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

Oct 22, 2025 - All four mandates concern municipal stormwater permits issued by regional water quality control boards for the period beginning in 2009 or 2010 through December 2017. The Commission on State Mandates had determined that several requirements in these permits (which local governments already carried out) were state-reimbursable mandates for that time frame.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

Feb 20, 2019 - In 2016 ‑17, cities ($ 27  b illion) and counties ($ 49  b illion) received $ 76  b illion in general purpose revenue. The $ 500  m illion proposed by the Governor is more funding than past programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

May 12, 2021 - As such, we recommend the Legislature not allocate all of the ARP funds available to the state as part of its 2021 ‑ 22 b udget. (Our recent publication, A Framework for Allocating Federal Recovery Funds , lays out some guiding principles for the Legislature to consider as it formulates a plan for using the fiscal recovery funds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

May 30, 2025 - Funding these mandates does not have direct out-year fiscal implications for the state. Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Should all of SCO ’s remaining audit reductions remain unchallenged or upheld, however, the commission estimates that state costs for reimbursing this mandate could be as low as  $8.8   million. No Future Costs Anticipated for This Mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - One result of this is that subsidized construction often substitutes for —or “crowds out ” — market –rate development. Several studies have documented this crowd –out effect, generally finding that the construction of one subsidized housing unit reduces market –rate construction by one –half to one housing unit.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

May 5, 2025 - Hypothetically, if CSM approved all costs submitted by local governments in every test claim, the state could face —at most —costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In most cases when CSM approves a municipal stormwater test claim, however, it only partially approves costs (because it usually does not find all requirements to be state-reimbursable mandates).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2017-18 Budget: Local Update of Census Address Program Overview

Mar 23, 2017 - All other households will receive invitations—by mail and perhaps electronically—to fill out the census questionnaire online. The Census Bureau hopes 55 percent of households will respond to the 2020 Census via the Internet.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3629

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - Furthermore, although many renters remain out of work, the state economy has rebounded since April 2020, regaining more than 1  m illion out of the 2. 6  m illion jobs that were lost in March and April 2020.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

Post Election Manual Tally Mandate

Jan 13, 2016 - Reimbursable costs are limited to activities carried out during the 2008 election and therefore unlikely to result in future state reimbursable costs. Governor ’s Proposal The Governor ’s budget does not include funding for this mandate.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3327