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

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Funding the mandate would keep local compliance with the above requirements mandatory in 2024-25 and the state responsible for the costs incurred by local governments. LAO Comments Commission Estimate Reasonable, but Uncertain.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

Oct 17, 2019 - New Process for Housing Element Compliance.   The budget package creates a new judicial process by which cities and counties can be fined for failing to comply with housing element law. Moreover, the courts can appoint an agent of the court to bring the jurisdiction ’s housing element into compliance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

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

May 30, 2025 - This is because from 2018 onward, local governments have had sufficient authority to raise fees to pay for the costs of compliance due to the statutory chan ges that took effect at that time —thereby making it so the state is not required to reimburse local governments for their costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Funding the mandate would make local compliance with the above requirements mandatory in 2020-21 and the state responsible for the costs incurred by local governments. LAO Comments Future Fiscal Effects Difficult to Estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Finally, the state does not have a clear governance structure to track Opportunity Zone affordable housing investments and provide oversight and compliance monitoring. Given these limitations, it is not clear why the state should allocate new affordable housing dollars through an Opportunity Zone program as opposed to using established programs such as the state low-income housing tax credit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

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

Mar 4, 2020 - Funding the mandate would make local compliance with the above requirements mandatory in 2020 ‑21 and the state responsible for the costs incurred by local governments. LAO Comments Fiscal Effects Difficult to Estimate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190