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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $2.4  million one-time General Fund for the Civil Right Department ’s California vs. Hate initiative. California vs. Hate is a non-emergency hotline and online portal that allows state residents to report hate crimes and hate incidents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD  estimates that this funding would  incentivize the creation of 1,600 housing units through projects completed as a result of this proposal —400  housing units due to the 2022 ‑23 funding and 1,200  housing units due to the 2023 ‑24 funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - To better understand these results, we used the model to compare the probability that an average census tract would experience displacement when its market –rate construction was low (0 units), average (136 units), and high (243 units).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Funds can also be used to assist in the development of multiple ‑unit ownership projects. Farm and Home Loan Program. Provides home loans to eligible veterans, including veterans who may not otherwise qualify for a home loan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

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

Mar 23, 2017 - DOF defines housing activity as the amount of new construction, demolitions, conversions (to housing units), and housing unit annexations since the 2010 Census. The administration cites the low take-up rate of the 2007 ‑08 grants as an indicator that the grants need to be increased in order to achieve better participation from cities and counties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - A long-standing way that California and the rest of the United States have estimated the number of people experiencing homelessness is through a point-in-time count. Since the count is only a snapshot of people experiencing homelessness on one given night in a year (typically in late January) and those conducting the count may miss individuals who are hidden from view at the time (such as people sleeping in a secluded area), the homelessness data collected is an undercount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 20, 2019 - In exchange, developers reserve these units for low ‑income households. The household income of residents must be below 60  p ercent of area median income —$71, 000 i n San Francisco and $35, 000 i n Bakersfield.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - A recent scientific  study  by United States Geological Survey researchers predicted that under scenarios of three feet to six feet of sea‑level rise, up to two‑thirds of Southern California beaches may become completely eroded by 2100.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Oct 17, 2019 - Of this amount, $200  million is set aside for developments that include affordable units for both low- and lower-middle-income households. This increase in the low-income housing tax credit has no budgetary costs in 2019-20 because the credits will be claimed on future tax returns.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102