The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Stakes of Interrogations Are High for Youths. Interrogations can have significant implications on outcomes for youths in the juvenile justice system. As discussed above, the information collected through an interrogation can be used to file a petition in juvenile court.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

Realignment of Parole Could Improve Public Safety and Help Address Budget Shortfall [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2008 - We propose a nearly $500 million realignment of responsibility for supervision of low-level criminal offenders from the state parole system to county probation. Funding for parole realignment would come from a reallocation of waste and water district property taxes, city Proposition 172 sales taxes, and vehicle license fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1740

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - 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. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - While state requirements presently exist or are planned for the construction of new homes and communities in areas currently designated as being at high risk of wildfire or under the state ’s responsibility for fire protection, these requirements do not cover other areas that may become high risk in the near future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video]

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Consequences of California's High Housing Costs [Video] Search LAO Videos California 's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences March 17, 2015 In this series of short videos, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analysts Chas Alamo and Brian Uhler discuss the many factors that have a role in
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=20&videoId=139

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video]

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - California's High Housing Costs - Overview [Video] Search LAO Videos California 's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences March 17, 2015 In this series of short videos, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analysts Chas Alamo and Brian Uhler discuss the many factors that have a role in driving
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California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video] Search LAO Videos California 's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences March 17, 2015 In this series of short videos, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analysts Chas Alamo and Brian Uhler discuss the many factors that have a role in driving California 's
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The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Second, existing state affordable housing programs seek to spread affordable housing across all communities in an effort to increase access to high amenity neighborhoods and avoid further concentration of low-income households in high -poverty areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Increased Supply, Lower Costs Lack of Supply Drives High Housing Costs. As we demonstrate in California ’s High Housing Costs , a shortage of housing results in high and rising housing costs. When the number of households seeking housing exceeds the number of units available, households must try to outbid each other, driving up prices and rents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345