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

Feb 20, 2019 - This adjustment could be applied at the first step in the RHNA process, when the state determines housing goals for each region. Specifically, the basic steps of a new process could be: ( 1)   D etermine Household Growth Projections.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

May 30, 2025 - The Governor ’s January budget proposal addressed the first mandate, proposing to retroactively suspend the mandate and not fund local governments ’ past costs. In our assessment of that proposal, we recommended the Legislature reject the Governor’s proposed suspension and instead fund past costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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 2017-18 Budget: National Housing Trust Fund Staffing

Feb 23, 2017 - The first allocations from the NHTF to states were announced in the summer of 2016. California was awarded $10.1 million to be allocated by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to affordable housing projects in the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3580

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

May 2, 2023 - Given that this is the first time the independent commission drew new boundaries and the process occurs every ten years, the Legislature has an opportunity to evaluate the requirements under Chapter  781 and determine whether those requirements led to more representative districts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Provides teachers, administrators, and school district employees with loans used for down payment assistance and/or closing costs of first homes. Single Family Down Payment Assistance. Provides loans for down payment assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - According to the survey, 80  p ercent of these borrowers requested forbearance during the first months of the pandemic. Could Delinquencies Increase Going Forward? The federal 12 ‑month forbearance guarantee will lapse this spring for borrowers who requested assistance during the first months of the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - First, marrying Opportunity Zone benefits with affordable housing financing could complicate an already complex process which often involves multiple funding steams and complicated legal arrangements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - In The 2017‑18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors’ Partnership Agreement Program , we looked at data from the first two years of SCAPAP and found that its effect on property taxes appeared to be modest.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756