The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Encampment resolution thus is distinct from encampment “sweeps, ” in which people are moved from an encampment (sometimes losing their personal possessions in the process) and remain homeless —and still outside —in a different neighborhood or area.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - We find that the Commission ’s estimate relies on various assumptions that are reasonable, but that the estimate is still subject to uncertainty. For example, the Commission estimates how many youths would require legal counsel before the waiver of Miranda rights and prior to an interrogation by using annual arrest data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - A subset of SCO ’s audit reductions to Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges mandate claims still are being challenged or are within the time frame when they could be challenged by claimants through “incorrect reduction claim ” processes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

An Initial Look at Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Local Government Fiscal Condition

May 12, 2021 - The picture will beco me more clear next year when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2022 ‑ 23 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2019 ‑20 financial data and clearer still when the Legislature considers the state ’s 2023 ‑ 24 b udget after the SCO has published local governments ’ 2020 ‑21 financial data.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 21, 2019 - The administration should explain what experience from the pilot justifies permanently establishing HDAP in 2019 ‑20 when the initial funding still remains available for the program. Additionally, the administration should explain why it prioritized providing additional funds to HDAP while funding for other housing pilot programs that have demonstrated positive outcomes and are set to expire in 2019 ‑20 are not continued, such as Bringing Families Home.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942

The 2019-20 Budget: What Can Be Done to Improve Local Planning for Housing?

Feb 20, 2019 - We can turn to other evidence, however, that is less rigorous but still somewhat helpful. This evidence, which we discuss below, suggests the impact of these programs was limited at best. No Notable Spike in Affordable Housing Construction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for the Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 20, 2019 - While an expansion of California ’s housing supply would offer widespread benefits to Californians, even with a significant expansion of home building many low ‑income Californians would still struggle with housing affordability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3941

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Even if individual homeowners take steps to protect their properties from the effects of climate change, they still will face risks if community ‑level mitigations —such as levees that protect communities from inundation during high ‑water storm events and open spaces that serve as fuel breaks to help safeguard fire ‑prone communities from wildfires —are not adequate to protect against growing threats.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - While overall health effects from wildfire smoke still are being studied, a rough estimate suggests wildfire smoke in 2020 caused about 20 deaths per 100,000 adults over the age of 65. Researchers suggest that particulate matter in fire‑prone areas could roughly double by the end of the century, and that a 50 percent increase in wildfire smoke could increase deaths of older adults by an additional 9 to 20 per 100,000 people annually.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Tenants are still responsible for paying unpaid rents to landlords, but those unpaid amounts cannot be the basis for an eviction. These protections are set to expire on January 31, 2021. The 2021 ‑22 Governor ’s Budget identifies his desire to continue some type of eviction protection past January 31, 2021, however, the budget does not provide details about an extension of the eviction moratorium.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312