The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - State Administers ERF Competitive Grants for Local Jurisdictions. In 2021-22, the Legislature created the ERF program and charged Cal ICH with administering it. The purpose of ERF is to provide competitive grants to cities, counties, and CoCs to address “critical encampment concerns ” in their communities and transition individuals to “safe and stable housing, ” with a focus on permanent housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Oct 22, 2025 - Provisional language exempts the department from having to go through the state ’s contracting process to obtain a vendor to run the initiative, but includes language stating legislative intent that any future funding for the program use a competitive-bid process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Households looking to move to California or within California would therefore continue to face stiff competition for limited housing, making it difficult for them to secure housing that they can afford.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - Of this amount, $410  million is available to projects in all communities through a competitive grant process. The remaining $90  million is reserved for projects in counties with populations less than 250,000 or cities within those counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - Given the competitive nature of the tax credit program, developers often commit to serving households with much lower income to bolster their application for the credit. Establishes New State Housing Tax Credit Program Targeting Households With Relatively Higher Incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Under this program, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) provides competitive grants to local entities to increase behavioral health infrastructure, predominantly by constructing, acquiring, or renovating facilities for community behavioral health services (contingent on these local entities providing matching funds and committing to providing funding for ongoing services).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Specifically, ( 1)  h ow will the program measure success given the data collection challenges the administration has faced in the pilot, ( 2)  w hich counties will be eligible for additional HDAP funding, ( 3)  w hether the funds will be made available through a competitive process or set allocations, and ( 4)  w hether counties would be required to match state funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Establish an annual limit for income tax revenue losses and create a competitive process to allocate Opportunity Zone benefits to potential investors to allow state input and oversight on which projects receive tax-advantaged investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

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