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

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

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

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

Evaluation of the Property Tax Postponement Program [Publication Details]

Oct 8, 2018 - Housing is very expensive in California—in early 2018, the typical California home cost $481,000, roughly double the price of the typical home in the United States. The state offers the Property Tax Postponement (PTP) Program to help certain homeowners afford their property taxes and stay in their homes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3885

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion [Publication Details]

Oct 9, 2017 - When a property changes hands the taxes paid for the property often increase substantially. This is not true for most inherited property. Three decades ago, the Legislature and voters decided inherited property should not be reassessed when transferred. This has been a consequential decision. Many have benefited from the tax savings this policy affords.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3706

The Property Tax Inheritance Exclusion

Oct 9, 2017 - This limited inventory —a consequence of many factors including too little home building and an aging population —has driven up the price of housing in California and made the home buying experience more difficult for many.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3706

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We suspect that low-wage workers ’ high likelihood of living in three-earner (or more) households might be due largely to California ’s high housing costs. (We further examine housing affordability for minimum-wage workers in another post .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1