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

Oct 22, 2025 - Other Local Government Actions Provides Partial Backfill to Three Counties Related to Vehicle License Fee Shortfall. The 2025-26 Budget Act provides a total General Fund backfill of $79  million to three counties (San Mateo, Mono, and Alpine).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Moratorium on Non ‑Renewals of Homeowner ’s Insurance. Chapter  616 of 2018 (S B  824 , Lara) prevents insurers from cancelling or refusing to renew a homeowner ’s insurance policy based solely on the fact that the insured structure is located in an area in which a wildfire has occurred for one year after the declaration of a wildfire state of emergency.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Criminal Justice Realignment [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2009 - We recommend that the Legislature finance this criminal justice realignment by increasing the vehicle license fee (VLF) rate to 1 percent (which results in a revenue gain of $1.1 billion) and redirecting $359 million of existing VLF revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1913

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Investments under this program have been made for a wide variety of purposes, including renewable energy and affordable housing. Given the similarity between these programs, we analyzed the results of New Market Tax Credits in California to gain insight about the possible outcomes of Opportunity Zones in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

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

Feb 9, 2022 - The program aims to expand and preserve residential facilities serving vulnerable adults and seniors —such as DSS ‑licensed adult residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Realignment of Parole Could Improve Public Safety and Help Address Budget Shortfall [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2008 - We propose a nearly $500 million realignment of responsibility for supervision of low-level criminal offenders from the state parole system to county probation. Funding for parole realignment would come from a reallocation of waste and water district property taxes, city Proposition 172 sales taxes, and vehicle license fees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1740