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

May 5, 2025 - Because the California Constitution does not require the state to reimburse local governments for costs to comply with federal law, disagreements have arisen over the years about whether all of the requirements in a given water quality permit are specifically required by federal law or whether they impose ad ditional requirements from the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - This, in turn, can lead to more diseased, dying, and dead trees, which can exacerbate the severity of wildfires by providing more combustible  fuels. According to the state ’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment , by 2100, the frequency of extreme wildfires burning over 25,000 acres could increase by nearly 50 percent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

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

How Has COVID-19 Affected Renters and Homeowners?

Jan 19, 2021 - We hope that by shedding light on how COVID ‑19 has added to the financial stress of renters, we can inform policy solutions to help renters through this crisis. In particular, the state and local governments will soon have to determine how to allocate recently authorized federal funding for emergency rental assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4312