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 - 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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in older housing that requires modifications —such as air conditioning or more fire ‑resistant exteriors —to adapt to increased risks. Notably, low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in rental housing, and thus more likely to be reliant on landlords to conduct modifications to their homes to mitigate the effects of climate change.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Two-thirds of those counted were unsheltered (such as people living on the street or in a park). (The other one-third were identified as “sheltered homeless, ” meaning they were spending the night in an emergency shelter or other temporary housing.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 30, 2025 - For example, CSM determined that requirements to develop certain monitoring and work plans; provide specific information in annual reports; and develop plans for various studies, such as investigations of sediment toxicity in streams, to be state-reimbursable mandates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Low ‑income residents also are more likely to live in older housing that requires modifications to adapt to increased risks. For example, low ‑income households are less likely to live in homes with central air conditioning than are higher ‑income households, and may also find it challenging to pay for electricity to run the systems they have.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Evidence supporting this relationship can be found by comparing housing expenditures of low –income households living in California ’s slow –growing coastal communities to those living in fast –growing communities elsewhere in the country.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

Feb 9, 2022 - For instance, funds could be used to purchase and install tiny homes and to provide time ‑limited operational supports in these tiny homes or in other housing settings, including existing assisted living settings.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521