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

Major Milestones: Over Four Decades of the State-Local Fiscal Relationship [Publication Details]

Nov 29, 2012 - The first page contains the entire graphic and will print on one sheet of paper, such as 8.5 x 11 (letter) or 8.5 x 14 (legal). The second and third pages each contain one half of the graphic and can be joined together for a larger copy of the graphic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2669

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 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - However, beginning in 2008, the voters established the independent California Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC) and made the CRC res ponsible for drawing and approving new district boundaries every ten years with the passage of Proposition  11 in 2008 and Proposition  20 in 2010.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Journal of Public Economics , 89 (11), 2137 –2164 . Somerville, C. T., & Mayer, C. J. (2003). Government Regulation and Changes in the Affordable Housing Stock. Economic Policy Review , 9 (2), 45 –62 .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345