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

Oct 22, 2025 - With this appropriation, General Fund support for this initiative since 2021-22 totals nearly $1  billion. The purpose of ERF is to help local communities address homeless encampments by funding housing and other services to the people living there.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

The 2025-26 Budget: Oversight of Encampment Resolution Funding

Mar 5, 2025 - Program Currently Is in Its Fourth Year of Funding … Figure  2 shows that, after an initial General Fund appropriation of $50  million in 2021-22, the Legislature has provided one-time amounts for ERF each year since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5007

The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandates—Regional Water Quality Control Boards

May 30, 2025 - (Since the current proposal is only for 2025-26, to keep the requirements of the three mandates suspended for the historic periods and avoid any future state obligation to pay for past claims, subsequent budget acts also would have to include language continuing their suspension.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5054

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

May 5, 2025 - (Since the current proposal is only for 2025-26, to keep the requirements suspended for the historic period and avoid any future state obligation to pay for past claims, subsequent budget acts also would have to include language continuing the suspension of this mandate.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - The law also specifies that for a COVID ‑19 ‑related hardship that occurs later —between September 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021 —tenants must pay at least 25  p ercent of their rent due to avoid eviction.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312

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

Feb 14, 2022 - All manufactured homes sold new on or after July  1,  1980 pay local property tax and are not subject to the annual fee.  Therefore, over time, the number of manufactured homes registered annually have declined.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535

The 2024-25 Budget: Juvenile Custodial Interrogation Mandate

May 28, 2024 - The Commission estimates that the initial state cost of claims from local governments related to the mandate between the second half of 2020-21 and 2021-22 could range between $37,000 and $1.2  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4910

The 2022-23 Budget: The Governor’s Homelessness Plan

Feb 9, 2022 - Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program 2021 ‑22 Budget Established Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BH‑CIP). The 2021‑22 budget package included $755.7 million in 2021‑22, $1.4 billion in 2022‑23, and $2.1 million in 2023‑24 to establish BH‑CIP.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Significant Funding in 2021‑22 Budget Package . As summarized in Figure 7, the 2021‑22 budget package included $9.3 billion over three years—primarily from the General Fund—for a variety of activities to respond to climate impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - For example, low ‑income households are less likely to live in homes with central air conditioning than are higher ‑income households, and may also find it challenging to pay for electricity to run the systems they have.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584