The 2020-21 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 8, 2020 - Maintains $500  Million Increase for Expanded Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. The budget authorizes the award of $500  million for the state ’s low-income housing tax credit program, which provides tax credits to builders of rental housing affordable to low-income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4278

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - These include: $750  Million to Strengthen County “Behavioral Health Continuum. ” As described earlier, the Governor proposes $750  million General Fund —made available over three years —for competitive grants to counties to purchase or renovate real estate for behavioral health facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 29, 2021 - Specifically, to expedite construction of projects that have successfully acquired some state funding, this program provides accelerated funding in lieu of waiting for state tax credits. Project Roomkey.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4468

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization [Publication Details]

Feb 23, 2021 - The Governor's proposed 2021-22 appropriation for the Board of Equalization (BOE) is $31.8 million, 30 percent higher than the amount spent in 2019-20. Due to vacancies, BOE spent just $24.5 million of its $31.3 million appropriation in 2019-20. This post discusses issues for the Legislature to consider as it decides how much to appropriate for BOE in the 2021-22 budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4385

The 2021-22 Budget: State Board of Equalization

Feb 23, 2021 - Later in 2017, the Legislature passed two laws —A B  102 and A B  131 —that transferred most of BOE ’s programs, budget, staff, and facilities to the newly created California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and Office of Tax Appeals (OTA).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4385

The 2021-22 Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Sep 23, 2021 - CalOSBA will award grants to county government agencies and nonprofit organizations that provide services to microbusinesses, who then will identify and make $2,500 grants directly to eligible microbusinesses.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4452

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Housing and Homelessness

Oct 19, 2023 - This would be the fifth consecutive year in which the budget has proposed a one-time expansion of the state ’s housing tax credit, for a total of $2.5  billion in tax credits. $100  Million One-Time Augmentation for Multifamily Housing Program (MHP).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4808

The 2022-23 Budget: Vote by Mail Ballots: Prepaid Postage

May 13, 2022 - Counties Administer Most Elections and Pay Elections Costs. As historically has been the case across the United States, counties in California administer most local, state, and federal elections pursuant to state and federal law.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4596

The 2020-21 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 11, 2020 - The MHSA places a 1  p ercent tax on incomes over $ 1  m illion and dedicates the associated revenues to mental health services, the majority of which are administered by counties. The Governor has indicated that he is interested in potential changes to the MHSA.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4152

State Assistance to Businesses in Response to COVID-19

Jan 4, 2024 - Larger Metro Regions Received More PPP ‑Related Tax Relief and State Grants. We  also examined how PPP eligible for state tax relief and SBCRG were distributed across metro area. As Figure 6 shows, per business in the area, larger metro regions tended to receive more in both types of assistance, most notably, Los Angeles, San  Francisco, and San Jose.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4824