Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Earned Income Tax Credit. A state and federal income tax credit for low ‑income working families and individuals, which reduces the tax amount owed by the tax ‑filer and, in some cases, may provide eligible filers with a refundable income amount.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - In particular, low ‑wage workers were in a precarious financial position before the pandemic, and tend to work in industries that were most affected by the pandemic. These workers are likely to rent, rather than own, their home.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Similarly, rural communities that are at greater risk of experiencing water shortages due to droughts tend to be home to large proportions of households with residents of color and who earn lower incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Wildfire Mitigation Partnership and Safer From Wildfires Framework. The Department of Insurance, working with other state agencies and stakeholders, has developed a list of specific mitigations for existing homes and communities in order to help homeowners reduce their individual risk.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 9, 2022 - For instance, funds could be used to purchase and install tiny homes and to provide time ‑limited operational supports in these tiny homes or in other housing settings, including existing assisted living settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

Mar 23, 2017 - Traditionally, each household receives a questionnaire in the mail that asks a few basic questions including the number of people in the household, their names, their ages, their race/ethnicities, and whether or not the occupants of the household own or rent their home.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Currently, about 3.3 million low –income households (who earn 80  percent or less of the median income where they live) rent housing in California, including 2.3  million very –low –income households (who earn 50 percent or less of the median income where they live).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The 2017-18 Budget: National Housing Trust Fund Staffing

Feb 23, 2017 - The NHTF is funded by allocations from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac —government-sponsored enterprises created to support a secondary market for home mortgages. Due to financial challenges at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shortly after the NHTF was created, allocations to the NHTF were suspended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3580