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

Feb 20, 2019 - Given this, offering rewards to cities and counties in hopes of boosting housing production seems like a risky bet. If the Legislature were to allocate funding for rewards, it cannot be sure what effect, if any, such a program would have on home building.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3938

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Update on State Excess Sites Program. The state’s review of excess properties has resulted in a dynamic list of sites that are suitable for development. So far, 18 sites have been authorized to move forward with development and between 3,800 and 4,500 units of housing are anticipated on these properties.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

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

May 12, 2021 - Further, whereas the top quartile of counties received federal funds that represented at least 31 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues, the top quartile of cities received federal funds that represented at least 20 p ercent of 2018 ‑ 19 r evenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

The 2019-20 Budget: California Spending Plan—Housing and Homelessness

Oct 17, 2019 - This program helps to fund infrastructure needed to support higher-density housing built on infill  sites —that  is, sites within already developed communities. Of this amount, $410  million is available to projects in all communities through a competitive grant process.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4102

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Since the focus of the state ’s program is on providing housing, grantees generally are limited to using non-ERF funds (such as local funds) for site restoration/clean-up activities. Beginning in 2023-24, budget bill provisional language has set aside ERF monies for local partnerships with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to address encampments fully or partially in a state right-of-way (such as state property adjacent to a freeway).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing

Feb 9, 2016 - As Figure 3 shows, displacement was more than twice as likely in low –income census tracts with little market –rate housing construction (bottom fifth of all tracts) than in low –income census tracts with high construction levels (top fifth of all tracts).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3345

The 2019-20 Budget: Considerations for Governor's Proposals to Address Homelessness

Feb 21, 2019 - Supportive housing also typically takes years to site and build. Balancing out the higher costs and long implementation time is the fact that recipients of these programs are less likely to fall back into homelessness.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3942