California Tribal Casinos: Questions and Answers [Publication Details]

Feb 1, 2007 - California Tribal Casinos: Questions and Answers [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/1545

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

Oct 22, 2025 - In addition, trailer bill legislation creates new exemptions from CEQA requirements for various categories of projects, including specified “infill ” housing developments (such as certain projects on vacant land within an urban area), farmworker housing, rural health clinics, day care centers, food banks, broadband deployment in a right-of-way, and advanced manufacturing facilities (with each exemption type subject to various requirements and limitations).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Mar 4, 2020 - The purpose of a fact-finding panel is to provide a mechanism for employers and employees to overcome their disagreements at the table and reach an agreement. Commission Determined Legislation Created a State-Reimbursable Mandate.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

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

Feb 9, 2022 - However, certain types of spending, like some funding for capital outlay, are excluded from this limit. Some prior homelessness funding —such as General Fund spending on the Homekey Program —has met the SAL definition of capital outlay and has been excluded from the limit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 5, 2025 - Introduction This post begins by providing background about stormwater permit requirements, CSM ’s process for determining whether state-imposed requirements for local governments are mandates subject to state reimbursement, and how voter-approved Proposition  218 (1996) complicates local governments ’ ability to increase fees to cover these types of costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 12, 2021 - For example, some types of special districts, such as fire protection districts that provide emergency response, were directly involved in responding to COVID ‑19 and had associated costs, while other special districts, like mosquito and vector control districts, may have been less affected by COVID ‑19 and likely had more limited expenditure pressures as a result.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Many studies have been conducted on these types of programs, but there is no consensus among researchers about whether these programs improve the economic situations of residents in targeted communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - This type of model allows us to hold constant various economic and demographic factors and isolate the impact of increased market –rate construction on the likelihood of displacement. The results of our regression are show in Figure A1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The scale of climate change impacts on housing will vary geographically and across housing types. In many cases, impacts will be felt most acutely by low ‑income households who disproportionately live in (1)  areas of the state that will be exposed to higher risks and (2)  types of housing that are typically less resilient.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584