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

Oct 22, 2025 - Under the California Dream for All model, borrowers do not make any payments on their downpayment loan until the home is sold or paid off. At tha t time, they will owe the original loan amount plus a certain percentage of the increase in home value.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5082

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Housing

Apr 5, 2022 - Notably, while taking such additional steps will be important to mitigating the effects of climate change, they will come with trade ‑offs. Accordingly, it will be important for the state to consider these trade ‑offs, including ensuring that impacts on housing supply and affordability are appropriately considered as part of any actions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4584

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

Feb 9, 2022 - We suggest the Legislature consider the trade‑offs between pursuing the bridge proposal, given the time and resources required to implement a new program of this scale and supporting existing services and programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4521

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

May 12, 2021 - The economic fallout of the pandemic resulted in a decline in user fees either because public health orders prevented access to services (for example, parks and recreation services) or because government orders protected users from having services shut off due to lack of payment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4428

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

Feb 14, 2022 - Across all six rounds, the projects are estimated to reduce pollutants in the air equivalent to getting about 90,000 cars off the road for one year. Typically, the program releases a NOFA in October of each year —once proceeds from that year ’s cap ‑and ‑trade auctions are known —applications are accepted through February of each year and awards are announced annually in June.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4535