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: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Staff reviews the applications, scores them, and makes the awards. (Cal ICH staff administered the program through 2023-24. The state transferred program administration to HCD —also under the BCSH Agency umbrella —beginning in 2024-25.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

Feb 9, 2022 - As Cal ICH reviews applications, their scoring system prioritizes funding for applications that (1)  demonstrate a commitment to collaborate with local and state partners to resolve encampment issues; (2)  address encampments with 50 or more occupants; and (3)  reflect a diverse range of communities across the state, including rural, urban, and suburban communities.
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

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details]

Mar 5, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding [Publication Details] The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding Format: HTML Description: The Encampment Resolution Funding (ERF) program provides grants for local communities to address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5007

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - Cities and counties that adopt these policies would receive additional points in the scoring of their applications for certain state grant programs. The budget package tasks HCD with creating criteria to identify pro-housing policies that reflect differences between rural, urban, an d suburban jurisdictions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2019-20 May Revision: Opportunity Zones

May 11, 2019 - Our analysis (discussed below) of New Market Tax Credits —a federal program similar to Opportunity Zones —suggests this program did not measurably increase the incomes of residents living in California communities targeted for investment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4038

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - A U-Visa provides an individual with various benefits, such as the ability to legally live and work in the U.S. for four years (and potentially the ability to apply for legal status) and to petition for a U-Visa for qualifying family members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Climate models project that by mid‑century, Los Angeles County will experience an average of nine days of extreme heat per year, growing to 12 days per year by the final decades of the century. In contrast, Sacramento County is projected to experience 20 days per year of extreme heat by mid‑century and 28 days annually by the end of the century.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

May 2, 2023 - Census identifies (1)  the number of people who live in the United States and (2)  where people live across the country. The census shows changes in the number of people living in a jurisdiction and collects information regarding the demographics and characteristics of those people.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766