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

Mar 23, 2017 - Rather than distributing the funds across all cities and counties, encouraging LUCA participation by county assessors (on behalf o f the county and its cities) could increase the funding available to each county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Comparing cities ’ permit growth in 2000 t o growth in 2001 we find no evidence of an increase in permitting. As Figure  4 shows, there were fewer cities with permit growth just above 12  p ercent in 2001 t han in 2000.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - When this occurs, the model assumes these households do not pay their full monthly rent. Each month, rental debt accumulates for these households. By December 2020, the initial analysis estimated that California rente rs would owe a total of $1. 7  b illion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment - The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment [Video]

In this video, Managing Principal Analyst Marianne O 'Malley discusses the LAO 's report "The 2012-13 Budget: Unwinding Redevelopment. "
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=53

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

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

May 12, 2021 - The state has until December 31, 2024 t o spend its federal ARP allocation. As such, we recommend the Legislature not allocate all of the ARP funds available to the state as part of its 2021 ‑ 22 b udget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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