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

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 5, 2025 - Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis. In those cases, the suspension also makes the required activity optional for local governments to conduct for that forthcoming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Should it become clear that there are not benefits of providing youths with legal counsel at this stage of the juvenile justice process —or that the benefits of doing so do not justify the costs —the Legislature could suspend the mandate at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not get recorded in a CoC data system) —or accessed services from a provider who is not part of a CoC (such as veterans experiencing homelessness who received services exclusively from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 2, 2023 - The Commission found that Chapter  781 requires the County of Los Angeles to do a number of activities that constitute state-reimbursable mandates. Some of these activities are one time for each cycle.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Feb 20, 2019 - While it is reasonable for the state to ask cities and counties to do all they can do to plan for and facilitate a particular amount of home building, holding them entirely accountable for outcomes that they do not completely control may be unreasonable. . . .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Considering the State's Role in Elections - How Do Elections Work Today? [Video]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video How Do Elections Work Today? May 3, 2017
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=109

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Housing programs such as vouchers, rent control, and inclusionary housing that do not add to the state ’s housing stock do little to address these issues. Scarcity of Housing Undermines Housing Vouchers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

Mar 23, 2017 - For the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau will only be doing in-field canvassing where addresses cannot be verified through other means. LAO Comments. Given the impact the U.S. Census results can have on California, taking steps to ensure an accurate count is meritorious.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, new housing that is built in areas that are expected to face hig h wildfire risks will encounter greater threats, particularly if they do not incorporate defensible space and home hardening approaches, such as fire ‑resistant siding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584