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 - Under this schedule, funding through rounds one and two were made available in 2021 and some awards were made. Round one ($150  million) is focused on mobile crisis infrastructure and round two ($16  million) is focused on local planning activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

An Evaluation of the School Facility Fee Affordable Housing Assistance Programs [Publication Details]

Jan 18, 2001 - Proposition 1A of 1998 authorized $9.2 billion to finance school facilities. Its companion legislation appropriated $160 million to reimburse school facility fees paid for new homes. In this report we recommend that the Legislature eliminate the $60 million in scheduled appropriations for these reimbursements in 2001-02 and 2002-03.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/746

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Prior to Proposition  1A (2004), there was no payment schedule for reimbursing local governments for these state mandates. As a result, the state went many years without paying counties for the costs associated with certain state elections requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

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

Feb 14, 2022 - HCD anticipates the same schedule for the 2023 ‑24 augmentation. State Excess Sites Background Building Affordable Housing on Excess State Property.  In 2019 ‑20, the Governor issued an executive order directing the state to identify excess state properties that are suitable for affordable and mixed ‑income housing development.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535