The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Nevertheless, the point-in-time count can serve as a useful indicator of broad homelessness trends over time. In January 2024 (the most recently available data), 187,000 people were counted as homeless —an all-time high for the state, and 36,000 (24  percent) more than were counted in January 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Funding for HDAP remains available in 2019 ‑20. The administration should explain what experience from the pilot justifies permanently establishing HDAP in 2019 ‑20 when the initial funding still remains available for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - With this funding, General Fund support for HHAP since 2019-20 will total about $5  billion. The 2026-27 allocation is contingent on the enactment of future legislation aimed at enhancing accountability requirements for grantees, such as having a local encampment policy consistent with state guidelines and showing progress on housing-related performance metrics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - CTCAC received 110  applications for the tax credits authorized by the  2019 ‑20  budget. All of the 2019 ‑20 tax credits have been allocated. Of the 72 projects that received tax credits, 18 projects shared the $200  million set aside for mixed ‑income housing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 12, 2021 - For example, the extent to which a local government provided services with increased demand during the pandemic likely indicates how a local government ’s expenditures may have been affected by the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - The administration indicates that this approach is likely to produce housing units more quickly and cost ‑efficiently than traditional projects because housing developers would not need upfront capital to purchase the land and would not need to wait for local review processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The Department of Finance indicates that this approach is allowable under the Constitution. We note, however, that local governments cannot go back in time 15 years and cease required activities to avoid incurring costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness Housing and Homelessness The 2019-20 Budget Act includes several major actions in the area of housing and homelessness. Grants to Local Governments to Address Homelessness.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - In addition, SB 1 required the repayment of $760 million from the General Fund to the Traffic Congestion Relief Fund by 2019‑20. Of this amount, $75 million is distributed annually to cities and counties for local streets and roads purposes from 2017‑18 to 2019‑20.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Summary In this report, we look at how coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID ‑1 9) h as affected renters and homeowners and how state and federal policies have helped to stabilize household finances for both groups.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312