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

Oct 22, 2025 - BCSH = Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency; CHHA = California Housing and Homelessness Agency; Cal ICH = California Interagency Council on Homelessness; and HDFC = Housing Development and Finance Committee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

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

May 2, 2023 - Historically, a city council or board of supervisors was responsible for establishing their own new council and supervisor districts, respectively. After the creation of the CRC, some charter cities established independent commissions with the authority to adopt a redistricting plan independent of their city council.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4766

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - According to a nationwide survey conducted by the National Multifamily Housing Council, shown in Figure  4 , the share of rent payments that were on time during COVID ‑19 has been only slightly lower than the share made on time during the same month in 2019.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 20, 2019 - Regional Councils of Government Allocate Housing Within Each Region.  Next, regional councils of governments (regional planning organizations governed by elected officials from the region ’s cities and counties) allocate a share of their region ’s projected housing need to each city and county.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Since 2021, the state ’s California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), an entity within the Business, Consumer Services and Housing (BCSH) Agency charged with coordinating the state ’s efforts to address homelessness, has maintained a Homeless Data Integration System (HDIS).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

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

May 5, 2025 - In 2010, Orange County, Orange County Flood Control District, and 14 cities within Orange County filed a test claim with CSM contending that various sections of the 2009 permit represented state-reimbursable mandated activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor's Housing Plan

Feb 14, 2022 - Administered by the Strategic Growth Council and implemented by HCD, the AHSC Program funds land ‑use, housing, transportation, and land preservation projects to support infill and dense development that reduces GHG emissions.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

Feb 28, 2022 - Because these mandates would be the result of administratively established regulations rather than a state law, adjusting ongoing costs would require modifications to permits issued by the water b oards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

The 2020-21 Budget: Local Agency Employee Organizations, Impasse Procedures II

Mar 4, 2020 - Section 3505.4 of the Government Code —as amended by Chapter  314 of 2012 (AB  1606, Perea) —establishes a fact-finding process when the parties cannot reach an agreement. The law requires employee representatives and employers to do specific activities within specific time frames to set up the fact-finding panel and to aid the panel in its work.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4190

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - By similar logic, a less generous program that covered rent costs exceeding 50 percent of household income would cost around $10 b illion annually. There is, however, good reason to believe the cost of expanding voucher programs would be significantly higher than these simple estimates suggest.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345