2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Vote centers will be similar to polling places, but will offer more services than polling places and be open for more days. In addition, under the vote center model, all registered voters will receive a VBM ballot, not just those who have opted to do so.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget package requires a local government to perform annual inspections on every homeless shelter in its jurisdiction to ensure that the shelter is compliant with existing health and safety standards relating to housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Counties would be required to match every $2 of SSCAP funding with $1 of local funds. Assessor Reporting and Outcome Measurement. Participating counties would be required to report workload and outcome data to DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - One key question will be what role state programs and policies can and should play in adapting to climate change, including how they interact with local adaptation activities, and how they should be funded.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - Beginning with the 2020 redistricting cycle, state law now requires the supervisor districts of the County of Los Angeles to be redrawn every ten years by a 14-member independent redistricting commission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Every quarter, each CoC sends to HDIS various data collected in its local information system on persons they provided services to (such as a shelter bed or case management). According to HDIS, California ’s 44 CoCs collectively provided services to about 337,000 people (unduplicated) who were experiencing homelessness during calendar year 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Figure 2 Climate Change Impacts on Housing: Key Issues for Legislative Consideration What role should the state play in influencing where new homes are built? What steps should the state take to influence how new homes are built?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - Since 1790, the United States has conducted a census every ten years. Census results are used for many purposes, including reapportioning seats in the House of Representatives, realigning congressional and state legislative districts, and distributing roughly $400  billion in federal funds to the states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

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

May 5, 2025 - Hypothetically, if CSM approved all costs submitted by local governments in every test claim, the state could face —at most —costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In most cases when CSM approves a municipal stormwater test claim, however, it only partially approves costs (because it usually does not find all requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Other factors play a role in determining which neighborhoods experience displacement. A neighborhood ’s demographics and housing characteristics probably are important. Nonetheless, we continue to find that increased market –rate housing construction is linked to reduced displacement after using common statistical techniques to account for these factors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345