The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate

Mar 19, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate Department of Real Estate Background Department of Real Estate (DRE) Both Licenses and Regulates Real Estate Licensees. In California, real estate salespersons and brokers, mortgage lenders, and rental property managers must have a license issued by DRE in order to do business.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate [Publication Details]

Mar 19, 2025 - The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Real Estate [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5019

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Analysis Target Populations Have Real but Varying Needs. While characteristics of CA RISE participants are not available, data from LA:RISE show that likely participants have difficulty maintaining stable employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - Money Transmitters Program. Regulates, supervises, and examines businesses that receive money for transmission and sell or issue payment instruments and stored value. (These can include businesses that issue money orders and traveler ’s checks, as well as those that offer digital payments, such as PayPal and Stripe.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation [Publication Details]

Apr 3, 2025 - In this post, we assess administration-proposed trailer bill language that would increase certain fees charged by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation and make recommendations to help ensure the department has the resources it needs to meet its oversight and regulatory mission.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5025

Housing and Homelessness Funding Impacting Children

Mar 25, 2019 - Lends money for construction of rental housing projects with units restricted for at least 55 years to households earning less than 60  percent of area median income. Multifamily Housing Program. Provides low ‑interest, long ‑term deferred ‑payment permanent loans for new construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of permanent and transitional rental housing for lower ‑income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3985

The 2019-20 Budget: The Governor’s Proposed Supplemental Pension Payment to CalPERS

Mar 4, 2019 - Similar to the supplemental payment made in 2017 ‑18, this proposal would save the state money over the long-term. Over the next few decades, CalPERS would have more assets earning investment returns for more time —resulting in lower employer contributions than would otherwise be the case.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3957

The 2026-27 Budget: Contract to Achieve Operational Efficiencies

Mar 10, 2026 - BCG is expected to develop and pilot an analytical model that could save money in Medi-Cal by detecting pre-payment fraud, reducing improper claims, and flagging areas of possible waste and abuse. Workstream 5: DHCS —Hospital Financing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5156

Department of Real Estate: Opportunities to Improve Consumer Protection - Department of Real Estate: Opportunities to Improve Consumer Protection [Video]

Department of Real Estate: Opportunities to Improve Consumer Protection - Department of Real Estate: Opportunities to Improve Consumer Protection [Video] Search LAO Videos Department of Real Estate: Opportunities to Improve Consumer Protection May 12, 2009 Author Greg Jolivette summarizes the findings of our recent report, Department of
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The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - For example, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) provides occupational licensing of real estate agents and mortgage brokers, the California Housing Finance Agency administers financing programs for qualified first-time home buyers, and the Civil Rights Department enforces state anti-discrimination laws in housing and related services.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987