were made available in 2021 and some awards were made. Round one ($150  million) is focused on mobile crisis infrastructure and round two ($16  million) is focused on local planning activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521