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

Oct 22, 2025 - Fee revenue is to b e deposited into a fund administered by HCD and used to fund VMT-reducing projects such as affordable housing near transit stops. The Governor ’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation is required by July 2026 to issue initial guidance for this new program, including providing details such as the methodologies for determining the amount of the fee and estimating the anticipated reduction in VMT resulting from payment of the fee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 20, 2019 - We suggest the Legislature engage the administration in a discussion of the ( 1)  a llocation process, ( 2)  e ligible activities and program guidelines, and ( 3)  e xpected housing production achievements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

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

May 30, 2025 - Governor ’s Proposal Suspends Mandates for Time Period in Question, Does Not Reimburse Local Governments for Their Past Costs. The Governor ’s revised 2025-26 budget proposes to suspend the three mandates discussed above, which CSM determined were reimbursable by the state for the pre-2018 time periods noted.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Nevertheless, the point-in-time count can serve as a useful indicator of broad homelessness trends over time. In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 5, 2025 - CSM determined these requirements were state-reimbursable mandates for that time frame. However, the administration maintains that local governments could have raised local fees to cover their costs during that time frame and therefore proposes suspending the requirements for that period and n ot reimbursing them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Feb 21, 2019 - In particular, the administration should explain ( 1)  l ocal matching requirements for the additional funds; ( 2)  e ligibility requirements for WPC pilot participants; and ( 3)  h ow state funds will expand, rather than supplant, existing federal and local funding for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Ultimately, the state would have limited recourse when it comes to funding costs incurred by local governments from activities the commission finds to be reimbursable mandates during the tim e the mandate claims were under review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

Mar 4, 2020 - The law requires employee representatives and employers to do specific activities within specific time frames to set up the fact-finding panel and to aid the panel in its work. The fact-finding panel makes findings of fact and recommends advisory terms of settlement to the parties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - For instance, if there are broad, long ‑standing changes to where people chose to live and work, the pandemic could, over time, change the key economic drivers of a community. As an example, some employers may continue to provide their employees additional flexibility to work remotely even after the COVID ‑ 19 e mergency subsides.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Glaeser, E. L., & Luttmer, E. F. (2003). The Misallocation of Housing Under Rent Control. The American Economic Review , 93 (4). Guerrieri, V., Hartley, D., & Hurst, E. (2013). Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345