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 - We suggest the Legislature dedicate the early part of the budget process to overseeing the implementation of last year ’s significant homelessness augmentations. Additionally, the state authorized significant funding last year for programs the Governor now proposes for additional augmentation.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Last Year ’s Point-in-Time Count Identified More Than 180,000 Californians Experiencing Homelessness. A long-standing way that California and the rest of the United States have estimated the number of people experiencing homelessness is through a point-in-time count.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - To reach this measurement, the Census Bureau estimates what proportion of the count was enumerated correctly, what proportion was enumerated incorrectly (double counted, for instance), and the extent to which indi viduals were omitted from the count.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

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 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - Counties would be required to match every $2 of SSCAP funding with $1 of local funds. Assessor Reporting and Outcome Measurement. Participating counties would be required to report workload and outcome data to DOF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Next, we revised the model ’s assumption that half of eligible unemployed workers receive UI benefits to match state UI benefit administrative records that show that a much higher share of workers have received UI benefits during the pandemic.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - In particular, the administration should explain ( 1)  l ocal matching requirements for the additional funds; ( 2)  e ligibility requirements for WPC pilot participants; and ( 3)  h ow state funds will expand, rather than supplant, existing federal and local funding for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

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

Feb 14, 2022 - The 2021 ‑22 budget provided HCD $45  million one ‑time American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act fiscal relief funds to expand the state excess sites program with funding for brownfield remediation, and budget ‑related legislation to expand the state excess sites program with local government matching grants that aim to incentivize further affordable housing development on excess lands.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

Insufficient ERAF: Examining a Recent Issue in Local Government Finance [Publication Details]

Dec 18, 2012 - Insufficient ERAF: Examining a Recent Issue in Local Government Finance [Publication Details] Video Description: Over the last two years, an unanticipated funding shortfall in Amador and San Mateo Counties cut city and county reimbursements for two complex state-local financial transactions: the triple flip and VLF swap.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2676