Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Monthly cash benefits for about 1.3  million low ‑income aged, blind, and disabled individuals. The state ’s General Fund provides the SSP portion of the grant while federal funds pay for the SSI portion of the grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - The 1 Percent Tax—Where Does Your Money Go? [Video]

This animation summarizes the major steps county auditors take to distribute this money.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96&videoId=144

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

Feb 9, 2022 - Facilities prioritized for funding will be those serving adults and seniors receiving Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) or Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) benefits, and/or at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
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

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - Calculating Your 1 Percent Tax [Video]

Understanding Your Property Tax Bill - Calculating Your 1 Percent Tax [Video] Search LAO Videos Understanding Your Property Tax Bill December 9, 2015 As a companion to LAO 's California Economy and Taxes blog series on property tax, these animations 1)  walk  through the basic steps of calculating a property owner ’s 1 percent  tax and 2)  summarize  the major steps county auditors take to distribute this money.
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=96

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - There may be certain targeted areas where providing some financial support for these activities has merit, such as providing “seed money ” to help spur local adaptation project planning efforts. (As discussed above, the 2021 ‑22 budget package included funding through both HCD and OPR for regional planning activities.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households have less money to purchase and operate air conditioning units during extreme heat events, air filters to moderate wildfire smoke, or back ‑up electricity generators to provide electricity during Public Safety Power Shutoff events.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The majority protest process makes it less burdensome to increase fees for these services. Notably, Proposition  218 did not define what activities are encompassed by “sewer services. ” A 2017 State Law Defined “Sewer, ” Making Fee Increases Less Burdensome.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

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

May 30, 2025 - In particular, state law directs our office to report on the annual state costs for new mandates and make recommendations to the Legislature as to whether the new mandate should be repealed (permanently eliminating it or making it optional), suspended (rendering it inoperative for one year), modified, or funded in the annual Budget Act.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - In fact, in many elections, state issues make up the majority of the ballot. While the state reaps regular benefits from county elections administration, it only sporadically provides funding to counties for elections activities or equipment.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786