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

Feb 14, 2022 - However, in exploring the feasibility of affordable housing development on state excess sites, HCD  and the Department of General Services (DGS) indicate they encountered two recurring problems: (1)  lack of funding for environmental assessment and cleanup and (2)  lack of financing for affordable housing development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: An Overview [Video]

What ’s a Mandate —Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=43

What Is a Mandate? - What Is a Mandate: Learning Through Examples [Video]

What ’s a Mandate —Learning Through Examples explores different types of state laws and regulations and helps you walk through the steps to sort out whether or not they would be a state-reimbursable mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=42&videoId=42

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Since the focus of the state ’s program is on providing housing, grantees generally are limited to using non-ERF funds (such as local funds) for site restoration/clean-up activities. Beginning in 2023-24, budget bill provisional language has set aside ERF monies for local partnerships with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to address encampments fully or partially in a state right-of-way (such as state property adjacent to a freeway).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

A Look at Voter-Approval Requirements for Local Taxes [Publication Details]

Mar 20, 2014 - Recently, the Legislature has shown interest in exploring changes to voter-approval requirements for local taxes. Several proposals to place changes before the voters have been introduced during the current legislative session.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2978

Reconsidering AB 8: Exploring Alternative Ways to Allocate Property Taxes [Publication Details]

Feb 3, 2000 - Reconsidering AB 8: Exploring Alternative Ways to Allocate Property Taxes [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/657

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Some housing site inventories contain thousands of properties —for example, the city of Los Angeles ’ site inventory contains over 20,000 sites. To carry out this task, HCD historically has received funding in the millions of dollars per year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

Oct 17, 2019 - This program helps to fund infrastructure needed to support higher-density housing built on infill  sites —that  is, sites within already developed communities. Of this amount, $410  million is available to projects in all communities through a competitive grant process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

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

May 5, 2025 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - LAO Comments Post Election Manual Tally Mandate Would Be Added to Backlog. Under the Governor ’s proposal, county costs related to this mandate would be added to the existing backlog for mandate claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327