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

Oct 22, 2025 - The budget provides $2.4  million one-time General Fund for the Civil Right Department ’s California vs. Hate initiative. California vs. Hate is a non-emergency hotline and online portal that allows state residents to report hate crimes and hate incidents.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Matching Funds. Applicants will be required to provide matching funds, with the match rate varying by the type of applicant (for example, a 10  percent match will be required for counties and cities, and a 5  percent match for tribes).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - 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. Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 21, 2019 - None is obviously superior to the others in all respects. Some approaches —such as rapid rehousing (short ‑term rent assistance, moving cost assistance, or help with housing search) or shelters —tend to be cheaper, can be deployed more quickly, and have lower barriers of entry for participants.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Not All Homeowners in Forbearance Have Missed Mortgage Payments. The federal forbearance program is available to all borrowers, not only those who are unable to make their mortgage payments. Under federal law, borrowers do not need to prove or document their inability to meet their mortgage payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - To do so, we first matched each zip code that received investment with another zip code in California that (1)  was eligible but did not receive New Market Tax Credit investments and (2)  had residents with similar incomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - All four concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards and costs incurred by local governments prior to 2018. The Governor ’s January budget proposal addressed the first mandate, proposing to retroactively suspend the mandate and not fund local governments ’ past costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Counties would be required to match every $2 of SSCAP funding with $1 of local funds. Assessor Reporting and Outcome Measurement. Participating counties would be required to report workload and outcome data to DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

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

Feb 14, 2022 - In all, the AHSC Program has allocated nearly $2.5  billion GGRF over six rounds of funding through 2020 ‑21 and has contributed to the creation of 16,400  housing units. Across all six rounds, the projects are estimated to reduce pollutants in the air equivalent to getting about 90,000 cars off the road for one year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535