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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $1.4  million General Fund for the department ’s Investigation, Enforcement, and Conciliation Enhancement program, which seeks to reduce wait times between intake of complaints and investigative appointments and to increase the number of successful settlements by investigators.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government [Publication Details]

Oct 22, 2025 - The 2025-26 budget package contains a number of major actions in the area of agency reorganization, homelessness, housing, and other actions, which we describe in this post.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5082

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Finally, Chapter  721 requires agencies that receive requests for the completion of such documents to report annually on the number of victims that submitted requests, the number of documents signed, and the number of documents denied.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Homelessness in California For a number of reasons, identifying the number of Californians experiencing homelessness is difficult. Below, we provide estimates using two common methodologies. We then summarize state funding in recent years related to housing and homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 5, 2025 - The permit regulates discharges from municipal separate storm sewer systems and requires the applicable local governments to undertake a number of activities. In 2010, Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and 14 cities within Orange County filed a test claim with CSM contending that various sections of the 2009 permit represented state-reimbursable mandated activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - For example, the number of interrogations may fluctuate based on local policing decisions or changes in the number of youth arrests. Furthermore, statewide costs could be affected by other factors that remain uncertain, such as ch anges in the number of counties that choose to file reimbursable claims and the extent to which counties include law enforcement or indirect costs in their claims.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

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

May 2, 2023 - Every ten years, in years ending in the number zero, the U.S. Census identifies (1)  the number of people who live in the United States and (2)  where people live across the country. The census shows changes in the number of people living in a jurisdiction and collects information regarding the demographics and characteristics of those people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Many observers, including our office, feared that a large number of these households would fall behind on rent or mortgage payments, leading to evictions and foreclosures. …But Renters Have Been Disproportionately Affected.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - The primary factor that affects the potential annual cost to the state is the number of impasses resulting in fact-finding. Number of Fact-Finding Cases Likely Varies Significantly Year to Year. In the three years used by the Commission to determine the cost of the mandate, the number of fact-finding projects in a fiscal year ranged from 37 to 44 —averaging to about 40 cases each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Even with appropriate mitigations, there may be increasing numbers of structures lost to natural disasters —such as wildfires and floods —as a result of climate change. This likely will put continued upward pressure on residential property insurance rates and make insurance more difficult to obtain in a greater number of areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584