Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Cash, Food, and Medical Assistance Can Offset Housing Costs a (In Millions) Free and reduced price lunch 2,838 $4,097 a Where possible, we tried to identify funding targeting children and families. b Earned Income Tax Credit amounts reflect combination of federal tax year data and state fiscal year data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - These closures affected an average of about 950,000 students per year in 2017‑18 through 2019‑20. Schools and child care providers will need to plan for how they can maintain continuity of education and services—particularly for more vulnerable and impacted students—as climate change disruptions become more frequent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Until the pandemic is behind us and jobs can fully return, some renters may continue to accrue rental debt and face a risk of homelessness or housing instability. How Has COVID‑19 Affected Homeowners?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

tagId=75 To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? December 9, 2015 State law directs how your county auditor distributes revenue from the 1 percent tax to: Local Governments in Your County.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96&videoId=144

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - Conversely, a site with height limits over one hundred feet and limited setbacks can accommodate higher ‑density housing such as multistory apartments. By dictating how many sites housing can be built on and at what densities, zoning controls how much housing a community can accommodate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Past experience with New Market Tax Credits also can shed some light on how much of the proposed state Opportunity Zone benefit would be windfalls for investors. A handful of other states have adopted state tax credits that mirror the federal New Market Tax Credit to encourage investors to shift their New Market Tax Credit investment to those states.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - The state imposes certain requirements for how housing must be built through the adoption of statewide building codes, which local governments can then strengthen based on their own priorities. The Legislature may want to consider whether the state should set new or different requirements for how homes are to be built.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - In some cases, local governments limit how much landlords can increase rents each year for existing tenants. About 15 California cities have these rent controls, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Mandates can be suspended as part of the annual budget bill. When a mandate is suspended, the requirement remains in law but local governments do not have to comply with the suspended mandate requirements in that year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - The allocation of this past funding was designed to get money to cities and counties as fast as possible largely by using readily available metrics, such as a jurisdiction ’s population and other commonly used allocation formulas, to determine the level of funding allocated to each jurisdiction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428