2018-19 Budget: Voting Equipment for Counties

Mar 16, 2018 - Vote Center Model of Voting. Under SB  450 (Chapter  832 of 2016), counties may replace the precinct model with a new “vote center ” model. Rather than opening thousands of polling places, implementing counties will be required to open a certain number of vote centers (based on population).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3786

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Appendix: Additional Information about Rental Debt Model Overview of Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Model. The national model built by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia tracks households over the course of the pandemic, adjusting monthly household income downward for job losses and upward for federal stimulus and unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Housing, Homelessness and Local Government

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Making Government Make Sense: A More Rational Structure for State and Local Government [Publication Details]

Feb 1, 1993 - We offer a model of a rational organization (or "realignment") of state, county, city, and special district responsibilities. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/156

The 2018-19 Budget: County Assessor Funding

Feb 15, 2018 - One alternative approach could be to develop a statistical model to estimate what would have happened to taxable values in the absence of the funding and compared these estimates to the outcomes under the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3756

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Our Model. We use probit regression analysis to evaluate how various factors affected the likelihood of a census tract experiencing displacement between 2000 and 2013. This type of model allows us to hold constant various economic and demographic factors and isolate the impact of increased market –rate construction on the likelihood of displacement.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - State law further requires our office to analyze any new mandates identified b y the Commission as a part of our annual analysis of the state budget. 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 mandates should be repealed, funded, suspended, or modified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - This is in part because the evolution of these risks over time is complicated to model. The lack of widely available maps of the full range of future climate‑driven risks makes it more difficult for decision makers to fully incorporate these risks into their planning activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

SB 1 Has Doubled Major Source of State Funding for Local Streets and Roads

Jan 24, 2020 - The road improvement fee will begin July 1, 2020 and will charge an annual $100 vehicle registration fee on zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) model year 2020 and later. In flationary adjustments for the transportation improvement fee and the road improvement fee will begin January 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021, respectively.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4142

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Increased Risk of Floods Climate models predict that California will experience less frequent but more intense storm patterns in the coming decades, including the state ’s precipitation more frequently falling as rain rather than snow compared to historical trends.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575