Community Land Trust Property Tax Exemption

Dec 20, 2024 - Community Land Trust Property Tax Exemption December 20, 2024 Community Land Trust Property Tax Exemption Properties used to provide affordable housing to low-income Californians generally are exempt from property taxes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4946

Overview of Diversity Efforts in the Film Tax Credit Program

May 1, 2025 - Supplier Diversity: contracting with qualified vendors, including but not limited to catering companies, accounting firms, equipment rentals, and postproduction houses, owned and operated by individuals from socially and economically underrepresented groups to support production.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5036

California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences [Publication Details]

Mar 17, 2015 - California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences [Publication Details] Infographic Description: Living in decent, affordable, and reasonably located housing is vitally important to every Californian.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3214

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Prior to program participation, about one-third of LA:RISE participants had no job in the past five years, one-third were CalFresh recipients, under one-third had stable housing, and over half had been previously arrest ed.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - Regional Housing Needs Allocation Process Defines Each Community ’s Fair Share of Housing. Each community ’s fair share of housing is determined through a process known as Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/3605

Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing? [Publication Details]

Mar 8, 2017 - Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing? [Publication Details] Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing? Format: HTML Description: In this report, we review the available evidence to gauge whether housing element law--the state's primary tool to ensure that local governments adequately plan for new housing--achieves their objective of ensuring that local communities accommodate future home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3605

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - To shed light on this issue, we next compare the statewide minimum wage to housing costs across California ’s 58 counties. Measuring Housing Affordability. To assess housing affordability for minimum-wage workers, we compare monthly earnings for full-time workers making the main minimum wage in each county to HUD ’s estimate of “fair market rent ” for housing in that county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Some of these programs support building of new affordably priced housing by providing direct financial assistance —typically tax credits, grants, or low-cost loans —to housing developers for the construction of new housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones [Publication Details]

May 11, 2019 - The Governor proposes to allow state tax benefits for investments in alternative energy or affordable housing in communities designated as Opportunity Zones under a new federal program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4038

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion - The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion [Video]

In this brief video, Principal Fiscal and Policy Analyst Brian Uhler discusses the report The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=111