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 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 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 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