The 2026-27 Budget: Streamlining California’s Affordable Housing Funding System

Mar 6, 2026 - The drawback of the Governor ’s proposed language is that, even if it were clear ahead of time to CDLAC and HDFC that the 50  percent set ‑aside was going to be too high in a particular year, private activity bonds could not be re ‑allocated until toward the end of the year (when CDLAC would be permitted to transfer unallocated resources to the general pool for other developers to access).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5154

The 2026-27 Budget: Food Assistance Programs

Feb 18, 2026 - Tightening rules for waivers based on economic conditions, ending California ’s statewide waiver. (The state is seeking waivers under the tighter rules on a county-by-county basis and has obtained waivers for several counties.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5126

The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Should extending the end dates for these augmentations be considered if not? Are there policy changes that could continue any recently successful initiatives? For the Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) program, the implementation status of certain components —the joint behavioral health home visits and the activity funds initiative —is unclear.
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - Until it was ended in 2011, the state had a statutory annual COLA. These COLAs generally reflected whole-grant COLAs. Whole-grant COLAs worked by applying the California Necessity Index (CNI) to the total SSI/SSP grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

Implementing California’s Child Welfare Prevention Services Program

Jan 28, 2026 - More detailed descriptions of these EBPs, along with additional information, can be found in Appendix A at the end of this publication. Many of these EBPs (or versions of them) can already be found in parts of California to varying degrees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5106

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - In January 2017, CCI was ended, effectively eliminating the 2012 MOE. In response to this elimination, a new county IHSS MOE was  established in July 2017 —referred  to as the 2017 IHSS MOE. Under the new 2017 IHSS MOE, the counties ’ share of IHSS costs were reset to roughly reflect the counties ’ share of estimated 2017 ‑18 IHSS costs based on historical county cost ‑sharing
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166