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

May 5, 2025 - …However, Multiple Additional Stormwater-Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually. However, if CSM was to determine that each of the currently pending stormwater-related test claims constituted state-reimbursable mandates for costs incurred before 2018, the state could face greater costs to reimburse local governments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - This includes 32 pending test claims and 4 additional claims for which CSM has already identified state-reimbursable mandated activities but has not yet developed cost estimates. Each test claim submitted to CSM is different and has to be considered individually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Multiple Additional Stormwater ‑Related Test Claims Pending at the Commission. While not directly linked to this mandate, the commission has 37 pending test claims related to other stormwater permits issued by the state water boards dating back to 2009.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Clearly, more people would have attended if the venue had been bigger and more tickets had been available. Similarly, more people would live in California if more housing were built for them. Time Period Covered by Housing Goals Is Too Short.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - Calculating Your 1 Percent Tax [Video]

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - Calculating Your 1 Percent Tax [Video] Search LAO Videos Understanding Your Property Tax Bill December 9, 2015 As a companion to LAO 's California Economy and Taxes blog series on property tax, these animations 1)  walk  through the basic steps of calculating a property owner ’s 1 percent  tax and 2)  summarize  the major steps county auditors take to distribute this money.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96

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

Follow the property tax blog series here:   http://www.lao.ca.gov/LAOEconTax?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?
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96&videoId=144

2011 Realignment: Addressing Issues to Promote Its Long-Term Success [Publication Details]

Aug 19, 2011 - We also identify a series of more extensive issues that we recommend the Legislature address in early 2012, such as developing local funding formulas with an eye towards the long term, promoting local accountability, and simplifying the plan’s extensive network of accounts and subaccounts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2508

2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Criminal Justice Realignment [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2009 - 2009-10 Budget Analysis Series: Criminal Justice Realignment [Publication Details] Press Conf Description: The Governor’s 2009-10 budget plan contains a proposal to shift some funding for some criminal justice programs from the state to the local level.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1913

California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences - Why Doesn’t California Build Enough Housing? [Video]

[Video] Search LAO Videos California 's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences March 17, 2015 In this series of short videos, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analysts Chas Alamo and Brian Uhler discuss the many factors that have a role in driving California 's high housing costs, the most important being the significant shortage of housing in the state 's highly coveted coastal communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=20&videoId=138