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 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - This information could help guide the state ’s long ‑term fiscal and policy role in addressing homelessness. For instance, if Homekey were determined to be an effective state ‑level intervention, the Legislature could consider establishing an infrastructure fund to support the purchase and rehabilitation of facilities over many years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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 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

Understanding Proposition 218 [Publication Details]

Dec 17, 1996 - The purpose of this guide is to help the Legislature, local officials, and other parties understand Proposition 218, including the actions local governments must take to implement it.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/658

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

May 12, 2021 - (Our recent publication, A Framework for Allocating Federal Recovery Funds , lays out some guiding principles for the Legislature to consider as it formulates a plan for using the fiscal recovery funds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The  Legislature could consider whether additional risk factors should help guide where state ‑funded affordable housing is built, given the amount of state investment involved and the vulnerable communities it serves.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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