The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool [Publication Details]

Mar 11, 2014 - The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool [Publication Details] The 2014-15 Budget: Changes to a Local Infrastructure Financing Tool Format: HTML Description: In 1990, the Legislature authorized cities and counties to form infrastructure financing districts to fund local infrastructure projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2970

The 2020-21 Budget: U-Visa I-918 Form Mandate

Mar 4, 2020 - Chapter  721 of 2015 (SB  674, de Le ón) requires that upon the request of a victim or a victim ’s family member, certain officials complete a certification document if the individual is a victim of a qualifying crime and has been or is likely to be helpful to the investigation or prosecution of the crime.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4192

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

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - Gyourko, J., & Linneman, P. (1990). Rent Controls and Rental Housing Quality: A Note on the Effects of New York City ’s Old Controls. Journal of Urban Economics , 27 (3), 398 –409 . Malpezzi, S., & Vandell, K. (2002).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

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

May 5, 2025 - Often when the state decides to suspend a mandate through the budget process, it will do so to avoid paying costs for one year on a prospective basis. In those cases, the suspension also makes the required activity optional for local governments to conduct for that forthcoming year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - Should it become clear that there are not benefits of providing youths with legal counsel at this stage of the juvenile justice process —or that the benefits of doing so do not justify the costs —the Legislature could suspend the mandate at that time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Like the point-in-time count, these annual numbers from HDIS also are undercounts, primarily because the HDIS data do not include people experiencing homelessness who did not access any services (and thus did not get recorded in a CoC data system) —or accessed services from a provider who is not part of a CoC (such as veterans experiencing homelessness who received services exclusively from the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, between 1961 and 1990, Los Angeles and Sacramento Counties each experienced an average of four days of extreme heat per year (defined as days when the maximum temperature exceeded each county’s respective 98th percentile historical temperature for a given date).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2023-24 Budget: County of Los Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission Mandate

May 2, 2023 - The Commission found that Chapter  781 requires the County of Los Angeles to do a number of activities that constitute state-reimbursable mandates. Some of these activities are one time for each cycle.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

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

Feb 20, 2019 - While it is reasonable for the state to ask cities and counties to do all they can do to plan for and facilitate a particular amount of home building, holding them entirely accountable for outcomes that they do not completely control may be unreasonable. . . .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938