Do Communities Adequately Plan for Housing?

Mar 8, 2017 - Some housing site inventories contain thousands of properties —for example, the city of Los Angeles ’ site inventory contains over 20,000 sites. To carry out this task on a statewide basis, HCD receives just under $1  million  dollars annually to fund seven staff.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3605

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - The budget provides a net increase of $23  million one-time General Fund for the construction phase of the Relocation of Red Mountain Communications Site project. The increase in construction costs stems mainly from site conditions, which were found to be more complex than initially estimated and require the use of specialized vehicles, structures, and equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081/

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

Mar 18, 2025 - Natcast Chose Site in Sunnyvale. In July 2024, Natcast and the Department of Commerce officially launched a site selection process for three flagship R &D facilities. Through this process, they discussed prospective sites with economic development organizations, such as the GO-Biz in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

The 2018-19 Budget: California Earned Income Tax Credit Education and Outreach

May 8, 2018 - In 2018, there were more than 850 VITA sites in California. Partner organizations —like nonprofits —provide facilities for VITA volunteers to do tax preparation. As of April 16, 2018, about 279,000 federal income tax returns and 273,000 state income tax returns had been filed at VITA sites in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3826

Taxation of Sugary Drinks

Nov 26, 2018 - As shown in Figure  3, for example, a sugar ‑based tax would result in somewhat higher taxes on many sodas and fruit drinks, and somewhat lower taxes on many sweetened teas and sports drinks. Tiered Tax.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3903

The 2022-23 Budget: Supply Chain and Port Infrastructure Proposals

Feb 15, 2022 - Throughout the state, ports and other facilities operate training sites. To better understand the need for state funding, the Legislature will want to request the administration provide additional information on how these sites have been funded and built in the past, as well as why the proposed campus needs state funding, while other training sites have not required state fundi ng.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4540

The 2017-18 Budget: Evaluating the State-County Assessors' Partnership Agreement Program

Mar 27, 2017 - Our data on home prices and home sales comes from the real estate site Zillow. For residential and commercial permits, we used data from the Construction Industry Research Board. Results. The results of our regression are shown in Figure  A ‑1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3632

Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - During the process of selecting the site for a significant new investment, a business typically considers a variety of factors —including the proximity to their customers and suppliers and the availability and cost of skilled labor, land, energy, water, and other infrastructure.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3709