Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Free and Reduced Price Meals. School district provide free and low ‑cost school meals to low ‑income pupils. Homeless Emergency Aid Program. Provides funding to eligible cities and Continuums of Care for a variety of short ‑term housing solutions for the homeless, such as shelters and rapid rehousing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure at May Revision

May 23, 2024 - As one of the few discretionary spending proposals in the Governor ’s January budget, the elimination of this additional funding frees up General Fund resources in 2024 ‑25 and 2025 ‑26 without reducing core state services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4906

The 2022-23 Budget: Secretary of State Request to Waive Business Filing Fees

Feb 7, 2022 - Because we do not view the business filing fees to be a barrier for new businesses, we recommend that the Legislature reject the proposal —freeing up the funding for other legislative priorities. If the Legislature chooses to approve the proposal, we recommend amendments to budget bill language to clarify legislative intent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4516

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - However, the administration indicates that the work could have other benefits, such as improving the quality of health care or reducing unnecessarily bureaucratic processes, thereby freeing up staff time to address other workload.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - The budget package also makes changes to the California Small Business Technical Assistance Expansion Program, which contracts with small business technical assistance centers to help small businesses and entrepreneurs through free or low-cost one-on-one consulting and low-cost training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - This foundation operates the Imagination Library, which mails books free of charge to children under age five. Proposition  2 (2024) Workload. The budget provides DGS $59.5  million over 5 years (including $12.5  million in 2025-26) from the 2024 State School Facilities Fund and $356,000 ongoing from various funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Nutrition Programs in COVID-19 Recovery Actions

Mar 25, 2020 - Second, many sites providing meals to targeted populations have closed during the current crisis, including schools which provide students free or reduced-priced meals and congregate meal sites which serve seniors.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4211

A Review of LifeLine Budget Estimates and Enrollment Process

Apr 3, 2019 - Most LifeLine wireless plans are free and include unlimited minutes and unlimited text. Many of them also include some data. Carriers will also often provide new customers a free or discounted phone when customers sign up.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3995

Evaluating the Sale-Leaseback Proposal: Should the State Sell Its Office Buildings? [Publication Details]

Apr 27, 2010 - The sale-leaseback is designed to free up the state’s equity in the buildings to provide one-time revenue for addressing the state’s current budgetary shortfall. We estimate that the sale of buildings would result in one-time revenue to the state of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, but that annual leasing costs would eventually exceed ownership costs by approximately $200 million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2261

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Sep 16, 2022 - In addition to the $100  million annually that the state makes available for housing tax credits, the budget makes available an additional $500  million one time for tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low-income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4622