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

Feb 20, 2019 - The Governor ’s plan to establish state ‑defined housing goals and have local governments carry out planning to meet these goals is not a new strategy. The state has carried out such a strategy for years with limited results.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Encampment resolution is a strategy to address unsheltered homelessness among groups of people sleeping outside (often in tents or other temporary structures) in the same location. The purpose of encampment resolution is to provide outreach and other help to the people living in an encampment and to transition them to housing —either directly to permanent housing or to a short-term housing arrangement (such as an emergency shelter) while permanent housing is secured for them.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 9, 2022 - This program is established in recognition of a need to develop effective, scalable, and replicable strategies that meet the specific, complex needs of individuals living in encampments. The program received nearly 40  applications requesting $120  million in resources.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 5, 2025 - Public education and outreach: Complete a public awareness survey to determine the effectiveness of the current public and business education strategy. Hold individual or regional workshops annually for specified sectors, including manufacturing, retail, construction, and landscaping industries.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

Feb 14, 2022 - As the impact of recent budget augmentations and policy changes start to come to light, this will better position the Legislature to determine where continued actions are necessary and help guide the state ’s long ‑term fiscal strategy in addressing housing development and affordability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - The state likely also will incur costs from the need to expand its workforce in other areas to respond to climate change impacts —such as by hiring additional engineers and scientists to assess vulnerabilities, plan for adaptation strategies, and design and implement the state ’s responses to climate risks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - This, however, does not preclude these programs from playing a role in a broader strategy to improve California ’s housing affordability. Below, we discuss these issues in more detail. Expanding Assistance Programs Would Be Very Expensive Extending housing assistance to low –income Californians who currently do not receive it —either through subsidies for affordable units or housing vouchers —would require an annual funding commitment in the low tens of billions of dollars.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345