The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - State Would Benefit From Leveraging Federal 9   Percent and State Tax Credits Too. The  Governor ’s budget is in some ways incomplete in that it is silent on the treatment of federal 9   percent tax credits and state tax credits for the proposed set ‑aside pool.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - A Family Urgent Response System (FURS) program funding reduction to bring ongoing appropriation in line with recent spending trends ($9  million General Fund ongoing reduction). $21  million General Fund annually remains for the program.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/6

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 21, 2025 - The Diaper and Wipe Distribution program received $10  million in 2018-19, $30  million in 2021-22, and $9  million in 2024-25 (all General Fund). Shifts Funding for CalFresh Minimum Nutrition Benefit Pilot to 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5086/3

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget includes provisional language authorizing the Department of Finance to augment State Emergency Telephone Number Account fund expenditure authority by amounts “necessary to continue implementation of the Next Generation 9-1-1 system, including transition from the legacy 9-1-1 system, ” subject to 30-day legislative notification.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

Trends in CalWORKs: Participant Characteristics

Jun 16, 2025 - As shown in Figure  9 , the statewide CalWORKs participation rate was about 9  percent in 2023 ‑24. However, across counties, county ‑level CalWORKs participation rates (among families with children) varied from under 3  percent in certain counties (such as San Mateo, Placer, and Marin Counties) to over 20  percent in other counties (such as Del Norte and Imperial  Counties).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5057

The 2025-26 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2025 - The  main differences between our estimates  include: Revenue Estimates Higher by $9   Billion. Over the budget window —2023 ‑24 through 2025 ‑ 26 —the administration ’s estimates of revenues (excluding policy proposals) are higher than our November 2024 estimate by $9  billion.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4951

Evaluation of the Statewide Project Management Office

Dec 7, 2017 - This allowed the PMO to test the potential of the centralized project management approach and build the reputation and capacity of the office gradually, with the intention of scaling up to larger, more com plex projects once the office was more established.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3723

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Oct 2, 2024 - The spending plan also includes $9  million General Fund on a one-time basis for the Diaper Bank program, which provides funding to food banks for the distribution of diapers and wipes to low-income families with young children.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4933/3

The 2025-26 Budget: Child Welfare

Feb 13, 2025 - Net changes in CCR costs for Home ‑Based Family Care Rates 14 9 Higher projected costs for foster care, Kin ‑GAP, ARC, and AAP payments under CCR. This increase is the net change reflecting higher monthly payments to caregivers due to the annual COLA, partially offset by projected caseload trends —which are estimated to be lower for foster care and ARC and roughly flat for AAP and KinGAP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4962

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 22, 2021 - During the first year of FFPSA implementation, a county may elect to begin providing prevention services by providing written notice to DSS prior to fully completing its com prehensive prevention plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4476/3